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October Voice and Communication Skills Class Now Forming!

Anna Bernstein is thrilled to offer voice and communication skills improvement classes this fall. This is a great opportunity for you to learn tips and techniques that will benefit you for a lifetime, at a fraction of the cost of private sessions. Class runs for four consecutive weeks and offers expert help in:

  • Projecting your voice with warmth and power
  • Sounding like a leader and expert
  • Interviewing tips and techniques
  • Understanding how your audience hears you with The Three Ones©
  • Understanding how to overcome being interrupted
  • Improving breathing skills, increasing voice projection & pitch variety

Class is limited to 10 people so everyone will receive personal attention. Here are the details:

DOWNTOWN
Dates: Mondays, October 6, 13, 20 & 27
Time: Noon - 1 p.m.
Location: Two Union Square, 51st Floor Conference Room
Cost: $250 for four 60-minutes classes

To register, email anna@brain-voice.com or call me at 206-216-4650 to confirm space is available and I will send you payment instructions. 

Presentations: How to Make Them Powerful and Positive!

Anna Bernstein, founder of The Brain-Voice Connection®, is offering a 4-week, eight-hour class in October that will give you the tools to create and deliver powerful presentations. Please come prepared to deliver a 5 minute presentation the first night, which will be videotaped. Your final presentation will also be videotaped, so you can see your improvement. Anna will focus the details you need to find your own best style, including:

  • What's your story?
  • Beginning with the end: finding the message and delivering it clearly
  • Creating a benefit for the audience
  • Turn your presentation into a conversation
  • PowerPoint: take it or leave it
  • PowerPoint: if you take it, make it inspirational
  • Just the facts, ma'am: determining what to omit
  • Playing to the brain: how to keep your audience engaged and fascinated
  • Why your presentation is too long and how you can shorten it
  • Tips for great delivery, including projection and pitch variety

Class size is limited to 8 people for personal attention. Please email anna@brain-voice.com or call 206-216-4650 to reserve your space now.

Dates:  Tuesdays, Oct. 7, 14, 21 & 28
Place:
  Phinney Neighborhood Association, 6532 Phinney Ave. N.Seattle, WA98103
Time:   6:00 - 8:00 p.m.Cost:    $450

Eastside Accent Reduction Class for ESL Speakers Now Forming!

Anna Bernstein of The Brain-Voice Connection© is offering accent reduction classes this fall for Eastside residents. If English is your second language, this class will help you with tips and techniques that will benefit you for a lifetime, at a fraction of the cost of private sessions. Class runs for four consecutive weeks and offers expert help in:

  • becoming more effective communicators with work colleagues
  • reducing misunderstandings
  • improving presentation skills
  • becoming more confident in communicating at work
  • reducing the accent of your native language when speaking English
  • projecting the sound of their voices more powerfully
  • speaking in clear, direct and well-defined sentences

Please bring your laptop to class if you can. Class size is limited to 12 people so everyone will receive personal attention. Here are the details:

When:       Wednesdays, September 10, 17, 24, 10/1
Time:        6:15 – 8:15 pm.
Location:  Meadow Creek Professional Center, Issaquah, WA 98027
Cost:        $400 for four 2-hour classes

I offer a money-back guarantee. If you are not satisfied that you have received the training I have described by the end of the fourth session, I will return your money, no questions asked. To register, email me at anna@brain-voice.com to confirm your space.

To register, email or call me to confirm space is available. Then prepay with a check sent to: Anna Bernstein, 901 S. 137th Street, Burien, WA 98168.

September Voice and Communication Skills Class Now Forming!

New Locations and Times!

Anna Bernstein is thrilled to offer voice and communication skills improvement classes this fall. This is a great opportunity for you, your colleagues and clients to learn tips and techniques that will benefit you for a lifetime, at a fraction of the cost of private sessions. Class runs for 4 consecutive weeks and offers expert help in:

  • Projecting your voice with warmth and power
  • Sounding like a leader and expert
  • Influencing clients and prospects with your voice
  • Learning how to make The Brain-Voice Connection
  • Understanding how your audience hears you with The Three Ones©
  • Understanding how to overcome being interrupted
  • Improving breathing skills, increasing voice projection & pitch variety

Class is limited to 12 people so everyone will receive personal attention. Here are the details:

LOCATION ONE: PHINNEY
Tuesdays, September 9, 16, 23 & 30
Time: 6:15 -7:45 pm.
Location: Phinney Neighborhood Assoc, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., Room 3 Seattle, WA 98103.
Cost: $200 for four 90-minutes classes
Note: Sept. 9 class will meet in The Teachers lounge on the top floor of PNA.

LOCATION TWO: DOWNTOWN
Mondays, September 8, 15, 22 & 29
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: Two Union Square, 3rd Floor Conference Room
Cost: $200 for four 60-minutes classes

LOCATION THREE: SOUTH LAKE UNION
Thursdays, September 11, 18, 25 & Oct. 2
Time: Noon – 1 p.m.
Location: 5 Focus, 1009 8th Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109
Cost: $220 for four 60-minutes classes (includes lunch)

I offer a money-back guarantee. If you are not satisfied that you have received the training I have described by the end of the fourth session, I will return your money, no questions asked. To register, email me at anna@brain-voice.com to confirm your space.

To register, email or call me to confirm space is available. Then prepay with a check or by PayPal, at www.paypal.com. To make a payment, simply click the "send money" tab, type in my email, anna@brain-voice.com, enter $200 and hit send. The address for sending your check is 901 S. 137th Street, Burien, WA 98168.

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