3 P'S Skills achieved by project Permaculture Presentation Profesonial I explored several professional presentation techniques utilizing laptop and projector technology, I found someone to train me up in Powerpoint and played with and prepared a PowerPoint presentation for a Permaculture evening , but decided it was to stiff and formal and that audience participation was a better way of getting the message across. The skills I aquired by working on this project are as follows: Powerpoinlt Organisation marketing and presentation of a themed event. Interaction with working with a large group of people.
Personel In terms of my personel growth I managed to over come some major personel boundries, I used TFT to over come fear of public speaking ,and also sectioned the event into bite size segments to give me breathing space and make the evening more varied for the audience. I needed to be able to relax and the enjoy the experinece and have fun in order to trsnamsit that vibe to the audience, people learn better when they have fun. Here's what I achieved: Pushing my boundries by public speaking in front of 45 people. Organising an event with permaculture based projects Presentation of information in a fun informative way Helping to pull people together through skill shares Having fun presenting the event
Project When I embarked on this project I wasn't sure how it was going to flow,So I started to explore formal ways of presenation: Power point or standing up and talking. I could see this was going to be too ridgide a way of presentation and would not fully stretch me or the audience. I wanted an evening which people would come away from feeling inspired by, would understand that Permaculture is a design system and would them go on to try permaculture for them selves. By exploring different methods, stimulation of the senses and involvment of the audience I built an evening of informative interactive fun. Presenting my self as a pubic speaking was huge for me ,I have real issues with public speaking so with this in mind I set about looking at ways to make the evening interesting but also help with my issues. I did EFT on my self to manage my fear and also organised other speakers and activities including audience participation to break up the evening so that I wasn't centre stage all the time ,small slow steps I still had to talk but it wasn't so frighting. This all worked well and the evening turned out to be a good mix of activity from the audience, speakers and myself. I realy enjoyed presenting it and had no nerves at all, we had a laugh all the away through, and I showed I could take control of the group when they looked a bit glazed I had them all jumping up and down to wake them up. This has inspired me to try new angles to giving talks and presentations, one of my projects is teaching techniques that involves creative fun and action learning. The open forum worked particularly well , ideas started to flow from people on how they could incorerperate permaculture into thier lives and how easy it could be, in fact we had to stop the session as it flowed in to the skills section. I have become more involved with people with special needs and this has opened up another world veiwing the world from a different angle, I have explored this in the Weaving the Web evenings using different mediums like art and music, I would like to explore this area more for future my teaching projects.
Challenges There were a few problems one of the guest speakers had family problems and said she wouldnt be able to stay long, as her talk was towards the end I had to think on my toes and tweek the format so that her talk was further up the list. I changed the talk around to accomodate this. I also found that by using printed priciple and ethics cards and pictures as visual prompt props rather than the notes worked better as the presentation flowed beter. Two of the skill demonstators were late and another one said she wouldnt be able to stay untill the end. By keeping calm and not panicking I resolved all issues; Moving the speaker to the begining of the evening and reorganising my talk. I helped the skills people set up so that they were ready on time. The other skills person who couldn't stay ended up staying to the end and enjoying herself.