Voice Training

Grow your voice – Grow Your Audience.

• Do you appear confident and competent as you speak?
• Do you sound inviting and engaging?
• Does your audience experience that you care both about your message and about them?
• Does your voice help to move and transform your audiences for the better?

There are only two things that can interfere with your ability to answer yes to all three these questions: tension in your body and fear in your heart. When your body knows what to do, it can help you control your feelings and focus your mind.

As with training for a marathon, your body needs to unlearn bad habits and relearn new ones so that speaking invitingly and confidently becomes automatic.

The Grow your Voice Training course is designed to help you automatically

• Find a good posture that helps you relax and communicate confidence.
•  Use your breath to control your voice and your nerves.
•  Produce a rich warm voice that invites attention and instils trust.
•   Shape sounds skilfully so that every word is heard without strain.
•   Create emotional engagement by enticing the listener to keep on listening.
•   Draw the audience into your world so that they gain new insight into their own.

I enjoyed the method of teaching. Found myself very relaxed and in a space that made me comfortable. Petro is very warm and her tone of voice encourages. – Melaine Sukhraj, Personal assistant

For as long as I can remember I didn’t like hearing my recorded voice and cringed every time I did. Well embarking on the journey with you about finding my true voice has shown me that indeed, it wasn’t my real voice, the one that sits deep inside and resonates from a completely different space – quite literally in the body actually. I cherish the Eliza Doolittle moment I had in one of our sessions when suddenly you managed to coax that voice out of me and I could hear it for the first time. I am incredibly grateful as it helps increase the quality of the online courses I’m busy producing. - Bettina Horvath Marketing Ninja on Facebook

Click here for Bettina’s short before and after recordings
Before
After

Petro Janse van Vuuren (PhD) has been training and coaching voice work for the last 18 years, both as a trainer of actors and presentation-skills teacher. She honed her skills first as school drama teacher and then as actor and director at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
She has taught confident voice to a variety of people, including

• Speakers who want to inspire their audience to lasting transformation
• Executives who want to lead organisations with charisma and impact
• Sales people who wanted to entice customers to buy.
• Actors who wanted to move their audiences to both tears and laughter •    Preachers and ministers who needed to speak with authority and compassion. Rap artists who needed lang longe and confidence to sell their CD’s
• Radio DJs who wanted to engage their audiences to keep on listening.

2 Sessions Quick fix:

Come prepared with a talk or presentation and we can zoom in on the area where you need it most.
Investment:
Playing Mantis venue: - R950
Venue of your choice: – R950 + R250 per session

4 Session General Workout:

We give you a general workout for all 4 systems of voice production getting the voice alighted and working as a whole.
Investment:
Playing Mantis venue: - R1650
Venue of your choice: – R1650 + R250 per session

6 Sessions Integrated Over hall:

We work on the entire voice integrating all the different systems for a complete vocal makeover.
Investment:
Playing Mantis venue: - R2350
Venue of your choice: – R2350 + R250 per session

Full Circle:

This is the 6 week overall with the added bonus of me coaching you through your next high stakes presentation on sight with me there to support you through it.
Investment:
Playing Mantis venue: - R2950
Venue of your choice: – R2950 + R250 per session

* All the packages come with a manual and training CD.
* Group sessions can also be booked – price will vary depending on group size.

Manual and CD also sold separately

Contact Petro on 0828282259 or petro@playingmantis.net for more information.