Workshop Host - Nicki Davey
Workshop title: Breathing and Voice
Maintaining a calm but authoritative presence is essential when training and presenting.
In this workshop we’ll learn how to use breathing techniques to help us to stay calm and
focused, centred and balanced, and how to sound great by using voice projection, resonance
and pitch effectively.
Once the techniques have been mastered, we’ll put them into practice and explore their
impact by singing together. We’ll sing simple songs and chants to explore how we can use our
voices and to really connect and communicate with each other. No-one will have to sing on
their own and any fears about singing will be dispelled – an ideal way to overcome self-limiting
beliefs (“I can’t sing”). We’ll create a joyous sound and generate a wonderful energy.
Breathing properly improves our physical and mental health by detoxifying inner
organs, promoting blood flow and digestion, increasing oxygen supply to the
brain and muscles, as well as improving concentration and reducing stress.
Singing together as a group is wonderfully uplifting, creates a powerful sense
of collective enjoyment, promotes listening, communication and co-operation and
reduces stress and tension. You’ll therefore benefit not only from valuable
techniques for training and presenting, but you are guaranteed to feel great
afterwards.
We’ll also explore the learning from this experience, and how this can be applied within a training
environment with suggestions for simple activities to incorporate into training.
About Nicki
Nicki runs Saltbox Training & Events Ltd which she set up after gaining over 20 years'
experience of leading, managing, training, and developing people in the charity and social
housing sectors.
Saltbox helps companies improve their performance by increasing the wellbeing,
motivation, morale, skills, knowledge and confidence of their staff. Nicki firmly
believes that we all perform best when our mind is free, our body relaxed, and our
creative potential unlocked, and she applies these principles to both her business and
home life.
Nicki’s boundless energy, power to engage people, ability to turn ideas into reality and sense of fun
has earned her a reputation as an inspiring leader and innovative trainer. She is a member of the CIPD,
ILM and Stress Management Society, holds various management and training qualifications, and is a
qualified facilitator for the Tetramap profiling tool.
As well as enjoying being outdoors and connected to the natural world, Nicki is active on her local
acoustic music scene. She presents an acoustic music show on Glastonbury fm radio, manages a bluegrass
fusion band, and runs music festivals, concerts and open mic sessions in the Somerset area. She also
has a reputation locally for singing lots of old gospel, blues and bluegrass songs about death, dying,
losing loved ones and trains, which she finds empowering and uplifting!