One-day Lecturer Training Workshop in Chislehurts, United Kingdom

hat a workshop it was! - The one-day presenter. We were told, ‘Never belittle yourself W lecture seminar in Chislehurst, set-up and promoted by Mieko Davies and Tomoko in front of the public such as by saying “I am sorry, I am not a good presenter…”, instead you Harris, and organised by Dr. David Hanna. should always stand up for yourself and have Fifteen people, mostly second generation confidence: “I have something to say and I say blessed children, including our Japanese it.” Try your best.’ Following that, we each had missionaries, gathered to learn new skills. to give a two-minute presentation on the topic, Perfectly prepared (the material was sent out ‘My plans for 2014: Who is going to join me?’ beforehand), we were asked to bring, if This was for many their first experience to give a possible, a laptop with us. presentation or talk in Public. David Rennie was The schedule was rolled out from 9:00-21:00 on commenting on each speech with lots of praise Saturday, 21. Dec 2013; the cost: £15 including and some constructive criticism. In addition, lunch and dinner. The first half was lectured by participants were asked to evaluate each speech David Rennie, the second part by David Hanna. by giving marks from 1-5. We all listened to each presentation, looking for aspects to adopt David [Rennie] covered the morning and ourselves, or avoid, as an important way of included the share of his experience as a

learning (second only to doing it ourselves). short Autobiography of True Father’ another. Each presentation was video-taped so the This time, three participants in turn were asked presenter could watch themselves afterwards. to give a verbal evaluation - some instant David [Hanna] guided us through the afternoon. feedback for each presenter. And again each We were working towards giving a ten-minute speech was video-taped for the purpose of Divine Principle lecture. To prepare us, David seeing and listening to oneself, and everyone shared some general thoughts about good gave a three-fold score to each lecture - presenting practice as well as lessons from his according to “Spirit and Power”, “Knowledge own experience. This was followed by Rev and Understanding” and “Delivery and Moon’s words on public speaking. ‘When you Technique”. Replete with newly gained skills organize a good lecture, you feel God’s heart and having climbed a valuable learning-curve, and the heart of True Father …The most we went for dinner to replenish our energies. important thing is for you to realize that you are Our last session was a reflection time including the mediator between God and the audience.’ True Father’s words on lecturing. Finally, each of us was asked to prepare a In the end, with all the newly-won abilities and lecture. with all the helpful material (David Rennie left We established a list of ten people (you could us his guidance in print whereas David Hanna opt out, with no shame attached!) who were sent us scripts, quotations and Power Point volunteering to give a mini-lecture. As broad as slides) no treasure in the world could have paid the topics of the Divine Principles are, so were for such seminar. Excellent! Thank you! the speeches, ‘The relationship between the Peter Schröder Spiritual and Physical World’ was just one, ‘A