Offered at the 36th Annual National Wellness Conference
July 2011 Pre-Conference 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
University of Wisconsin campus, Stevens Point, Wisconsin

Who should attend?

Wellness professionals
Increasingly, the ability to give dynamic public presentations on your topic fuels your career advancement.

Wellness experts
If you’re an expert in your field, others can benefit from your knowledge. Don’t let fear or inexperience keep you from sharing your skills with others who need to hear what you have to say.

Beginners in wellness
This is a training not only in the principles of public speaking, but in the basics of wellness philosophy. Get started on a path that is not just health education or advice-giving, but true wellness motivation.

Professional speakers
Busy public lecturers know that if they gain some insight about speaking more effectively, they will use that knowledge many times. They can potentially gain the most value of anyone from this training.

Program Description

The success of a wellness promoter is increasingly dependent upon his or her ability to persuade, energize, and motivate other people through training, public speaking, and media opportunities. Emerging leaders can leverage the skills they already possess to work for them in public speaking situations. Askilled speaker and speakers bureau owner, Robert Fellows acts as a director and counselor in this certification program for wellness speaking. He will evaluate your current public speaking and media communication abilities, and show you how to build on those skills. Delivering your message with passion and interaction in an entertaining way has greater impact than a straight lecture. This workshop will show ways that you can use your personal strengths, illustrations, humor, experiential exercises, stories, and your unique expertise to excite your participants about your message.

Learning Objectives

As a participant, you will:
1. Discover your talents, even those that may be hidden, and apply them to your topic to create a presentation that is unique and personal.
2. Discover the unique message that your experience and expertise can bring to your topic.
3. Learn how to research your audience and customize your presentation to their needs.
4. Find illustrations that makes your point.
5. Learn the importance of sharing personal stories in delivering your message.
6. Learn and be able to use the 5 main principles of storytelling.

Fee

The Fee includes a one-year membership in the National Wellness Institute. In you are already a National Wellness Institute member, you will pay a reduced fee. You will also save on the Full Main Conference registration if you take this certification program.

Included:
8 hours of specified curriculum, integrated in-depth training, and a challenge exam
Continuing Education Credits
Certificate of Participation

Contact: Call the National Wellness Institute at 800-243-8694 and ask for Mandy, or go to www.nationalwellness.org.

Trainer

With over thirty years of experience as a public speaker, professional entertainer, corporate trainer and speakers bureau owner, Robert Fellows applies a broad and diverse background to his work. Fellows’ own presentation talent led to appearances on the David Letterman, Phil Donahue and Leeza shows, and many other television programs in the United States, Canada and Australia.  His work has been noted in publications including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Denver Post, and USA Today.