Friday, January 18, 2008

Book - highly recommended

Presence by Patsy Rodenburg. Excellent, with lots of insights and exercises and new ways to think about speech and direction of attention. Written for self help.

I couldn't disagree more with her idea of 'energy' which permeats the book but if I substitute 'attention', 'enthusiasm', 'engagement', then it is fine. She has an unrivalled experience of speech coaching all sorts of people. Check out her website.
I have previously recommended the tapes of 'Right to Speak'. She has a nice voice!

Maybe use the book as a framework for self - help groups?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Patsy Rodenburg was on Woman's Hour this morning promoting the book:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/03/2008_07_wed.shtml