Wind Down & Speak Up
The confidence session
Online session | We work from a quiet reflection, to real insight and end with an invitation to share.
Everyone who comes to us says the same thing. "I want to be a more confident speaker."
Almost nobody says what's underneath it. That you don't deserve to be in the room. That everyone else knows more. That your voice is wrong, that you're boring. That you're an imposter, and the moment you open your mouth, people will find out.
We hear these sentences every week. They are not facts. They are beliefs, and beliefs can be questioned.
So we're setting aside half an hour at the end of the working day to question them. On 16 September, we look at what happens in our minds before we stand up to speak.
What happens
A short round so you know who is in the room.
Then 15 minutes of silent coaching. Dyane guides you through a reflection on your own experience of speaking in public: what you think, what you feel, where you notice it in your body. You write. Nobody watches you, nobody comments, nobody performs.
Then we take the beliefs that surfaced and ask one question. Is this actually true?
And when the answer is no, we ask the harder one. Then what is true? You are invited to write your own new sentence. Some people land on I have something worth adding. Yours is a new truth for you to discover.
We close with 10 minutes together. Share an insight if you want to. Stay quiet if you'd rather.
Dyane is a certified ICF coach and has been guiding people through this kind of reflection since 2014.
Why do we meet at the end of the day?
Researchers at Harvard Business School gave one group of workers 15 minutes at the end of each day to write about what they had learned. Another group kept working. After ten days, the group that reflected performed significantly better.*
The reason was not extra practice. It was confidence. Reflection raised their belief in their own ability, and that belief changed what they could do.
*Di Stefano, Gino, Pisano & Staats, Harvard Business School, 2016
So we are giving you that 15 minutes.
Bring something to write on. Bring yourself as you are after a full day. That is the point.
Details
📅 Wednesday, September 16
🕘 17:00–17:30 (Berlin time)
📍 Online via Zoom
💜 Free
Your Trainers
Esther and Dyane, theater-trained coaches with 30+ years combined experience in voice, story, and presence work.
“This was a wonderful workshop covering more than just tools! It made me connect to other amazing women and support each other!”
-Johanna Sieben, Director, Creative Bureaucracy Festival, Participant of Female Speaking Berlin workshops
Who is this for?
Women* who want to speak up with more confidence, whether that's in team meetings, presentations, pitches, or on bigger stages.
You don't need experience. You don't need to prepare anything. You don't need to say a word if you'd rather not.
Just show up with something to write on and your curiosity.
Got a professional development budget you haven't used yet? Our program EMBody might be exactly what it's for. Come along and find out.
*We use "women" to include all who identify as women, as well as non-binary and gender-fluid individuals.
ABOUT
Meet your hosts
Esther de Bruijn and Dyane Neiman are the co-founders of Female Speaking Berlin, with a combined three decades of experience in theater, storytelling, and communication. They are practitioners first: Dyane built Germany’s biggest storytelling community, THE BEAR, and together they have coached women at UN Women, TEDx, Global Women’s Network for the Energy Transition, Soundcloud, Falling Walls Female Science Talents, and more. Their approach is hands-on, playful, and grounded in real practice, not theory.
Want to go deeper?
Each lunch session gives you one skill. Our next cohort this fall, EMBody, gives you the full transformation.
EMBody runs from September to November 2026, with four in-person half-day sessions in Berlin (25 September, 16 October, 6 November, 27 November) plus a 1:1 coaching.
It’s designed for women who want to build lasting confidence as speakers, practice and deepen new skills and as a result - fundamentally change how they show up.
Webinar attendees get an exclusive offer. Stay till the end of the sessions to find out more.
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