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We build confidence through personalized and team-based practice experiences for youth and adults

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Summer Camps

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Summer is the ideal time to become an effective speaker. We offer three types of summer programs each year to young people ages 8-18. All of our programs emphasize team-building, fun, and multiple styles of communication to help students find their voice. Our camps draw students from across the Bay Area and result in community performances.

  • Young Speakers Camp (ages 8-11): Build confidence through speeches, games, stories, and debate. Limit 15 students.
  • The Practice Space Debate Camp (ages 12-18): Become a debater who can argue, persuade, and listen. One or two-week options. Limit 20 students.
  • Teen Speakers Camp (ages 12-18): Find your voice and build confidence through podcasting, storytelling, acting, presenting, and debating. Limit 20 students.
  • Adult Speakers Intro Boot Camps (adults): Learn practical skills to improve presentation, delivery, and spontaneous speaking in work and life.

Registration is on our events page (registration opens in February of every year). Financial aid scholarships available by request to families in need.

Organizational Training

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Communication is an important part of speaking up for others and serving the community. We partner with local non-profit organizations to offer public speaking training sessions to help you refine your message, communicate with the public, and feel confident sharing your message. A coach from The Practice Space will visit your organization and lead a program customized to your team’s goals.

Partners

  • West Contra Costa Unified Youth Commission
  • El Cerrito High
  • Pogo Park
  • Richmond Promise
  • San Francisco State University
  • UC Berkeley
  • Kennedy High School (Richmond)
  • West Contra Costa Unified School Office of Community Engagement
  • The Academy
  • GO Public Schools
  • Davis Joint Unified
  • Loma Vista Environmental Science Academy
  • EL Education
  • Lake Elementary (San Pablo)

Contact us to schedule an introductory consulting call.

Personal Coaching

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Specific public speaking goals require in-depth personal attention. We offer low-cost private lessons to both youth and adults to help meet personal and professional goals. This option serves everyone from the beginning speaker looking to reduce anxiety to the seasoned professional who wants to polish an upcoming presentation.

Our past students have scheduled private lessons to:

  • Receive feedback on keynote presentations and prepare for meetings
  • Practice for job interviews
  • Learn spontaneous speaking skills to use in meetings and competitions
  • Polish oral delivery skills on a prepared speech or talk
  • Get assistance on speech writing
  • Receive in-depth coaching for high school speech and debate competitions

Personal coaching is scheduled by appointment – contact us.

Community Speaker Teams

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You don’t have to become a good public speaker alone. We offer free practice clubs every fall to youth to improve their public speaking skills in a supportive group setting.

  • Distinguished Youth Speaker Team (middle & high school students): Youth learn to communicate effectively about issues they care about in local Bay Area events.
  • Young Speakers Club (ages 8-11): Young speakers build their confidence and present their ideas through speeches, monologues, and stories.

Sign up on our events page (typically every fall and early winter).

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