sarah Carleton Communication

Experiential Performance Techniques for Effective Communication

Experience the joy and passion of deepening your communication with self and audience.

Through experiential practice and technique, learn how tools, such as listening, storytelling, and creating genuine connection, can support your communication and the people you serve and inspire.

Together, through creative exploration, we’ll enhance your communication skills guided by your goals and needs. Learn below about areas of concentration such as education, cross cultural connection, and personal development.

express yourself

Love the journey of authentic connection.

“Don’t try to exactly copy another person’s path; use their knowledge, but remain aware that the particular ‘landscape’ of your own path is unique.”

The Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida

Excerpt taken from the short film Moving Portrait by Fernando Lopez

Work With Me

  • Are you an Entrepreneur looking to practice, strengthen, or explore your communication skills?

    SESSION IDEAS | Example of Custom Sessions

    Explore the use of storytelling in your presentations for both live and on-camera presentations to discover new ways to draw in an audience.

    Work on a presentation, exploring non-verbal and verbal communication skills to connect you to your audience.

    Practice and grow in skills to help you become more confident for on-camera work including zoom presentations, social media posts, interviews, etc.

    Role play scenarios with potential future clients, to practice your delivery in a safe environment to build your confidence and improv skills for consultations, client interactions, workshops etc.

    Click on the link to learn more: Entrepreneur

  • Are you in graduate school or in academics and looking to find ways to take difficult technical language and share it with groups or individuals outside of your field?

    SESSION IDEAS | Example of Custom Sessions

    Practice explaining your subject matter to individuals outside of your field with a chance for feedback about how it connected to someone unfamiliar with your work

    Discover non-verbal and verbal tools to connect challenging technical materials to an audience for public presentations or on-camera events.

    Explore and practice story telling techniques to help you convey technical material in unique and engaging ways.

    Develop on-camera skills to support the communication of your work for zoom presentations, video interviews, and social media videos.

    Click on the link to learn more: Academics

  • Are you an individual who is interested in becoming more comfortable on-camera for videos, conference calls, or social media posts?

    Or maybe you have always wanted to try out an acting class but never had the opportunity to take one.

    Acting skills can be easily transferred to a wide range of fields to support and develop tools that help you learn to listen in the moment, practice awareness of what your body does when you communicate and how that impacts an audience, tools to help you navigate nerves and anxiety around public speaking and performance related events, and stretching your creativity and imagination muscles.

    SESSION IDEAS | Example of Custom Sessions

    Practice and explore tools and skills to create a more comfortable on-camera experience.

    Acting sessions can cover learning a monologue, creating your own solo show, and learning exercises and skills to help you feel more comfortable presenting and performing in front of an audience.

    Click on the Link to learn more: Personal Growth

  • Have you recently moved to the US and are navigating speaking, presenting, on-camera work, or other scenarios where you are working in a second language?

    Are you looking for a safe space to try out a presentation or other public speaking events in a language that isn’t your first language as well as navigating cultural differences?*

    SESSION IDEAS | Example of Custom Sessions

    Practice a presentation with feedback on how it connects to a potential American audience.

    Role play for an interview or position that requires interactions with people in English such as practicing questions for an interview, interacting with a client in your field, explaining material on-camera.

    *I am not certified in ESL but have grown up living with exchange students as well as working with professionals from a variety of countries working to navigate communication skills in the US. Having seen through friends and co-workers the struggles of navigating a second culture and language I admire the courage it takes to step into a new culture. The work we can do can support you, wherever you might be in your language journey to feel more confident and comfortable communicating and navigating communication in the US.

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    Cross Cultural Connections

  • Are you looking for team building and ensemble building for your group?

    Perhaps, looking to add something new to an upcoming work retreat, add to your team building day, or explore ways you can bring storytelling and imagination into your educational work?

    Workshop Ideas

    Work with me to create a custom built workshop for your group that will be both interactive and experiential and designed for the goals and needs of your specific group.

    Through theater games, acting exercises, and storytelling tools groups can learn more about themselves and each other through playful interactive experiences filled with imagination and joy.

    Past Workshops have Included

    Exploring acting tools for PhD students in environmental science to help develop new ways to connect their material to individuals outside of their field.

    Integrating movement and acting tools to explore philosophy and ideas being taught in a philosophy class.

    Creating and performing your own story or short play, to explore what ideas and creativity can come from diving into a guided storytelling process.

    To learn more about booking for your group click on the link below: Groups