Awake your power's workshops

Hi everyone, recently I just attended 2 workshop hosted by Awake Your Power. It's a community which is trying to help young people motivated, encouraged to pursue their dreams and unlock their full potential. They hosted some free workshops for free and I just attended 2 of them. Here I'll show you some information about those 2 workshops. Let's start with the name of those 2 workshops.

The first one is Public Speaking skill. This is a very important soft skills needed for most young people when they apply for a job. That's why I found it interesting and decided to join with my friend. The presenter there is Huynh Duy Khuong. He's not the founder of this community, but he has taught many students in many courses of soft skills. So, at the beginning, we had some warm-up exercises to make us less bashful and feel motivated. Mah, that's not too important anyway. I'll move into next part, which is the main content. So, at first, he showed us the definition of public speaking. It's pretty simple when he said so. It is "speaking" "in public". So, he gave us about his experiences before he start learning public speaking and later on, show us few process of this. At first, you need to prepare for the content. Then you practice to speak. The thing he emphasized here is that you must not practice to speak by your own, you need to practice speak it to some people, or at least 1 person. Because in many occasions, when you present before a group having a lot of people, many people have some tendency to be stressed and forgot their word when they say. So, practice to speak in public will help you overcome those fear. He call that REHEARSE. One more thing is that university in Vietnam these days still not really encourage students to present much. That's why many of them lack of that skill. So, when you rehearse, you need to ask for people to give you feedbacks. The feedback is very important because you need them to improve your presentation. Those feedback must be specific and cannot be general. After you received your feedback, you filter those. See if some looks necessary to do and some is not. Then you prepare again. And the triangle Prepare -> Rehearse -> Feedback -> Prepare is the gold triangle to help you with your public speaking skill. After many times doing like that, you will gain a confidence and eventually, your presentation will be great! Different from other workshops, this AYP (Awake your Power) 's workshop have some activities for participants to practice those skills. I entered a group of 5 people. And we started to give out our own past, reason coming to this workshop and what do we want to fix, kinda so. One more thing I realized is that I feel more confident to give out my opinions to help them with their own problems. Overall I think this is a helpful workshop and I didn't waste my time to go there.

Next one, is the Create Your Own Amazing Youth. The host place is in different place so I was mistaken and come late 20 minutes. Just like in the previous, they start it with the warming-up exercises. Happily, I came enough late to pass those without being miss the presenter's presentation. The presenter on that day is Nguyen Huu Tri, the founder of this community. He achieved many sucesses in his carreer and he want to encourage the youth generation to be more proactive. Move into next part, he asked us if anyone in the workshop has a boy/girlfriend or not. Surprisingly, all of us said no except the presenter. In the advertisement for this workshop, they mentioned about love and relationship that if you don't want to waste your new year being so lame and boring, or to find love, you might want to visit this workshop or a bit different from my memory. Come back to the workshop, he give out his own experiences about his love story. I don't want to drag on so I'll tell it shortly. "When he was 10th grade, he is an active boy who loves to attend all school's activities. Once, there was a fashion show required 1 boy and 1 girl from each class to join. Because none other boy agree to join, he was accepted, despite his short. However, they need one girl to join as well while no girls in class volunteered, so he need to ask one. The class president tell him to ask the prettiest girl of the hole GRADE, to join him. He denied and said that " that's impossible, what if the girl deny ? " But, the class rep asked that " but hey, what if she agree ? You don't have anything to lost, do you ? So why hesitate ?". He thought that is true, so he tried his best, asking the girl to join the fashion show confidently and amazingly, she agreed. They practiced alot after that and after the show, they become couple." So he stressed that the important thing is that you need to be proactive, confident to break your own walls of your limit first. Of course, there are many things you can't achieve no matter what but if you don't try, you'll never know. Move into next part, he said about his own youth, because that pretty girl study abroad, he gained movation to study diligently and properly so that he gained a scholarship to go Singapore at the first year university. And he was astonished because the education system in Vietnam was so different comparing with Singapore. The environment encourages student to discuss students more than hearing what teacher said and learn them word by word like a machine. Because he don't know anything was going on, the class ended without any word in his paper. It continues like that till next day, next month,... and he lost his motivation to learn. Singapore students begin to seperate him and no one want to join with Vietnamese students because they are learning passively and afraid to give out their ideas.

But, it changed when a professor come to his school and teach him to change his perception. There are 3 main quesion need to ask yourself to do things you want. First, Why not ? It helps you to think more about yourself, about how you would do to change your situation. Next one, when you give out an outstanding things will happen which no one will agree, you need to ask Why not me? to encourage YOURSELF to do that. Last thing ask Why not now? to push your own self, to start do things you really want instead of procastinate it. So after that, he managed to find a way improving his self, being one of the top students in school and invited to work in a big company, step by step. It's not that fast, in my way telling. There are many minor steps in that too, which he didn't tell us cause he didn't have time I think. He introduced us the NLP ( neuromatic linguistic programming) which helps us be motivated and ready to follow your dreams in your life. And, the most impoprtant thing, he introduced us the 7 habits of effective people. This is an extremely popular book and must read if you want to suceed in your career or your life. I will give you the diagram.

I need to buy and read this book right away I think. After that, it's just like previous one, we was divided in groups and discuss our siuation with others.

Both 2 workshop introduced a learning course after that, giving us details and teach us about those 2 topic in depth. I think I will join the public speaking course after semester 2 of my school end. If you attended those workshops and want to join me in next workshops coming, don't hesitate to contact me :3.