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Creative Education and Coaching

Great Coaching is an Art.  Learning is a Life-Long Gift. 

 

To learn well and enjoy your experience, it is essential to form a great educational relationship with your coach or instructor.

 

A few things about me:

 

  • Bachelor of Arts degree with emphasis in education, San Jose State University.

  • Taught theater, English and Spanish for several years.

  • Enjoy many creative pursuits like dance, theater, stained glass, painting, scrap-booking, voice and writing.

  • Launched two companies with corresponding websites and blogs, both creatively oriented.

  • Helped to start two performing arts organizations.

  • Fluent in Spanish, writer, speaker, coach, consultant, gentle but firm, encouraging and always professional.

 

 

Allow me to borrow from Shakespeare and add a little twist, "All the world's a stage and the best speakers get the best lighting." They also get the best recall. Great speaking is hard work. Engaging and enrapturing your audience takes planning, craft and finesse. It rarely graces those who aren't wiling to perspire to inspire, and then help their audience aspire. Perfect body language wraps up the research, expertise, humor, relevant message and more into the gift package a presenter gives the audience. Yul Brynner understood the gift. Martin Gottfried knew the audience could tell which art was legit and which was a sham, or to modernize that, spam, or if it is a slam dunk for that matter. Creativity, ingenuity and impact need to be experienced, not merely observed. For the audience to experience something, they need to be engaged. They won't be engaged if the speaker doesn't appear to be.

 

Poor speakers view the podium as a safe barrier.

Great speakers view it as an obstacle to relationship.

 

 

 

Online Acting, Performance and Public Speaking Coaching

Strengthen your stage presence. Improve audition, performance or speaking skills. Maximize confidence and minimize nervousness. Engage your audience.

Be remarkable and memorable.

 

What do acting and business have in commone? Take a look at this article, then book me to show your group how to harness this amazing tool, I call mine Improoohvization! TM Brainstorming Techinique. : http://www.fastcompany.com/1576793/do-improv-comedians-make-the-best-design-thinkers?partner=rss

 

 

Online Creative Writing

Feedback and critique. Instruction, coaching and encouragement.

 

 

Online Spanish

Beginning conversation. Translation also available.

 

 

Online Personal Image

Personalized digital makeover. Personal presence coaching.

Please visit the Image Page for more services. 

 

 

 

Companies, Organizations and Schools:

American Film Institute (Los Angeles), Better Business Bureau of Southern Colorado, Wells Fargo, Honda, Suzuki, Saturn,

Thomas Nelson Publishers, Troupe America Inc., Search Parker Magazine, FAS Producciones, Side By Side Productions, IMS Productions, Cold Water Media, Makeover By Design, WomenOf.com, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Monte Vista School, Santa Cruz

City Schools, Inspire Center for the Arts, Scotts Valley School District, City of Watsonville Parks and Recreation, City of Capitola

Parks and Recreation, Entre Amigos/Between Friends Bilingual Newspaper, Cabrillo College, San Jose State University.