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This coming weekend we will be doing a workshop that will teach you how to identify you MOJO - check it out here. The very next time you make a presentation, see where you can express your MOJO. It might be the kind of humor you use or the stories you tell. It might be the level and style of interaction that you plan into each presentation. It might be a particular way we like to begin and/or end our presentations. Each of us is unique and so is our potential MOJO It is related to pleasure and the joys of sharing it with others. I say discover because we all have a seed of it and it is up to us to find it, to nurture it, to exercise it, develop it so that we can use it to help us communicate our messages to our audiences. You, too, can discover your own brand of MOJO. See how much energy is in his gaze? See how expectant he is to get a response from you? See how engaging he is? He's got his MOJO working.
Muddy Watters, the great blues man made a song about MOJO famous. Originally related to a Voodo or Hoodo spiritual practice, it has come to mean a kind of personal charm that is mesmerizing. Isn't MOJO is a great word! Energy, dynamism, magic, power, finesse, excitement, charisma - all of these are part of the meaning of that word. If you would like to practice these moves, developing comfort, confidence and proficiency as a presenter, check out the workshop schedule for August 27th and 28th HERE They will not forget how you made them feel and these feelings are the vehicle for your message, affecting them deeply and making it stick. By taking your time through the emotional moments, your audience will be able to experience their own feelings in response, and this will give them that precious sense of something really important happening. Then take another breath and with this new energy go on. Take a deep breath from low in your belly and FEEL the emotion. Rather than bulldozing through those moments, STOP when you come to the point of emotion. Once you know where these are be sure to give them plenty of space.
What anger, despair, joy, enthusiasm, pleasure, sadness are an integral part of your stories? When you are preparing your presentation, identify the feelings inherent in your material. How do you make that emotional connection for them? They want to leave different and better than when they arrived. How DO you make your audiences feel? They came to be transformed. Poet Maya Angelou was quoted as saying, "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." And I knew that she would not remember anything we talked about because of her short term memory loss and the same behavioral dynamic would likely be there again the next day or minute. I could see she was seesawing back and forth emotionally between her anger and her embarrassment and shame. That even if she felt frustrated, picking on her fellow residents was not OK. I tried to tell her in a way that was not scolding, just informative, that it was important for her to be kind to the people there - all of them. That they are very vulnerable and their feelings would be terribly hurt if she is mean to them. I talked with her about love, how these people are not capable because of their health condition to respond to her the way she would like them to. She sputtered that one of the other residents wouldn't talk with her, was just looking at her with no expression on her face, that it was infuriating and that the woman should not be allowed to behave that way.
Knowing she can easily have tantrums and cruelly verbally attack those around her when she is frustrated, I rushed to her side, sitting close beside her to calm her and help her change her attitude. When I walked into the dining room I saw that she was fuming, spitting fire. Weakened with dementia and a painful back, she nevertheless still has a wild spirit, artistic temperament, love of language (English and French) and an outgoing, self-important social nature. Last evening I visited my 98 year old mother in the Memory Care section of her retirement residence.
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