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Touchstone Training
Advocacy Skills: The Power of Performance Whether you are newly called to the bar or a seasoned litigator, this course will increase your effectiveness as a lawyer. It will improve the confidence and self-possession of the less experienced and enhance the skill-set of those at the top of their profession. The goal is not to create actors, but to create better lawyers - lawyers who win more arguments and connect as people with clients, jurors and judges Touchstone Training presents Advocacy Skills: The Power of Performance, a workshop designed to teach lawyers how to be more natural, believable and self-possessed and to implement simple, concrete techniques that will maximize your natural expressiveness. These skills will enhance the performance of all lawyers at trial, in mediation, in arbitration and in legal arguments in general. The training will enable you to take your case beyond the traditional approach to trial advocacy and give you the critical persuasive edge. The emphasis is on individual participation and learning-through-doing in a safe and relaxed atmosphere. "This course, the Power of Performance, fills a void for
training. It builds on existing advocacy courses while providing lawyers
with a unique opportunity to acquire practical skills that they can
use in different aspects of their advocacy, even in the Court of Appeal."
- - Madam Justice Newbury Many think of acting as either purely intuitive or a kind of false histrionics. In fact, an actor uses a carefully planned series of skills that, when filtered through his or her voice and body, persuade an audience to believe in a story. In advocacy, a lawyer does the same thing, and yet most legal training
ends with legal rules and procedures. How then does the lawyer translate
his or her ideas, research and facts into a live three-dimensional
event?
By borrowing verbal and non-verbal communication skills from the actor, this workshop gives lawyers the techniques to present cases with increased power, clarity and effectiveness. Just a few hours of training can dramatically improve your performance, increase your self-confidence, and heighten your ability to communicate in a persuasive manner. This program is not about how to "act" in the courtroom: judges, jurors and opposing counsel would not find this plausible. Instead you will learn how to better engage your audience and drive your theory of the case home to the judge or jury.
Sample Course Options and Fees
To arrange a course for your firm or to learn more about individual tuition, please call Camilla Tibbs on 604 709 9973 or email info@touchstonetheatre.com.
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