Patricia Stark

Patricia Stark Speaking Topics

• Calmfidence®: How to Trust Yourself, Tame Your Inner Critic & Shine in Any Spotlight

  Based on the popular book "Calmfidence" • after helping thousands of students and clients find their calm and confidence on stage and screen, veteran broadcaster, SAG/AFTRA performer, public speaking trainer & media coach Patricia Stark makes her methods available in her book CALMFIDENCE: How to Trust Yourself, Tame Your Inner Critic, and Shine in Any Spotlight—a comprehensive guide to improving self-talk and outward communication skills in work, school, and everyday life. Based on her book, workshops and guest lecture series at Fordham University and other universities, colleges, corporations and women's leadership conferences, covering four interlocking parts—Everyday Calmfidence, Resilient Calmfidence, Communication Calmfidence, and Natural Calmfidence—this presentation will help attendees:

  • Tap into the top Calmfidence Boosters
  • Minimize the most common Calmfidence Killers
  • Handle stress and anxiety communicating with confidence at work or school
  • Overcome public speaking and interview fears
  • Listen to your inner coach instead of your inner critic
  • Master calm, confident body language and non-verbal communication skills
  • Find calm and confidence when out of your comfort zone in daily life
  • Use practical positive mindset and relaxation exercises
  • Discover secrets to delicious natural foods & remedies that bring calm and confidence

• Lights, Camera, Virtual Calmfidence® | Best Practices for Mastering Your Virtual On-Camera Skills

  Veteran Broadcaster, SAG/AFTRA performer, and Media & Public Speaking Trainer Patricia Stark will help you learn how to immediately improve your presence and communication style for the virtual environment. Giving solid tips and best practices for executive leaders and presenters to better communicate with a remote workforce.

  Learn what behaviors should remain the same and what should be altered for comfortable engaging virtual communication.

  You'll learn:

  • How to prepare your virtual environment – how to set up the best shot – framing, headroom, backgrounds, and lighting tips.
  • Proper laptop, camera, monitor placement, eye level, distance, minimizing distractions
  • Audio, microphone and headset tips
  • Connecting through the lens – the human factor
  • Knowing where to look, when and why • proper eye contact changes everything
  • Facial expressions and active listening
  • Effectively use Body Language / Non-Verbal Communication, Posture
  • Improve voice strength, projection, and inflection, control speed, ahs & ums, filler words
  • Conversational vs. presentational styles
  • The emotional connection -no emotion – no audience, it’s that simple
  • On-Camera Calmfidence® Tips -Increase speaking comfort zone, control nerves, handle distractions

Women’s Self-Care Calmfidence® Keynote

After helping thousands of students and clients find their calm and confidence on stage and screen, Author, veteran broadcaster, SAG/AFTRA performer, public speaking trainer & media coach Patricia Stark tailors her strategies for calm, confidence, balance, and inner trust into this revitalizing and empowering self-care experience for women.

• Tap into calm confidence during stressful situations with tangible techniques, natural foods & remedies, Calmfidence® habits, & proven stress & anxiety busters.
• Build self-trust, strengthen your voice & communication skills
• Be in command of your body language to project a positive, confident image that commands respect.
• Access Calmfidence® secrets, tips & tools used by celebrities, CEO’s, performers & athletes to stay relaxed under pressure or when outside of your comfort zone.

Important Take Aways:

Calmfidence® is the secret sauce for success. When you are agitated, rushed, or letting the pressure get to you, you are not in charge of yourself and cannot lead others. You make better choices when you are calm. You trust yourself and others trust your judgment. Turn your Inner Critic into an Inner Coach. We often talk to ourselves in the most negative way imaginable. Instead, use positive self-talk to drown out your inner critic.

Pump yourself up with encouraging thoughts that motivate you and ultimately train you to inspire others. Your brain cannot process negative and positive thoughts at the same time, so your positive thinking will overwrite the negative thoughts. Then, your brain will be trained to notice the positives around you and tame your inner critic.

Uncover the secrets of Lemon balm, Cherries, bananas, celery and pickles that all contain elements that improve calm and enhance sleep.

Learn relaxation exercises and powerful visualization techniques to help you achieve a state of calm.

Un-hurry yourself and stick to a steady pace. Live in day-tight compartments, only focusing on the task at hand, not getting distracted by ruminating about the past or worrying about the future.

Most important: Find your red thread. Identify it and remember it every time you begin to feel stress to pull you back to center and a state of Calmfidence®.

The Power of GRIT & Resilience

What is Grit and why does it matter? How balancing the demands of career and personal life, with a focus on how GRIT plays an important part in success.

Why it’s critical to have small goals that can be achieved, as well as long term goals. Grit is living life like it’s a marathon, not a sprint.

The impact of self-leadership and managing our emotional intelligence in terms of working on a team and being successful in the workplace.

The importance of working in a field or position that you have an interest or passion for.

Why a growth mindset, optimism and making mistakes are such great learning tools.

How resilience is a quality that someone can learn or develop.

Small steps you can take toward becoming more resilient.

Building relationships and having mentors in building your confidence and resilience in the work place.

Body Language Calmfidence | Be in Command of Your Own Body Language and Learn to Identify Others'

As a Certified Body Language Trainer, Fordham University Guest Lecturer of Graduate Student Communications, SAG/Aftra Performer, Author, and Certified Personal & Professional Coach with the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute, Patricia Stark will take you into the world of non-verbal communication. You'll learn what you are saying when you're not saying a thing, and how to interpret the body language of those around you in both your personal and professional life.

Changing your body language can change your emotions, stress levels, and self-esteem. It can set the tone and foundation for your day and your interactions with others. Body-language awareness will help you appear calm, cool, and collected and utilize secret stress relievers to relax their bodies. As a body language expert and trainer, Patricia will show you how you can become aware of your body language and use it to present yourself with Calmfidence and communicate more effectively with your non-verbal cues.

You will also discover how to observe others’ body language and use your observations to discern more about those around you. And you will identify how you may be minimizing your presence and how to counteract that, how to appear calmer, and what you should look for in other people’s body language.

You'll also learn about:

Eye-Contact Calmfidence: Healthy eye contact contributes to emotional health, presence, and mindfulness, and the comfort level of interpersonal and communication skills. Explore what an individual’s level of eye contact says about the person, how they feel about themselves, and how they feel about the people around them. The differences between meaningful eye contact, inappropriate eye contact, and how the decline of eye contact in recent years due to our increasing use of communications technology is affecting our social skills and connection with others. You will explore when eye contact makes you feel uncomfortable, when you avoid eye contact, and how you might improve your eye contact skills.

Facing Calmfidence How we communicate our Calmfidence non-verbally through our facial expressions and how we can increase our Facial Credibility. Learn about face talk, and micro expressions, and what to look for in others. Bad facial habits, including cheek chewing, lip biting, and other weird habits, are explored.

Patricia will also share some fun tips and strategies used by performers and professional presenters to relax the face such as The Pumpkin Raisin Exercise, the Basset Hound, the Hang Over, and the Pinch Hitter. She'll help you consider facial habits you may have and want to change, ways you can utilize your smile more, and ways to become a better overall facial communicator.