Gerben Tuin is a CRKBO registered teacher.
Educational institutes in the Netherlands will not be charged with BTW.
Customized Workshop or Training
A training or workshop in which you decide what will be worked on, with how many people and for how long.
Be inspired by the following 3 hour training modules:
- Audience interaction: Nerves, focus, eye-contact and asking questions to the audience (no slides)
- Silence: Punctual speaking, pausing and hand usage (no slides)
- 4Focus Technique: Slide, hand and mind visualisations and how to switch between them (with or without slides)
- Audience management: Managing activity of the audience and dealing with questions (with or without slides)
- Online conferencing: Software settings, "eye-contact", increasing interactivity, using 4Focus (with or without slides)
- Speech volume: Increasing the volume of your speech with the help of resonance (no slides)
- Smooth, clear and captivating speech: Smooth and/or powerful sound, articulation, pace and rhythm (no slides)
Complemented by the following
±2 hour online homework modules:
- The Pyramid Principle: Creating a logic information structure and building a storyline from it, with the help of informative and interactive video's
- Slide design: A step by step guidance in how to build a slide-deck from scratch and an inspiring online video about ethos, pathos and logos in slide design
Costs: €150,- per in-class training hour, excl. BTW, room rental and preparation time. €15,- per homework module per person.
Travel fee: €75,- per hour of travel from Amsterdam, excl. BTW, incl. travel costs.
Interactive Key-note +
Discover, in a classroom setting, what presenting is about according to Gerben Tuin. How should you structure your information into a storyline?
How do you keep your audience attentive? How do you persuade them? And how do you deal with nerves?
Since presenting is about interacting with the audience, Gerben will do this throughout the key-note and allow them
to share their oppionion. After the key-note the audience is asked to do a small exercise which shows how word emphasise is influenced by hand usage and how the choice
of emphasis influences the sentence.
Overall an hour full of information and new insights.
Costs: €300,- excl. BTW and room rental.
Travel fee: €75,- per hour of travel from Amsterdam, excl. BTW, including travel costs.
Number of participants: unlimited
Duration: 1 - 1,5 hour
Available online
Fantastic Pitching Workshop +
In one hour you will learn how to write an effective and personal pitch, by applying logic, analogies and storytelling.
Through interactive exercises you will improve your delivery and audience interaction, after which you will eventually
pitch your pitch to the group and receive feedback.
Costs: €300,- excl. BTW and room rental.
Travel fee: €75,- per hour of travel from Amsterdam, excl. BTW, including travel costs.
Number of participants: unlimited
Duration: 1 hour
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Colourful Pitching Workshop +
In three hours you will learn how to pitch your story to a certain type of audience. The behaviour and
interest of the audience can be divided into 4 categories which together form the DISC model. Using all 4 in your pitch is best
and knowing which category is most dominant in your audience helps you to tune for the optimal effect of your pitch.
Through interactive exercises you will learn how to look through "the DISC lens" and improve your story, delivery and
audience interaction. You will pitch parts of your pitch several times, receive feedback and eventually experience the result
in a final pitch in front of an audience, with or without using slides.
Costs: €600,- excl. BTW and room rental.
Travel fee: €75,- per hour of travel from Amsterdam, excl. BTW, including travel costs.
Number of participants: unlimited
Duration: 3 hours
Available online
Voice Discovery Workshop +
When you speak, your words can be so much more than just information. You could create a certain atmosphere with your tone of voice,
could press your message with rhythm and intonation, and could even play around with the letters that form the word.
A one hour workshop that let's you have fun with your voice. Explore and be surprised about what you can do with it.
Costs: €300,- excl. BTW and room rental.
Travel fee: €75,- per hour of travel from Amsterdam, excl. BTW, including travel costs.
Number of participants: unlimited
Duration: 1 hour (more also possible)
Available online
Public Speaking Training +
A complete training for both the beginner and the advanced
Do you want to get better at presenting? Or is presenting something you rather avoid? This course will take you to your next level in presenting.
Presenting live, in front of a group or only one person, is the most effective way to get your message across, to connect to people,
and to potentially harvest new knowledge or information. Yet, under pressure, we tend to become less focused (or nervous even) and this hinders
the benefits of a live presentation.
By teaching you how to present with the audience, rather than in front of it, this course will get you to your next level in presenting.
We will have class discussions about several elements of live presenting, you will exercise in pairs, present in front of small groups,
and present in front of the whole group.
Before each session there is about 1-2 hours of homework in which you will work on a supportive storyline and slide deck, with the help of
several videos made by me. The amount of time you spend on the homework depends on how skilled you are in forming
a storyline and making slides.
We work in group sessions, in which you will learn how to:
- Improve your focus and/or reduce your nerves before and during a presentation
- Interact effectively with an audience using eye-contact, questions, silence and body placement
- Use your hands and use storytelling in such a way that it will improve the clarity of your presentation
- Deal with difficult questions from the audience
- Visualise in 3 different ways using the slide, your hands or the imagination
- Present with and without slides
Through 4-7 hours of homework you will learn how to:
- Select what information could motivate your audience to listen
- Design slides which support you in your presentation
- Optional: Use the Pyramid Principle to structure and prioritise the information, to eventually form a compelling story
The training uses the following formats:
- Group discussions, presentations and exercises
- Trainer and peer feedback
- Take-home assignments, including informative and interactive video’s
Costs: €3000,- excl. BTW and room rental + €120,- per participant above 8.
Travel fee: €75,- per hour of travel from Amsterdam, excl. BTW, including travel costs.
Number of participants: max. 20
Duration: 4 sessions of 3.5 hours and 4-7 hours of interactive videos and homework
Online version: I wil refer to how certain techniques are applied in an offline presentation.
Unfortunately we cannot practise body placement and eye-contact in the same way as we would in the offline version.
Voice training +
Volume, articulation, resonance and mood control
Sound has a big influence on our being; It can calm us down, make us stressed, happy or sad and even bring back memories.
If this is true, then have you ever considered how much the sound of your voice influences your communication? You could use
it for exactly the same purposes as listed above, use it to enthral the listening party and maybe even heighten the probability of them saying ‘yes’ to what you’re saying or what you’re asking of them. But how can you obtain this soothing sound, even in front of a large audience?
This training will very specifically focus on training your voice. The aim is to learn to speak in a way which is not alike but very close to singing, making it possible to reach out to the furthest row, without becoming harsh. This factor, combined with a clear articulation and good intonation, will empower you to become a persuasive speaker.
Costs: €2600,- excl. BTW and room rental.
Travel fee: €75,- per hour of travel from Amsterdam, excl. BTW, including travel costs.
Number of participants: 4-16
Duration: 4 sessions of 3 hours (optional: 3 sessions)
Personal coaching +
I can personally coach you. On an individual basis you will work on your specific problems. The exercises will be adjusted to your needs and your personal cognitions and motivation will be addressed.
Through coaching I can help you with:
- Focus improvement and nerve reduction
- Structured delivery through use of voice and silence
- Volume and articulation
- Mood control through use of body and voice
- Visualising and structuring with hands
- Dealing with difficult questions
- Pitch or storyline structure
- Slide design
I could even coach you before, during and after the presentation
Coaching is also very useful in preparation to a job interview, since it gives the possibility to train through role playing.
Costs: €150,- per hour, excl. BTW, room rental and travel fee/costs.
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