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Logan Murray is a working stand up, writer, award nominated director and comic actor who has been making a living as a comedian since 1984. He has taught people from as far West as Colorado and as far East as the Philippines. He has a master’s degree in Stand Up Comedy and is the author of the highly acclaimed, best selling 'Teach Yourself - Stand up comedy'. People who have been taught by Logan Murray have gone on to win every major comedy award, including The Perrier, Channel 4’s ‘So You Think You’re Funny’, ‘Chortle Awards’, ‘Funny Women’ ‘Leicester Mercury Comedy Award' and 'Laughing Horse New Act of the Year’.
 Many graduates from the workshops not only work now as professional comedians all around the World, but they also have become household names, panel show regulars, sitcom actors, TV and radio writers and even bone fide Film Stars! 
It all adds up to simply the best trainer in the comedy industry!
www.loganmurray.com

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         LOGAN MURRAY PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOP
€75 - (Incl 21% IVA and booking fee)
TOTAL SELL OUT!!!!

AMAZING VENUE CONFIRMED !!
Super Central (102 Bailen), 175m2 main room in Casa Murcia that will offer everything required for the public speaking workshopping event of the year! places are disappearing fast time to get on!!!

What Logan Murray is first and foremost is a brilliant communicator and teacher. His services are as much in demand for a range of other training than comedy and one of his most effective and in demand products are his public speaking workshops. 

We have asked him and pleaded with him for a crisis priced workshop in public speaking normally reserved for corporate heavy weights like IBM when it is much more expensive. We have no hesitation in saying if you use or need public speaking in your professional career for whatever reason then this may be the most invaluable opportunity to understand and improve those skills. Places are limited to just 16 people!!! Full details below.

COURSE CONTENT - PUBLIC SPEAKING AND PRESENTATION WORKSHOP:  

A three hour workshop for up to sixteen people.

The session can be broken down into six basic areas
1) YOUR NATURAL VOICE
Why is using your natural voice important?
Because it ‘grounds’ us, it minimises physical tension, it slows down our rhythm and stops us gabbling and because it is much better to communicate as yourself.
The concept of the ‘natural voice’ vs the tense ‘head’ voice that most of us use.
How will use of your normal vocal range and speech rhythm help you in your role?

This workshop is in two halves:

1) Uncovering your natural voice

2) Deploying it to trigger our body into give off less defensive signals; to create a sense of more confidence and create a better effect in presentations.


VOCAL METHOD: Simple Kynasthetic Awareness Exercises

2) WHERE WE ARE NOW AND WHERE WE WANT TO GET TO

Two main problems that people face:
-          Physical Stress

-          That nagging feeling that being ourselves is not enough

People present behind a mask (playing at being grown ups).

But this isn’t actually effective. (Why? Because you are trying to impersonate someone else - not being yourself. This can alienate your listeners).


3) PRACTICAL BODY TACTICS

Breathing from the right place: Diaphragmatic, not Inter-Costal!

Eliminating body language faux pas ( hunched shoulders, self hugging, displacement activities)

Exercises:        Some physical floor work involving us breathing and vocalising

                        Group Status exercises to examine our strengths and weaknesses

Participants will learn how all these relate to voice and how we present in person


*WHAT PARTICIPANTS WILL NEED:

1) Comfortable clothes. Definitely only trousers or jeans, as we will be lying on the floor for some of the time with our knees raised. No skirts, kilts or togas!

2) Perhaps a jumper that they don’t mind lying on.

3) An inch to an inch and a half thick paperback that they can rest their head on.


4) UNLEARNING BAD HABITS

Recognising the bad habits we’ve gotten into over the years.

Remember! If it doesn’t add anything, then it distracts the audience.

Louder doesn’t always mean clearer (especially with a microphone).

We don’t have to rattle off like machine guns – thinking time conveys messages just as much as sentences.

Examples:

Telling an audience that something is important, whilst you unconsciously edge backwards is mixing your messages.

Leaning into an audience can convey over-eagerness

Staring above the listeners’ heads for the entire performance may alienate them.

5) CORNERSTONES OF GOOD PRESENTING

How to appear confident, but not arrogant

Create the illusion that you are having a conversation with the audience, it’s just that you’re the only one talking.

There are simple techniques to include the group, so you are talking TO them, not AT them.

Learn voice and body techniques that allow you to interact with strangers as if they are friends.

6) CLOSE

Psychological and emotional states can come out of physical postures, so let’s eliminate the things getting in our way.

Exercise: A simple demonstration from everyone showing how much information the can communicate with very little ‘script’

When: Monday - October 7  **7.30pm - 10-30pm**  
Where: Venue confirmed!! CASA MURCIA Their very big room all to urselves
Tickets: €75 (includes booking fee and 21% IVA)
Presales: BUY ONLINE HERE!!!!  or WRITE TO mail@comedyinspain.com for details to make a direct transfer

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VENUE: CASA MURCIA

2009 Comedy Workshop with Logan

 

BELOW  A VIDEO OF REACTION FROM A PREVIOUS COMEDY WORKSHOP WITH LOGAN WE HOSTED