Bodily Language & Gestures: Your body speaks

VocalWarm-up

Practice this daily for better

& well-developed voice.

Find your balance.

Spine Roll

Loosen Shoulders

Make contact with your breath.

Hand on stomach, blow breath out in a strong, steady, continuous stream. Each time you recover the breath,

notice the expansion in the stomach area 3x

Hand still on stomach, say hah, hah, hah 3x

Stretch to open ribs

Hum for 1 minute

Loosen Jaw.

Chew. Place two fingers between the teeth and say goo gah, gee gah, gay gah. Remove fingers and say this again retaining the sense of space in the mouth.

Flutter through lips.

Billy Buttons bought a big bunch of beautiful bananas.

Have a big yawn, stretch and say hey or hi.

Imagine you are bouncing a ball with your hand and say

huh huh.

Raise hands while reading a short text.

Bakit puro na lang kami, sila na nga ang tumulong eh.

Tinulungan nila ako, pinagtanggol nila ako

kaya ito ang tamang oraspara ipagtanggol ko sila.

Hindi nila ito deserve,

Research shows that more than half of all human communication takes

place nonverbally

time attention

interesting informative memorable

Gestures:Your body speaks

Action speaks louder than ______.

Why Gestures?The Principle of Empathy

& Albert Mehrabian

7%-38%-55% Rule7%-38%-55% Rule

Eye Contactforget yourself and see

the beauty of your audience.

Why eye contact?Eye Contact Builds Rapport &

Eye Contact Gives Immediate Feedback

How to eye contact?TOASTMASTERS

•Hold to one’s eye for 3-4 minutes

PREFERED

•Hold as long as possible until an act of ‘acknowledgement’ is done then move to the next

Possible problems

1staring frown &

furrowsbeing brave

enough

2 3

Posturealways make that first

impression a powerful one

Comfortable Authoritarian

How to posture?

Possible problems

1leaning to one

sidemoving around & rocking back

& forth

turning your back on the

audience while you speak.

2 3

Hand GesturesTo be effective, a speaker’s gestures

must be purposeful

Your hands can be marvelous tools of communication when you speak. But

many inexperienced speakers are unsure what to do with their hands.

Why hand gestures?Clarify and support your words. Gestures

strengthen the audience’s understanding of your verbal message.

Why hand gestures?Dramatize your ideas. Together with what

you say, gestures help paint vivid pictures in your listeners’ minds.

Why hand gestures?Help dissipate nervous tension. Purposeful gestures are a good outlet for the nervous

energy inherent in a speaking situation.

Why hand gestures?Function as visual aids. Gestures enhance

audience attentiveness and retention.

Why hand gestures?Stimulate audience participation. Gestures

help you indicate the response you seek from your listeners.

Types of Gestures

DDescriptive

clarify or enhance a verbal message

E P SEmphaticunderscore & emote what’s

being said.

Promptingto help evoke a

desired response from the audience

Suggestiveare symbols of

ideas and emotions.

Possible problems

1Hands on

HipsCrossed

ArmsHands

crossed in front

2 3

Possible problems

4Hands

joined in the back

Hands in pockets

Circular moving hands

5 6

Facial Expression

your face speaks ofa thousand words.

1

2 3 4

5 6 7

Possible problems

1lip-locked move-vy

eyesSquished

lips

2 3

As speakers, we need to remember that much of our message is not just in our

words, but also in our visual presentation

Gestures:Your body speaks

References:http://www.toastmasters.org/http://www.artofcommunicating.com.au/