Potsdam Graduate School: Workshop "Keep your talk fresh – Techniques for Scientific Storytelling and Presentations"

This is an activity-based workshop, led by a theatre professional, whose expertise is in eliciting the researchers’ narrative, identifying the speaker's authenticity as a storyteller and supporting the speaker to effectively communicate the importance and relevance of the work and the core message in the talk.

Contents:
- Position the research with a meaningful and relevant narrative
- Tailor the story to the audience
- Begin with a strong opening to get the audience involved
- Create clear and identifiable characters and environment
- Build suspense with the narrative and move towards a clear aim
- Economize language and get to the point
- Use active language and identify key points
- Craft the story and build towards a dynamic conclusion
- Learning Goals

Throughout the workshop, participants learn narrative techniques, practice telling stories and integrate these techniques into their talk. The seminar provides participants the opportunity to connect a narrative to their core research, build the story, create suspense and anchor points of reference throughout the talk with their story. Additionally, they will learn to develop a protagonist and learn how to "chunk" or segment units of action in the talk.