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How Authentic Speaking can Heal Negative Patterns

How Authentic Speaking can Heal Negative Patterns

by Doreen Downing | Feb 20, 2010 | Book Reviews, Find Your Voice Blog, Leadership and Public Speaking

What is Authentic Speaking?   A workshop participant who attended Leadership Presence:  How to Inspire Groups to Action wrote this note to me and my training partner, Lee Glickstein, founder of Speaking Circles International. “I want to say a huge thank you...

Essential Being: a guide for “Taking the risk of being yourself”

by Doreen Downing | Jan 27, 2010 | Book Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars from Amazon.com Essential Being: a guide for “Taking the risk of being yourself”, January 17, 2010 By Michael F. Bouscaren Doreen Downing’s “Essential Speaking” delivers practical tools from many perspectives to release...
Praise for Essential Speaking: The 7-Step Guide to Finding Your Real Voice

Praise for Essential Speaking: The 7-Step Guide to Finding Your Real Voice

by Doreen Downing | Sep 17, 2009 | Book Reviews, Find Your Voice Blog

More Praise for Essential Speaking I found Essential Speaking: The 7-Step Guide to Finding Your Real Voice, by Doreen Downing to be a wonderful book—ostensibly about public speaking, but also about learning how to be true to yourself while in the presence of people...

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