The London Communication Experience
Not so much a retreat, more an urban communication assault course
The London Communication Experience incorporates the best communication experiences London has to offer together with exceptional training and facilitation to provide five packed days of personal transformation that will leave the communication abilities of all participants changed forever.
Where to Guvnor?
Engaging your people
Even in the best of times, your ability to continuously engage and re-engage others is key to the smooth functioning of your team, organisation or even population, whether you have 10, 100 or 100,000 employees... or millions of citizens
The larger your 'organisation' becomes, by necessity, its lines of communication get stretched... sometimes to breaking point. Your need to keep a finger on the pulse of business, of innovation, of consensus or the bottom line is obvious, but keeping connected to the heart of your people is vital.
The importance of that connection can sometimes be relegated, because people, unlike fixed systems and processes, can be more difficult and emotional to control, becoming disengaged, unpredictable, and in worst case scenarios, begin to work against you.
For most professional people, the ability to communicate effectively amounts to the belief that others are able to understand what they say, and that they're able to deliver a presentation without sending the audience to sleep. If that's your aim, then we've several other brilliantly interactive and satisfying workshops you can attend for less time and a lot less investment.
The London Experience
Engaging Communication, 'The London Experience' has been created to begin addressing the needs of those who realise that engagement is more than simply communicating information. If you've done room-based, Power-Pointed communications training 'to death' and are now looking for the next level of personal and professional 'development', then the 'London Experience' is for you .Join us for five days and discover how to develop engaging communication skills in the most engaging capital city in the world. We will work with you in some of the most iconic locations and intriguing environments in London, as we deliver probably the best experiential development in communication skills currently available anywhere.
The challenges of climbing mountains and white water rafting are all very well and have a place in learning and development... but not with us. Our take on development is more about those internal psychological and emotional barriers which prevent us from being all we might be.
You will certainly be asked to attempt activities outside you normal experience, they may be emotionally or physically difficult and you may want to avoid them... that will be your choice...
You will be exposed to Challenging Experiences
The London Experience exposes you to experiences, which although challenging, are designed to promote a shift in your perception of who you are and how you might increase your ability to engage others in the future.If you want to go beyond the accepted norms of 'training', if you want to begin to explore, your absolute potential to not only 'create' yourself, but also to guide others as an inspirational, highly motivated and passionate communicator, our view is that discovering the truth about who you are in the world, and what you might bring to the table, is key.
'Engaging Communication' metaphorically throws you to the lions, by exposing you to a series of no risk, no reward 'personal' challenges in the real world in real time, with the smallest of safety nets.
You can take the first steps to discovering new aspects of yourself by joining the 'London Experience' journey with us. This journey is a catalyst for transformational change and as such, is not to be entered lightly or with scepticism youre either in for the ride or out. Talking of rides, the group will chauffeured between venues in dedicated London black cabs.
If you've decided to take a serious look at yourself in relation to who you are and how you are presently, and, in the final analysis, who and how you want to be in the future, Engaging Communication, 'The London Experience' is for you.
The London Communication Experience Objectives
The areas we will be focusing on are: -
- Personal Impact; who are you and what do you bring?
What are you saying, when you say nothing at all?
The Power of Storytelling and voice production
Creating the impact you choose
Engaging performance
Confidence, Confidence, Confidence - What already works about you?
Our central and guiding focus is to constantly reinforce your confidence by concentrating on what works about you.
Where to Guvnor?
Our central and guiding focus is to constantly reinforce your confidence by concentrating on what works about you.
And so it begins...
Day 1: Who are you? And what are you saying when you say nothing at all?
Breakfast Session: Introductions, context and shape of the week distribute two cameras to 1st days pair.
Travel to Tate Modern and 'get to know time'
What do you bring to the table? Mirror, Mirror; a defining moment; personal presentation of song, prose or poem - DVD 360 feedback
Lunch at Tate Modern
Into the Arena of the Tate Modern for smallest change performances Feedback, then 6pm dinner at the Oxo Tower
Eve: The Elizabethan George Inn for Body language workshop
Day 2: AM: Animal Magic PM: Engaging Voices
Breakfast and overnight thoughts and outline for the day
To finalise our work with you on non verbal engagement... Why are some animals more engaging to humans than others?
We'll begin the day at London Zoo, exploring the relationship between animal physicality and engagement. In pairs you'll observe the physicality of two animals. Each partner should identify the animal whose physicality, they feel matches their partner's. The other animal should be your individual choice and represent the quality most engaging to you. The challenge for each person is to study both animals and embody their physicality, recreating both separately in a piece of group work to be videoed.
The human greeting ritual has its roots in our ancient survival instincts.
In the moment an animal spots another there is an instinctive split second decision to be made by both parties... fight or flight.
What is the purpose of the ability to engage? Why do we need it? To appreciate this we need to understand the evolutionary development of that first moment of contact. Over millions of years animals have developed an instinct, essential for survival. In humans this instinct has evolved into the greeting ritual.
Without the ability to recognise a potential mate or a potential predator no animal would last long.
An animal's instinct is activated the nano-second it spots another creature and the information gathered allows each to make the decision which will ensure survival or death. The stakes may not be so high for humans in everyday life; however, the instinct of flight or fight still persists and has to be dealt with, which is why we need "our rules of engagement".
Lunch, then travel to Engaging voices workshop
Voice workshop - The Roundhouse, Camden
Delegates explore aspects of the voice and how to make best use of their individual instrument. Theyll then record commercials and/or piece of text, followed by a session where theyll create new lyrics to old tunes and receive coaching for delivery in the evening.
Dinner in Soho
Eve: Into the Arena - Presentation of your work either sung or spoken at a private Karaoke bar in Islington or Soho.
Day 3: The power to engage through story
Breakfast: overnight thoughts and outline of the day Allocate cameras to 3rd pair. The power of story-telling: Structure and dynamics
Venue: Shakespeare's Globe
Guided story telling tour followed by IF story telling workshop in the balcony room.
Lunch: at the Globe
Prepare Soap Box delivery
'Into the Arena' - Soap Box on the South Bank:
Engaging the Great Unwashed
Dinner at the Globe
PM Attend a Shakespeare play at the globe
Day 4: The Rhythm of Engagement
Into the lion's Den.
Breakfast and overnight thoughts. Show video clip and introduce Drumming company + allocate cameras to final pair.
Travel to Covent Garden Tristan Bates Theatre. The drummerama of everyday life as a leader. How do you inspire teams? Creating something, from nothing through rhythm.
Lunch in China Towns worst-mannered restaurant (a lesson in behaviour management)
Into the Arena - Then, in two teams, plan and film a dramadoc of the story of your personal journey in the comms capital of the world,
Dinner at Porters Pie Shop in Covent Garden,
Eve: Presentation production prep with facilitators.
Day 5: Who are you now?
Breakfast: Overnight thoughts: Inspirational leaders on DVD. Then until 11am with facilitators working on presentations.
2 x 30 minute personally focused team presentations delivered at The Screen on the Green, Islington.
Lunch at Carluccios, Islington.
Final session in Red Room IF: Who are you now and where next?
Workshop ends
Fee includes development costs, accommodation, food*, inter-venue travel, location costs, venue hire, external facilitator fees, equipment hire and home team logistical support.
*Group Breakfast, lunch and dinner (does not include alcohol).
Fee does not include travel to, or from original destination to London central venue.
The London Experience - Logistics
Facilitated days begin at 7.30 am and end at 9pm depending on the content of the day.
