Train like an actor to release your full voice (without forcing or faking your way through)
The audience reacts and responds to the sound of your voice long before they process your words, yet many speakers struggle with voices that feel more forced, flat, stuck, tired, monotonal or (in their own words) “boring” than they’d like.
A free voice thrills, enthrals, and captivates the audience, accessible only through voice work that works. Actors spend years honing their voices by integrating a series of simple presence, body and breath techniques: strategies any speaker can use to increase their impact and experience true vocal freedom.
In this entirely practical “on your feet” workshop*, join Katrina Roberts, professional voice & speech coach, and train like an actor. You’ll work through a series of tried-and-true exercises that will:
1. Align Your Body: Feel how tension and postural instability restrict the voice and limit both your physical and vocal impact.
2. Lower Your Breath: Understand and optimise your breathing pattern so you can fuel your full voice (and debunk the myth of "breathing from your diaphragm")
3. Free Your Voice: Integrate presence, body and breath techniques to reduce strain and release a sound so rich, warm and resonant that your audience can’t help but hang on to every word.
ABOUT KATRINA ROBERTS
Katrina Roberts is a highly experienced and sought-after voice and speech coach who founded Simply Speech in 2019. She specialises in supporting the voices of professional performers (including actors, speakers, leaders and public faces), as well as those with complex vocal needs.
Holding multiple postgraduate qualifications in voice, speech and public speaking, she balances technical precision with over 15 years of coaching experience to help speakers build a solid skillset and embody true vocal freedom. When she’s not working 1:1 with her clients, she’s teaching actors in her role as Voice Lecturer at JMC Academy in Brisbane or coaching corporate and NFP groups across the country.
Katrina is also a respected adjudicator of speech, drama and acting festivals, and a former award-winning Toastmaster. In 2023, Katrina was invited to train with world-renowned voice coach Patsy Rodenburg OBE, and is now one of a select few Patsy Rodenburg Associates working in Australia.
The Program:
6:00pm: Dinner at "The Kitchen" (optional - at your own cost)
7:00pm: Event starts
8:00pm: Break
8:15pm: Implementation
9:00pm: Event concludes - meet for drinks at the bar (optional - at your own cost)
Where:
Long Tan Room, Level 2, Kedron-Wavell Services Club, 21 Kittyhawk Drive, Chermside, QLD or online - this is a hybrid meeting.
Please note:
Please wear loose, comfortable clothes suitable for light movement.
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Providing accessibility for those unable to attend in person with Zoom. The link will be sent once registration is confirmed.
A recording of the Chapter Event will also be sent post-event.
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