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		<title>The first ingredient of rapport is full attention</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/12/31/the-first-ingredient-of-rapport-is-full-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to an interview today with Daniel Goleman, who, having previously introduced the concept of Emotional Intelligence, is now talking about Social Intelligence.  His current work is looking at how the brain is wired to create connection.  The sentence that drew me into the interview today was, &#8220;The first ingredient of rapport is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=819&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Authentic presence&#8230; What is it really?</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/08/16/authentic-presence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[authentic presence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After having had the pleasure of being in the presence of a number of &#8220;masters&#8221; in the last couple of weeks, I&#8217;m deeply immersed in this inquiry.  What is authentic presence really? Here are some examples of presence that I&#8217;ve experience: I attended a facilitated gathering of folks recently where the lead person demonstrated a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=622&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t remember what you&#8217;d planned to say?</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/06/25/cant-remember-what-youd-planned-to-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has this ever happened to you? You have an important presentation and you&#8217;ve done all your preparation. You don&#8217;t want to memorize the talk, but you also want to have a clear sense of what you are going to say and how you are going to say it. The morning of the talk you practice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=580&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from a lint filter, water bottle and electric toothbrush</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2010/02/17/lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[relaxing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somehow, as much as I’m trying to slow down and simplify my life, I always seem to be in a hurry. Every time I do my laundry I’m reminded that hurrying through my tasks isn’t the most efficient way to get things done.  I always seem to want to quickly empty the lint filter in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=526&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Openings&#8230; The biggest stumbling block</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/12/16/openings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beginning a presentation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The first few moments of a presentation always terrify me.” “I know my subject really well and know what I want to say, I just don’t know how to get started.” “If the first few minutes go well, then I relax for the rest of the talk.” Statements like these are almost universal. It seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=399&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What do I do with my hands when I speak?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/11/07/hands/</link>
		<comments>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/11/07/hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presence strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connecting with audience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having an important conversation with my daughter this week when I became very aware that I was not connecting at all with her.  We were standing by a car and I couldn&#8217;t find a relaxed, comfortable position.  So instead of really listening to what she was saying, I was focused on where I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=411&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-consciousness vs. Presence</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/10/30/self-consciousness-vs-presence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to David&#8217;s comment to my last post about fear arising not at the beginning of a talk but rather 3 or 4 minutes into the talk, I thought I&#8217;d share the first article in a 26 week article series I&#8217;ve written entitled The ABCs of Presence in Speaking, Leading, and Life!  This first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=402&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of the first few minutes in public speaking</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/09/29/first-few-minutes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discovering presence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I swim for exercise. I swim in pools that are kept relatively cool so that lap swimmers don’t overheat when they work up a “sweat”. This means that it’s always hard to get into the pool at the beginning of my swim. Once I’ve been in the water for even one lap, the chill wears [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=365&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;less is more&#8221; approach to public speaking</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/04/05/less-is-more/</link>
		<comments>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/04/05/less-is-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am moving!  My new home is about one quarter the size of my current home.  This is a conscious choice for me as I have begun to realize that the only way we can truly impact our ever growing environmental crisis is to make a much smaller footprint on the planet.  And, I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=310&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Obama&#8217;s presence</title>
		<link>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/01/26/obama-presence/</link>
		<comments>http://speakingpresence.com/2009/01/26/obama-presence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carla Kimball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one final thought on Obama&#8217;s presence during his inauguration speech. Think about how you felt while  listening to his speech.  Then read the text of his speech. Do you get the same feeling? If we go through the various ways we could have taken in his speech, we&#8217;d get varying degrees of his presence: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=speakingpresence.com&#038;blog=6257156&#038;post=77&#038;subd=speakingpresence&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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