Keep your talk fresh – Techniques for Scientific Storytelling and Presentations
Contents
- Position the research with a meaningful and relevant narrative
- Tailor the story to the audience
- Begin with a strong opening to get the audience involved
- Create clear and identifiable characters and environment
- Build suspense with the narrative and move towards a clear aim
- Economize language and get to the point
- Use active language and identify key points
- Craft the story and build towards a dynamic conclusion
Learning Goals
Throughout the workshop, participants learn narrative techniques, practice telling stories and integrate these techniques into their talk.
The seminar provides participants the opportunity to connect a narrative to their core research, build the story, create suspense and anchor points of reference throughout the talk with their story. Additionally, they will learn to develop a protagonist and learn how to "chunk" or segment units of action in the talk.
Methods
- interactive activities
- free-speaking exercises
- trainer lecture
- plenum discussion
- course reader
- plenum presentation
- tailored trainer and group feedback
Lecturers
Ric Oquita
Ric Oquita's areas of expertise are communication and presentation techniques to enable academics to deliver persuasive and motivating oral presentations at international conferences, meetings and lectures. He provides customized support to each and every participant according to individual needs in a proactive environment, so that speakers can prepare exciting and effective presentations and accurately formulate the central theme and key messages. With his extensive and diverse theater background, Ric Oquita offers techniques to strengthen and support effective speaking, “hand-crafted” text, physical training and interpersonal communication skills. He is a classically trained actor, singer and dancer and holds degrees in Applied Theater Studies from the University of Southern California (Bachelor of Fine Arts) and Cornell University (Master of Fine Arts).
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Costs
| PhD UP | 25 € |
| Postdoc UP/PNB* | 37.5 € |
| Partner institutions | 140 € |
| Extern | 170 € |