Imagine your son or daughter going from Novice to Guild Inductee in two years!
Your Journey from Spectator to Speaker
This cohort is for students who are motivated to launch their potential as a student leader. Opportunities abound after they complete the Young Speakers Guild (YSG) Phase 1 Portfolio. Cindy Clarkin will mentor interested students in an introduction to ICC’s student-leadership development pathway (or visit iccinc.org > MEMBER).
This can be completed in 3 - 4 months. In the fall the student will continue their YSG portfolio Phase 2 and join the RI HOPE SL team as trainee.
Cohort Overview:
Real-world skills: The YSG portfolio series gears students towards work-cited and bibliography pages which help anticipate college papers, tax filing, job applications, and other real-world experiences. They are taught how to show respect for sources, authority, others, and the platform where they speak. This perspective is often overlooked in speech training but is essential to success in the real world.
Skill-building approach: EXPRESS uses a broad approach to building competencies, exposing speakers to a variety of skills. The Young Speakers Guild portfolio series is incremental and builds layer upon layer.
Safe Community: Young Speakers Guild Phase 1 establishes “safe community,” beginning with an audience of peers and moving the speaker into community audiences.
Repetition: Repetition is necessary for mastery. Exposure to key concepts, speech types, and vocabulary is foundational for communication education. Repetition grows competence and confidence. Speakers will be expected to repeat exercises from EXPRESS that further mastery. Most exercises have been edited to challenge speakers in new ways.
YSG Tool: The Young Speakers Guild portfolio series is centered around ICC’s unique Six Steps to Transformation (P3 + R3 = C3) approach to competency training. Young Speakers Guild Phase 1 starts with coaching and personal reflection and moves towards self-assessment and community evaluation.
Portfolio-based: The Young Speakers Guild Phase 1 helps speakers to design a portfolio around their public-speaking journey, complete with evaluation forms, scripts, photographs, and copies of original thank-you notes.
Gateway to leadership opportunities: ICC facilitates transformation where ordinary students become extraordinary leaders. Students enrolled in a YSG course of study are encouraged to participate in ICC’s practice environment, ICCFS tournaments. The Institute for Cultural Communicators Forensics Society provides the opportunity for growing communicators to experience ICC’s global community via the camaraderie of peers beyond their own classroom. Students who enroll in ICC chapters and who complete the Young Speakers Guild portfolio are uniquely positioned to explore future leadership opportunities within the ICC community.
Cohort Meeting Dates and Cost:
Orientation: Friday, March 26, 12:45
3 Live Seminars: Saturday, April 17, Saturday, May 8, Saturday, June 12 12:30-5:30 Followed by a potluck dinner for all families at Westwood YMCA in Coventry.
3 ZOOM meetings: To Be Determined
Live Seminar Location: The Clarkin’s House, 569 Williams Crossing Road Coventry, RI
Cost: $60.00 for the Young Speakers Guild Phase One Portfolio + joining ICC/RI HOPE
Contact: Cindy.Clarkin@ICCinc.org or call landline (401)392-3612
The Vision of the Institute for Cultural Communicators to enlarge a global community empowering next generation Christians to influence today's culture.
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