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The best speakers are those who give
Shift your perspective (or your mindset)—you’re there, in front of your audience, to give. Even better, you’re there to give, and you don’t want anything back. Forget your “take” mindset. Audiences respond differently to “takers” and “givers.” Why are you presenting your research? To show how much you have accomplished, or to help your fellow scientists succeed in their own research? To show your results to “advance the field”, or to advance others? To add to the list of your presentations, or to empower those in your audience so they can build their own list? To toot your own horn, or to help others shine? Once you’re clear about your…
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Speaking with confidence? Think it over
Everyone loves a confident speaker, and everyone loves to be a confident speaker. So you find all sorts of tricks of the trade—breathing techniques, power poses, eye contact, and so on—that can help you to become this sort of speaker. In many cases, though, these tricks only help you to seem more confident. But is this the only way to think about it? Let’s try a mindset shift. Let’s replace “everyone loves a confident speaker” with “everyone loves a loving speaker.” You’re a loving speaker not when you connect with your audience, but when you feel one with the audience—you and your audience are part of the same community. You’re…
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Understanding your current mindset is key to meaningful communication
Your unique mindset interacts with others’ mindsets to forge a communication bubble—it’s up to you to make the bubble pop or to make it bounce for the entire time you need it. Do you know how? First of all, you need to be aware of your mindset and be able to describe it. Mindsets, which are made-up by the constellation of your values and beliefs, shift and change over time, so it essential to keep track of these shifts and changes. You should attempt to understand others’ mindsets only when you feel you have a good understanding of your own. So, when does the bubble pop? Let me give you…
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Connect to your audience by adopting a regenerative perspective
“5 ways to connect to your audience” “6 ways to connect to your audience” “How to connect with your audience” You will find zillions of similar topics, worded differently, with varying number of “ways”. In other words, there is a lot of advice out there—in writing, in videos, in private conversations with your friends and colleagues. Specialized coaches will teach you many possible “ways” to connect, you may try some or all of them, and even convince yourself that you’re connecting. What are some of these ways? Let’s see—“Put only few words on each slide”; “Make and maintain eye contact”; “Move freely and own the room”; “Smile”; “Dress the part”;…
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Why Emaho?
Emaho is a Tibetan-Sanskrit, free-spirited exclamation from the Dzogchen teachings, the path of self-liberation that enables the discovery of one’s true nature. It expresses surprise, wonderment, a miraculous realization. Lama Surya Das explains that it cannot be correctly translated—he offers the example of “Eureka” or “Hey.” How would you render these English words in other languages? Emaho is the prelude to an immediate poetic experience—an experience that can be explored by being in the moment, it’s beyond the limitations of expression through words, and it’s similar to spontaneous enlightenment. Emaho Strategies encourages mindset shifts that lead to new realizations, perceptions, interpretations, unexpected insights—and enable us to discover our true…