"Inspirational Speaker of the Year" 2011, NSANZ
Do you need an inspiring, entertaining, and engaging Speaker?
Sally weaves together story, song, and interaction with an inspirational message about finding your 'voice of leadership' tailored to your desired outcomes for the audience. Read her philosophy and view her in action on video below to get a feel for her message and style.
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To inquire re: booking Sally, email sally@sallymabelle.com or call 021 0222 8782.
Moving From Disconnection Into Expressing your 'Voice of Leadership':
What's the ONLY real problem you face?
It's the same problem in your family, your community, your organisation, and the world...your only problem is a sense of disconnection. This sense of disconnection is an illusion. Science has proven that all energy in the universe is interconnected. The essence of every atom is the same - pure energy. We are all at the core that same energy in different forms.
Disconnection happens on five levels:
1. Firstly, on the individual level, disconnection starts when you forget your own true nature. It is felt in a variety of situations as you disconnect from your breath and your voice. You can experience this as self-doubt, anxiety, scattered thinking, apathy, reactiveness, disease, or self-sabotage. Public speaking is one of the main arenas where people experience this sense of separation.
2. Relationships: Disconnection from yourself extends into your close relationships as withholding, withdrawing, protecting, or communication breakdown. In public speaking, you may experience this separation as feeling inferior or superior to your audience.
3. Community: A sense of disconnection in relationships extends into your community reflected in a variety of issues: the growing gap between rich and poor, drug and alcohol abuse, school bullying, and domestic violence are some of the examples. As a speaker, you can have a powerful influence by speaking up to make a difference in connecting your community.
4. Organisations: Disconnection in community is felt in organisations as a lack of trust among teammates, over-protectiveness and slowed productivity, resistance to change, lack of innovation, and disengagement. As a speaker and leader, you can facilitate greater connection amongst people in your organisation by modeling authenticity and courageous, open communication.
5. World: The problem of separation ultimately manifests itself in in the BIG FIVE ISSUES of suffering in the world: WAR, HUNGER, POVERTY, DISEASE, and ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION.
If we continue to falsely consider ourselves as separate from each other and from the whole of life, we will continue to exacerbate the BIG FIVE problems. Fear and greed will continue to dominate, and misery, planetary destruction, and ultimate extinction for all will be the result. It is time to let go of the dogged pursuit of individual advantage and be a voice for humanity as a whole. As a speaker, you can be a powerful voice for change.
The Vision
The future we must create together instead is a world of ONENESS.
It is time to elevate our human nature to its highest potential of love, creativity, and generosity. It is time to transform our ignorance into awareness, our closed-heartedness into compassion, and our victimhood into self-responsibility. It is time to restore a sense of balance. It is time to exalt a sense of community and to create a world that works for everyone. This will take our collaboration, courage, and commitment.
In order to ignite this cultural transformation from 'I' to 'We', from I-ness to We-ness, or from Ill-ness to Well-ness, we need to focus on developing and strengthening the following four vital capacities and skills as speakers and leaders: self-awareness, self-responsibility, empathy, and authentic communication.
To remember these key AREAS, you can remember that the word AREA is an acronym with each letter signifying one of the keys: A-Awareness, R-Responsibility, E-Empathy, and A-Authentic Communication.
It is time now to reclaim, revalue, and master these skills in order to pass them on to the next generation. By focusing on developing these capacities and skills in ourselves, beginning with our own voice, our relationships, our communities,and our organisations, we will create a world in which:
We dare to express ourselves openly and authentically, and our children, our partners, our neighbours, and our teamates do the same.
We hear the buzz of joyfully free voices creating and collaborating as we fully share our gifts with one other at home, at work, and in our community.
We feel the warmth in our open-hearted connection with each other, as we courageously trust and boldly express ourselves.
How do we actually create this sense of connection and develop our own 'voice of leadership'?
Here are 7 keys to connecting with your 'voice of leadership':
1. Be here now: Being present, fully awake, and focused on what is occuring at the moment enables you to respond most resourcefully to what is happening. You can strengthen this ability to be present through the mindful observing of your breath in each moment and by becoming more attentive to your sensations, thoughts, and feelings, being aware of the 'watcher' who is your true self, and is steady, strong, and unchanging no matter what the outer circumstances. By strengthening your inner observer, you will build your self-trust and strengthen your ability to naturally and appropriately express yourself in any situation.
2. Assume self-responsibility at all times: Remember that you are your own authority, and that it is up to you to manage your own responses to situations, direct your thoughts, and to create your own attitude to life. Being an 'authority' means you are the author of your life - you are the one that creates your experience in life. You are the one that creates your experience as a speaker.
3. Seek to empathise and understand: Everyone wants to be more deeply understood, including you. If you can remain focused on your audience and seek to understand them, you will strengthen your connection with them.
4. Build trust: Take care to demonstrate trustworthy behaviour by focusing on your audience's needs,desires, and expectations. When things don't go as planned in your presentations, be open to changing course. By developing an open-minded, open-hearted attitude, you can flex and flow and find the positive side of a situation that is better than your original plan.
5. Speak the truth with kindness: Speak up authentically and directly, with compassion as well as honesty and discernment. Dare to express your deepest dreams to inspire others with your message.
6. Collaborate: We live in an interconnected world. Our efforts together are so much more powerful than our efforts alone. Seek out ways to work together with others to create a better outcome for all. Respect and value the worth of every individual, and honour differences as important for a balanced perspective and optimum result in any endeavour. Collaborate 'in the moment' with your audience, incorporating their responses as part of your co-created experience.
7. Appreciate, celebrate, and honour yourself and others as well as the natural rhythms of Life. Acknowledge your own and others' achievements, discoveries,and mistakes. Take time to mourn losses and rejoice in larger dreams realised. Respect and trust the cycles and the seasons. There is a time of new life in the spring, a time of fullness in the summer, and a time of darkness, death, and stillness in the winter. These seasons happen in our relationships and projects as well as in nature. Pause, reflect, and mark both small and large occasions. Honour the ebb and flow of Life, realising it is natural to alter your pace of living according to what is happening at the time. As a speaker and a leader, you are also a celebrant, setting the tone of appreciation for the Life we all share.
Imagine how much more satisfying your life and work will be when you fully express your 'voice of leadership',from a perspective of interconnectedness.
Contact Sally if you would like some guidance in expressing your full 'voice of leadership'.
