How to Give A Presentation
A Saturday Morning Seminar for Student Midwives
How to give a presentation that finds an angle you’re truly interested in and a story you want to tell
Zoom Details
Ellie Durant (she/her) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: How to Give A Presentation: A Saturday Morning Seminar
Time: Jun 11, 2022 11:00 AM London
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Giving presentations that have an angle you’re truly interested in and a story you want to tell
I’ve presented at quite a few conferences and often feel out of my depth, especially when I’m sharing a stage with professionals with many years of experience or far higher academic credentials than me. There are a few ideas I come back to. One is that there are different personality types out there. Some of us are not naturally drawn to showing our work to big groups. If this is you, you may feel ‘why would anyone want to hear from me?’ and that by asking you to stand up in a packed room, you’re being asked to change your nature. The good news is that in my experience, the work you produce will often be thoughtful, interesting and considered from many angles, even if you need a bit of a push to share it. It may help to see it as an occasion where you’re choosing to be generous and share your thoughts with the audience. Conversely, if you are someone who is excited to share what you’ve found, that can be awesome, but if you get taken by surprise by a question from your audience, or get a slightly lower grade than you expected you can get a vulnerability hangover which can be difficult to recover from. As I grew up in an extroverted household, but am basically an introvert, I am a mix between the two extremes, and my issue is often an internal battle between my conditioned and natural personalities! Whatever your feelings about presenting, this seminar will be about exploring what you feel comfortable sharing and I’d love to think your strategy through with you.
What I want to do is talk you through the most important insights I had while writing my current book.
I also want to hear from student midwives and newly qualified midwives, there will be loads of excellent social support and extra useful information you all have. Access course student welcome too by the way, as my friend midwife Hana Young (from Mamma Unexpected) has said many times ‘my access course was harder than my midwifery degree’.
We’ll do about an hour and then you can get back to your Saturday.