Maya Arad-Yasaur She is a valued creator whose plays have been performed on stages around the world and in Israel. And starting this year, she is also a lecturer in drama as part of undergraduate studies in theater at the kibbutzim seminary.
Maya is also a graduate of the January 2014 graduation of the public speaking school. This is what she wrote to us ten years later:
Dear Guy,
In 2014 I came to you, a beginning playwright, who does all possible detours to avoid speaking in front of an audience: in high school I refused to lecture the class about
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Biotope work. I got a 100 for the work, but the final grade was a weighting of the work and the lecture that wasn't there (70). In the army I was required to lecture my colleagues about new equipment we received, so I refused and stayed on Saturday. Prices you can live with, right? At least that's what I thought to myself, and continued to avoid. and avoid And not to go near the places where I might be forced into that obviously unbearable state where all words are forgotten by me, my mind is covered in foggy pulp, and my vocal cords declare a strike.
It is very common in the theater that after the plays there is a conversation between the creators and the audience, so when I started to succeed and was asked to go on stage and talk to my audience - I realized that there was a problem here. At first I avoided - what I knew how to do best. Then I found myself again and again sitting on a stage in front of a small or large audience, cutting things short, twisting in a chair. "Speak louder!" Someone always shouted. "We don't hear!"……So I signed up for your course.
During the ten years that have passed since I finished the course, I have sat on stages in Israel and around the world and talked about my work quite a bit, in Hebrew and English. The first few times, I buried in my pocket a card with three chapter heads written on it, always "in front of me", like some kind of tranquilizer. Little by little I broke up with her too. After years of abstinence - today I even teach; Just standing in front of a class of students and talking about what I know best. And I even enjoy it. So thank you!
Good evening everyone!
No one believed me that I had a crazy fear of crowds. People thought I was making plays because I was CEO and I spoke confidently, but inside it was difficult on other levels. For my 40th birthday I decided to buy myself the confidence to stand in front of an audience with confidence. When I achieved it at the end of the course, I set a new standard for myself - to be able to enjoy myself in front of any audience. Two years later I can say that I am already 90% there.
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