Stop struggling

This course is for you when you struggle with
- getting the audience's attention and keeping it
- fear of being in front of people
- losing track, blacking out
- creating dynamics in you speech
- speaking with confidence
- trying to be someone else when presenting
- being shy
- expressing yourself emotionally in front of others
- dont know what to do with your body and hands
- structuring your content

Start rehearsing

The theatre method of rehearsal
I strongly believe presenting is something everybody can learn by doing.

Storytopresent uses the theatre method of rehearsal. A hands on system for practicing and improving.

Not just tipps & tricks but concrete assignments for you to challenge yourself, practice techniques and discover your personal style of presenting step by step.

Grow your skills

We’ll work on
- finding your own personal style of presenting
- Use of body, voice, hands & space
- Being expressive / emotional
- creating dynamics in your speech
- use of vivid examples and storytelling
- how to structure your content
- creating a pitch
- how to prepare
- how to practice
- how to deal with nerves and panic reactions
- how to give a presentation online

“The perfect format and teacher to get energy, confidence and feel like presenting is fun and easy.”

Damien Y. – WOOGA

“The way Bjørn approaches public speaker training is very different from what I’ve seen before, in a good way. It’s playful, it’s very well structured and reaches the goal of making you a better speaker.”

Alexander Shestakov – WOOGA

“I really got a lot out of the course because it helped me to really see and understand my communication challenges, and then work actively to improve!”

Karyn Riegel – AKQA

“Finally a presentation workshop focused on improving you and not your slides!”

Vlad Petre – Micropreneur

Since 2009 Bjørn has been using theatre methods to train people in speaking in public. He has been giving public speaking and pitch workshops for many companies and institutions all around europe. Now it is time to put all the experiences Bjørn made in theatre and the presentation trainings into an online program and make it accessible for everybody that wants to boost their public speaking skills.

Bjørn de Wildt, born in Norway (1980) grew up in the Netherlands where he finished his theatre directing studies at the Fontys Theatre academy in Tilburg in 2008. In the Netherlands he worked as an actor for different television and theatre productions and developed immersive theatre plays for festivals and theatres. Since 2011 Bjørn lives and works in Berlin as a theatre pedagogue, coach and director. He works for theatres like the Neuköllner Oper, Theater STRAHL and Junges Deutsches Theater. His music theatre piece ‘Orpheus Optimal’ was selected for ‘Theatertreffen der Jugend’ and ‘Rampenlichter Festival’ in 2019.

1. Show your emotions

Showing an emotional connection to your content is the most important and essential thing in presenting. Showing the audience your opinion and how you feel about a topic makes even the most boring topic interesting.

4. Grow your skills

It is time to dive a little deeper into the technical sides of the skills of delivery. We will work on using your Body, your voice, your hands, the space as an Instrument to deliver your message.

2. Tell your story

Stories work because it makes it possible for us to relate to a topic. It makes abstract ideas concrete and understandable and it makes it possible to emotionally connect to the content.

5. Build your slides

We’ ll go through some do’s and don’ts in creating your slides and we will talk about how to present with slides.

3. Structure your content

In this chapter I will offer you a few possible outlines you can use to structure your presentation. By the end of this chapter you have the content of your presentation ready so we can start working further on the skills of delivery.

6. Practice your presentation

What you need to learn and practice to be ready to speak freely. How to deal with the stress and anxiety before and during your presentation