Voice Coaching & Presentation Skills

Voice coaching can help a person to become more confident and to raise their profile. It can help a person gain mastery over nervous delivery, to deliver a monologue that moves an audience, or to present a conference paper. In every walk of life, the human voice is essential for communication.

Many things will affect the ability to speak well in front of others: incorrect breathing, lack of projection, indistinct speech, poor pronunciation and lack of clarity, poor posture, tightness in movement and in the jaw. All these can all be corrected.

People come to Joanna Hempel's Attic Studio with very individual speech patterns and very specific goals. The time it takes to coach a student for long-term changes in voice and speech patterns varies.

Joanna prescribes specific exercises in weekly, sometimes twice weekly sessions. These build as the student's abilitiy to concentrate increases, and as the muscle tone, flexibility and range of voice tone is developed.

Some Yoga breathing to support the voice, and movement to relax the person, are taught to assist changes in posture and to relieve tension in the body. Voice projection and clarity exercises are chosen to suit each person's needs.

Presentation Coaching: Those wanting to improve their presentation skills work with Joanna on their speech or seminar paper before it is presented to an audience. Joanna helps people with editing their work as well as with vocal and physical expression. Several regular private sessions with Joanna in the privacy of her Studio will enable a person to breathe vocal detail, assurance and a more relaxed manner into their performance piece, together with new visual effects such as gestures, placement of material, or props.

'After 8 months' voice and accent coaching with Joanna I have scored a Media job in London. She helped me with my confidence and articulation; I have overcome my nervousness' - Singaporean student with MA in Media from Sydney University

'I went from the bottom to the top of my class with my seminar presentations, after only 5 hours of presentation coaching' - Architecture student UTS

Joanna Hempel has shared her techniques as a drama and performance specialist with high school students of drama and English, with teachers of drama and English in colleges, schools and at conferences inter-state & overseas. A graduate in Psychology and English from the University of Sydney, Joanna later trained in Theatre, gaining an M.Litt at the University of New England, Armidale. With a Polish background, she combines multilingual skills with her coaching of Drama, English Language and accent coaching. For the last four years she has been director of Soirees Litteraires with its monthly talks on European and Australian culture at the NSW Writers' Centre in Rozelle. For many years Joanna was Director of the Armidale School of Youth Drama, with six of her plays for teenagers published and today studied and performed in schools in Australia, Canada and the USA. She is now writing a novel based on her family's experiences from World War I to its arrival in Australia from Europe in 1950.

Drama & Voice Coaching English Language & Accent Tuition

with Joanna Hempel

Voice Coaching & Presentation Skills

Drama & Voice Coaching
English Language & Accent Tuition