Connection is a two-way exchange of attention and energy.  It is an ability to give attention to others and receive attention from others.  When you actually connect, you experience an exchange of human energy that feels good emotionally and physically. No matter who you are or what you do, the ability to connect is an essential ingredient […]

Life presents opportunities – moments that can propel us into a future of expanded experience. When the moment comes to turn the tide of life, what prepares us to catch the opportunity?  It is the ability to speak, to say yes, to say just the right thing, tell the right story, make the right point […]

I have been teaching my Zimmer Method for unleashing natural speaking potential for 20 years.  Over the years, people have said I should be more bold in speaking about my method. It has taken a long time to soak into my consciousness.  I guess I am a slow learner, but I always felt that people would […]

    I’d like to tell you a story. It’s a story that helps people see what is different about the Zimmer Method for presentation, public speaking and performance. It’s a story about my client, Tyrone and his success.      
Tyrone Moncriffe is a criminal defense attorney who was one of the first lawyers I trained.  When Tyrone […]

The magic of the Zimmer Method is in providing a safe space where people can go through their tensions and release them.  Permission to feel is healing; it is that simple.  The only way out of the tensions is to go through them.   Instead of making the tensions wrong, we create a group where there is permission […]

My approach to helping guide people to transform their stage fright has been evolving since 1984.  It began by asking people to stand quietly in front of my performance classes to see if they could just BE at the center of attention.  Most people had great difficulty simply standing quietly in front of the class.  […]

Authenticity is an important key for clear and effective communication, both in one to one situations and in front of groups.  If you want to be an excellent communicator, your style of communication must be genuine. 
 
Being authentic means that your outer expression matches your inner experience.  When you are authentic, you give yourself (and […]

I gotta crow! Last night after Transform Stage Fright into Natural Presence class, one of my students, Ashwini, exclaimed how this class is transforming her life! She recalled how as a young person in India, she had been an excellent dancer; so much so that her teacher had wanted her to dance at center stage […]

Let me describe what happens in performance anxiety, fear of speaking in public and in stage fright.  Perhaps you will recognize some of this from your own experience.  As human beings, we have a very sensitive central nervous system, especially along the spinal column where we have several energy centers where nerves bundle together to […]

Stage fright and fear of speaking in public are triggered by two things – expectation of perfection and fear of judgment.  We are expecting ourselves to be perfect (and we know we can’t be) so we think we are not good because we aren’t perfect.  We are also afraid that otfers will judge us harshly […]