Sally Bonkrude
MA, LPC, MT-BC
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Stage Fright Be Gone Expert
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- Internal Family Systems Therapy
Sally Bonkrude is America's GPS Performance Coach. She is intuitive, spiritual and easy to connect with, and will be your guide to Positive Inner Change. Sally helps you move from feeling scared and never good enough to confident and free to achieve the success you want in life. Sally is a licensed professional counselor and performance coach that is experienced in helping you overcome stage fright, anxiety and the blocks that keep you stuck. Sally has her Master's Degree from Naropa University in Transpersonal Psychology, plus is a Certified Advanced Gestalt Therapist and Board Certified Music Therapist. Sally Bonkrude is the author of Conscious Performing...from fear to freedom and speaks nationally on how to overcome performance anxiety. Sally has a private practice in Centennial, Colorado and also does coaching via the phone and online, plus offers teleclasses and trainings.
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Confidence through Inner Self leadership
Confidence can be found when you learn to become present and discover your “Inner Self Leadership”, that place that is full of confidence, wisdom, compassion, non-judgment, love, and strength. From this place, you will get to know the parts of yourself that hold the fears and anxiety and hijack you from living from this place of confidence.
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Public Speaking: Throwing out the rule book on public speaking?
I think most of us know the rules on public speaking. First, remember to not use filler words such as “ums”, “You know”, or “uh”. Second, show confidence and have your presentation well rehearsed. Use vocal inflection, and engage your audience. Now, I do believe that these rules can be used wisely and improve your presentation abilities, but they aren’t the end all.
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Playing your way to Confident, Successful Performance
“A playful performer is less likely to let fear take over when basking in the moment without a scorecard, time limit, or expectation. We are more likely to be present, calm and available to the flow of creative intelligence. Playfulness allows us to enlist and embrace our audience in our performance adventure. We are less intimidated by their questions, ideas, and responses.
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Connecting to Your Subconscious Mind and Core Self
Through connection and relationship with our Core Selves, and with our inner parts, we jou ey on from fear-based reality to loving Conscious Performing. For Conscious Performance, we must begin to know, understand, and heal our inner “parts” so we are free to connect to our audiences from a place of openness and love. A “part” is a personality mode that kicks in, usually to allow a person to cope with anxiety or other negative feelings. The average person has many parts.
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Conscious breathing is the most important tool for reducing performance anxiety and its symptoms. Conscious breathing supports us in the totality of our lives. Once we consciouly partner with the breathm, we are able to address any internal or exte al challenge that comes our way. Conscious Performing...from fear to freedom by Sally Bonkrude
I believe that truly great performances happen when we release the tensions and constrictions in the body through movement. When this happens we are able to present uninhibited, free, body centered and breathfilled performances. Conscious Performing...from fear to freedom by Sally Bonkrude
Music bypasses the need for language and moves directly into accessing the parts of us we cannot otherwise communicate. Every sound you make vibrates every organ in your body. Singing, chanting, humming and voicing all have a powerful effect on our whole body system. Sound relaxes the thinking mind, harmonizes our mind-body-spirit, and helps to release tension." Conscious Performing...from fear to freedom by Sally Bonkrude
We think we're in control and have the ability to create the perfect performance. Yet, being in control will never "make" a great performance happen. Control only creates tension, anxiety, and fear. Instead, it's about allowing flow, improvising in the moment, connecting to the needs of our audience, and meeting our audience with love and compassion. This is an important key to conscious performing. Conscious Performing...from fear to freedom by Sally Bonkrude
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