The document offers strategies for memorizing presentations without relying on notes, emphasizing the importance of knowledge and connection with the audience. It suggests breaking the speech into sections, using visual aids like mind maps, and employing the journey technique to recall important points effectively. Tips include memorizing only the beginning and end of speeches and using familiar physical locations as mental anchors for the speech content.

1. How To Remember a
Presentation
Without Notes
Presenters:
Paul Nowak, Founder & Program Director
Katya Seberson, Director of Research

2. Speech Anxiety
What is the real reason for it?
What about people who like to talk?
Talk TALK Talk

3. Why No Notes?
What about Index Cards?
Drop Your Notes and Command the Room!

4. Know Your Stuff
Confidence Comes along with Knowledge

5. First Thing To Do When Memorizing the
Speech
DON'T!!!
Try to Memorize your Speech

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7. Establish Connection
Think about what to say next
React to what the audience is Saying to you

8. What to Do Instead?
Divide up your Speech into Sections
Think through a section in your Mind
When you get Lost, as you will
Do NOT Go Back to the Beginning

9. Why Can't I Go Back and Start Fresh
Make Yourself Get back to Where you wanted to go!
Get Rid of Fear to Get Lost in your Speech

10. When you do get lost during the
presentation.....
Instead of : Oh my Gosh!!! How do I get back to
my main point?
You say to yourself: Alright, I did this before.
Here is another way of getting through.

11. Nobody Knows Your Original Plan
Nobody but you knows your original scenario :-)
Unless you are reciting Shakespeare

12. When you DO need to memorize
Only memorize the first and the last part
Tip for memorizing paragraphs by heart.
When memorizing verse / poetry

13. Using a Mind Map
Begin with the main idea
Define main ideas, structure of your speech
Pick the right keywords
Use as many images as you can
Re-Draw your Mind Map

14. Use as Many Images as You Can

15. Record it
For Auditory Learners
Record your Speech
and Play it back
Listening to your Own Voice

16. Journey Technique

17. How can I begin?
Create a journey
Must be very familiar with it
Crucial for this system
Could be your room
Your Garden
Your Kitchen

18. Sample Journeys
Student:
Trip to your University
Walking Around the Campus
Student Bar
Small City:
Trip around town center
Market Square
Butchers Window

19. More Sample Journeys
Computer Geek:
Computer Game
for business professionals:
a trip to work, stop at the coffee shop, subway
or a car

20. Dressing your Journey
First pick your room.
Go to the Room physically
Identify the room Starting Point ( Defining
Feature)
Walk through the objects in your room and lock
in the sequence

21. Example of a Speech
1. A story about her birth
2. A funny incident at school
3. What happened when the family went camping
4. Her first date
5. How she met her future husband at University
6. A joke about husbands and housework. B Living
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22. Your Route
1. Your bedroom
2. Your bathroom
3. On the stairs
4. In the kitchen
5. On your front drive
6. Outside your neighbour's house

23. In your Bedroom
Hear baby Crying
Get Disturbed
Imagine Vividly

24. In Your Bathroom
Headmistress

25. On the Stairs
Huge Tent

26. In the Kitchen
Her first Boyfriend

27. On your Front Drive
Your Son-in-Law

28. Outside your Neighbour's House

29. When you make a speech
1. Make the mental journey
2. All the important points will spring into your mind
3. In the right sequence

30. Thanks for Attending!
Contact Information:
Katya Seberson
katya@irisreading.com
Paul Nowak
pnowak@irisreading.com