Stage Fright Away

General information

Millions of adults suffer from shyness, anxiety and even panic disorders that affect their ability to speak to groups of people (sometimes just to one other person).
Everyday life can be very challenging, more than most people realise.
There is the dreadful fear of particular events, the thought of the panic and the physical symptoms which can be all the more difficult when you feel like no one else understands what’s going on.

There are certain stigmas that society has created for anxiety sufferers, but thankfully there are even more opportunities to overcome anxiety.

Here at StageFrightAway we offer many ways for people with anxiety to help them selves.

We understand just how annoying “calm down” is. The last thing that will calm down an anxious person is telling them “calm down.” In fact, it may make the situation worse. Some research suggests that trying to calm oneself during the middle of an anxiety attack can actually increase the original emotional response in the moment. As a result, by trying not to be afraid, the sufferer may experience a more intensified reaction to what’s making them fearful.

Instead of encouraging someone with anxiety to calm down, we are offering support, we have a lot of understanding. We know it’s a bad strategy to tell someone to ‘calm down’ — mostly because it doesn’t help you to understand how you can do that. If you could calm down, you would — it’s a very simplistic view of emotion. A better strategy would be asking questions like ‘What’s making you feel this way?’ By voicing it, by gaining a deeper understanding of how you feel and by using proven techniques to change the way you feel, you can deal with it in a much more effective way.

And when you have learned how to regain your calm and presence when speaking or presenting; the next step is to learn how to build your stage presence and your public speaking skills.

When you are on stage it's very important to have a strategy and techniques to help you present confidently, to help you structure your talk, to help you share your information in a way that all of the audience engage with and understand.