Fear of public speaking

Maybe you’ve done a lot of courses on public speaking, very practical advice for how to do it and you know your subject to the core. However, all the information you have gathered so far is not helping you with the fear of public speaking. As I said in a previous article, information alone is not enough to make a change.

Contrary to what most people think, avoiding our feelings, trying to act like we don’t have that fear, not wanting to look at it - all these strategies don’t make the fear go away. And we keep finding ourselves stuck over and over again in the same point where we started.

Instead, what brief strategic therapy proposes, is the opposite. When we run away from fear, it seems to get bigger and bigger and has more control over us. But when we stop and look fear in the eyes, it transforms into courage. So following this paradox, in brief strategic therapy we invite our clients to have specific times in the day where they voluntarily, actively welcome fear up.

The more you avoid your feelings, the more they are stuck to you and appear in unpleasant ways, when we least want them.