Relief Found for America's Number One Fear: Stage Fright

Speaking Circles® International today announced relief for America’s number one ranked fear – stage fright. Stage fright surpasses death among people’s most prominent fears according the The Book of Lists. To support people worldwide in overcoming this fear, Speaking Circles International has created a quiz on its website to assess the severity of the anxiety as well as a 5-Step Method to offer relief to its sufferers.Whether giving a toast at a friend’s wedding, an informal talk to a small group at work, or an important presentation, it is natural to suffer from some degree of performance anxiety, or stage fright. Ranging from the “screaming meemies" variety of stage fright, to low-grade trepidation, to simply a sense that you can be so much more in front of groups, assessing your symptoms presents an ideal opportunity to begin transforming self-consciousness into self-confidence.“In 1989, still desperately seeking a solution to my life-long stage fright, I invented the group process that came to be known as Speaking Circles®,” said Lee Glickstein, Founder of Speaking Circles International. “Utilizing soft-focus group support for finite periods of time, this deceptively simple method has turned out to be the elegant key to gently dissolving fear of speaking in public for people around the world.” 5-Step approach to overcoming stage fright and performance anxiety:Full Presence Communication is based upon a natural method called “Be With”, meaning to invite connection on a personal level with one listener at a time.

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