Exercises by Chapter in Order of Appearance - Play the Part: Master Body Signals to Connect and Communicate for Business Success - Gina Barnett

Play the Part: Master Body Signals to Connect and Communicate for Business Success - Gina Barnett (2015)

APPENDIX A. Exercises by Chapter in Order of Appearance

Chapter 1: Use Your Head

✵ Happy/Sad Mouth

✵ Sweet Apricot: Jaw Relax

✵ Head Hinge

✵ Broken Bridge

✵ Wet Dog

✵ Head Hinge with Voice

✵ Reverse Turtle Neck

✵ Star Eyes

✵ Just an Inch!

✵ Habit Breaker

✵ Mirror Talk

✵ Elephant Ears

✵ Inner Ear

✵ Take a Thought for a Walk

✵ Word Move

✵ Out Loud

✵ Judge’s Journal

✵ Judge’s Journal Replies

✵ Standing O

Chapter 2: Have a Heart

✵ Embodied Aspiration

✵ Embodied Ick

✵ The List of You

✵ The List of Your Nemesis

✵ Open Heart

✵ Right Words

✵ Tune In

✵ Stressful or Soothing

✵ Wet Dog Talking

✵ Tone Talk

✵ Subtle Subtext

✵ Subtle Text

✵ Hear Yourself

✵ Lazy Lips Workout

✵ Filler Be Gone!

✵ Fan Arms

✵ The Butterfly

✵ Weighted Neck Stretch

✵ Belly Breath

✵ Corner Speak

✵ 10-Second Breath

✵ Abdomen Vibrate

✵ Chest Vibrate

✵ Torso Vibrate

✵ Breath with Arm Thrust

✵ Get the Peanut Butter Off

✵ Hand Rest

✵ Hand Dance

✵ Hand Watch

✵ Body Scan

✵ Bag of Sand

Chapter 3: Gut Smarts

✵ Soft Belly

✵ Belly Imagine

✵ Belly Feel

✵ Tuning in to the Tuned Out

Chapter 4: Standing Tall

✵ Beach Walk

✵ Office Walk

✵ Seated Pelvic Tilt

✵ Belly Dance

✵ Open Hips

✵ Take a Thought for a Dance

✵ Feeling Feet

✵ Centering

✵ Launch

✵ Long Step/Short Step

✵ Sitting Tall

✵ Walk Copy

✵ Ministry of Silly Walks

Chapter 5: Center of Unconscious Gravity

✵ Center Control Towers

✵ Happy Shoulders/Sad Hips

✵ Happy Shoulders/Sad Feet While Presenting

✵ Lions, Tigers, Bears, … and Puppies

✵ Your Inner Animal

✵ Take It All In

✵ Focus On

✵ Focus On While Presenting

✵ Safe-Place Sense Memory

Chapter 6: Presence

✵ The Flow: A Toe in the Stream

✵ The Flow: Body Now

✵ The Flow: Mind Now

✵ The Seed of Failure

✵ What Did Failure Grow?

✵ Failure’s Offspring

✵ What If … ?

✵ Write Your Hero a Letter

✵ Be Your Hero

Chapter 7: Designing Messages to Increase Presence

✵ Purpose and Audience

✵ What’s the Title?

✵ Detail the Key Messages

✵ Metaphor/Simile Practice

Chapter 8: Presentation or Conversation? The Style of Delivery

✵ Be Prepared

✵ Down Cold

✵ Style Selection

✵ Observation-Impact-Suggestion

✵ Practice Rehearsal for Effective Q&A with Active Listening

✵ Keep the Conversation Going

Chapter 9: What is Your What? Connecting with Yourself

✵ Key-Message You

✵ What Does the Body Think?

✵ What If I … ?

✵ What If I … ?, Continued

✵ Go for a Walk

✵ Three-Act Play

✵ Finish the Fantasy

✵ Finish the Fantasy, Continued

✵ Which Dominates, Being Liked or Respected?

✵ The Web of You

✵ Web Six Degrees of Separation

Chapter 10: Connecting in a Virtual World

✵ Virtual or Real: Key-Message a Meeting

✵ Speak the Speech for Virtual Communication

✵ Write; Don’t Send

Epilogue: Putting it all Together

✵ Be an Elephant