Global Ecovillage Network/Solution Library/Presenting your project

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People have great ideas and projects in their minds and head. And when they start talking about it.... it sometings sounds silly, strange or just not clear. It is a big gap from thinking to speaking. This gap can be filled with practice and effort. “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” Blaire Pascale

Presenting your project is a great tool for many things: ● It helps you become more clear within yourself ­ because you have to think about what you want to tell ● You can get great feedback from others and learn ● It is an important part in giving birth to your project: by talking the world starts to see it. So do it.

This can be done in many ways (and is a fine art) ­ here are some: ● create a poster (with premaid topics) and speak about that in front of one person, a group or an audience ● let people create a marketspace with their projects: the participants go around and ask each other questions ● do an elevator pitch: you have 1­2 minutes to tell another person/audience about your project ● make a pecha kucha: 20 slides, 20 seconds each. And off we go.

References: Reynolds, Gar (2008): Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery, New Riders web: pecha kucha ­ http://www.pechakucha.org (reviewed 2015.12.06) Submitted by : Pioneers of Change

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