Managing Presentation Anxiety [Registration Required]

Pratt master's students may register for this workshop at wconline.pratt.duke.edu. This workshop is a part of the Pratt Master's Professional Development Program.

We all get nervous before a big presentation. This workshop will provide you with tools and techniques to help you reduce your pre-presentation anxiety and remain in control during a presentation. We will examine the science behind our anxiety to help us better understand it and then we will use breathing techniques and mindfulness/meditation to help us control it. You will leave this workshop with a new perspective on presentation anxiety and a set of tools to help you manage it.

Facilitator Bio: Bridget Fletcher is the Director of the Pratt School of Engineering's Graduate Communications and Intercultural Programs Team. She has been at Duke Engineering since 2007, working in various roles to support graduate students. She has taught English to international graduate students since 2010.Bridget received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from North Carolina State University and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies with a focus on Intercultural Communications, as well as an English as a Second Language (ESL) teaching certification from Duke.

Her master's research focused on Chinese student acclimation in the American graduate school classroom. She is the author ofFrom Jiao Shi to Classroom, a guidebook for Chinese students coming to the United States for study.