Creative Speech is a living breathing presence touching the soul of others.
As a loving soul gesture between speaker and listener, Creative Speech enhances therapeutic thought, artistry and pedagogy. The Art of Speech Collective came out of a desire to work collaboratively and practically, in the most inclusive way possible, to allow Creative Speech study to be accessible and engaging for everyone.
Creative Speech
Creative Speech brings insight into the mysteries of language and the world by molding, shaping, imagining, and breathing life into the spoken word.
The practice of Creative Speech generates a conscious use of imagination, language, breath and movement to enhance speech and its effectiveness.
The Purpose of Creative Speech
The way we say things, along with our inner gestures around those words, deeply affects others. We must bring this expression into artistic consciousness to bring healing and avoid harm. In our development and understanding of what it is to be human through Creative Speech, we experience our own humanity and recognize the humanity in others.
Creative Speech serves to bring understanding of the importance of words, voice and speech as a foundation for teachers, and ultimately their students, as well as any who wish to enhance their capacities for effective communication and expression through the spoken word. Touching the feeling life of a child, or anyone with whom we interact, allows for deeper learning, understanding, and a sense of belonging.
My vision is for this work of The Art of Speech Collective to ripple out through teachers to their students, expressive artists to their audiences, and all human beings in their conversations, and continue to spread the magic of Creative Speech in the world as a model in contrast to today’s noisy and unclear world of AI and virtual realities.
The power of the authentic human voice enhances language development and allows for real conversation between people that in turn has a real chance at bringing healing and greater wisdom to the world. The sacred space of Creative Speech brings forth a fully ensouled life, aligned with our Higher Self.
The Four Pillars of Creative Speech™
I invite you to explore the four pillars of Creative Speech and how they as a whole create a vessel for communication in the human being, and open possibilities in the listener. Work with each pillar individually, and also weave them together to generate effective, conscious Creative Speech.
- Imagination -
Open the doorway to the imaginative world and bring sounds, words, and images to life
- Breath -
Capture the life essence of sounds as they flow on the breathstream
- Sound -
Tune into the shapes and forms of vowels and consonants that enliven language
- Movement -
Generate sounds from an inner gesture to an outer gesture, emanating from an experience that becomes expressed
Practical Applications of Creative Speech
Classroom Management
Lesson Presentation
Effective Conversations
Storytelling
Practical Artistic Sharing/Teaching of Storytelling, Drama, and Poetry
Understanding Others
Pedagogical Speech as Effective Voice of Teacher and Student
Support and Understanding of Students with Varying Needs
Options for Certificate in Pedagogical Speech
“Speech is an educative force. Through the truth and imagination of its content, through the beauty of its rhythm and music, through the purity and sturdiness of its vowels and consonants, it can feed, activate and form the soul and bring the body alertness, harmony, and health.”
- Christy Barnes - Speech Artist and Educator