Train like a professional

The confidence to communicate clearly in meetings, conversations, and the moments that matter.

90 minutes, one-to-one with a senior WAAPA practitioner. Skills, frameworks, practice, development, and live feedback specific to you - applied to real material in a private studio at our brand new city campus.

A different kind of professional development, built on WAAPA's world class reputation of training by doing.

Who is The Speak Up Intensive for?

This Intensive is for professionals who hold back in meetings, get talked over, or freeze when the moment to contribute comes. You have valuable ideas. You see what's going on in the room. But somewhere between knowing and saying, the moment passes - and someone else makes the point you were about to make. This Intensive is built to change that, working one-to-one with a senior WAAPA practitioner on the specific situations where you want to speak up but don't.

This Intensive is for you if any of these sound familiar:

• You've been told that you need to contribute more in meetings.

• You hold back in meetings even when you have something valuable to add.

• You get talked over or interrupted, and you struggle to reclaim the floor.

• You watch other people make points you were going to make.

• You walk away from meetings with regret for not speaking sooner.

• You're early or mid-career and want to build the confidence to be heard.

• You don't want a confidence boot camp. You want practical, specific techniques that work in the room.

What You'll Work On

• The internal patterns that stop you contributing and how to interrupt them.

• Practical techniques for entering a conversation with weight, not hesitation.

• Holding your ground when someone speaks over or dismisses your point.

• Voice and breath techniques that steady you in the moment.

• Opening contributions with clarity rather than apology or over-explanation.

• Reading the room - knowing when to speak, and how.

What You'll Walk Away With

• A clear set of techniques to communicate with confidence you can apply in real time.

• An assessment of the habits holding you back.

• Prepared responses to real live situations you are currently facing.

• A warm up and preparation plan to contribute in your next meeting with confidence.

How it works

You'll spend 90 focused minutes one-to-one with a senior WAAPA practitioner in a private studio. The session is built around real material - we assess where you are, introduce the skills and frameworks that matter most for your situation, and work on your content with live feedback. The shape of the session is tailored to you: what you need, what you're preparing for, and where the time is best spent.

Format

Private Masterclass working 1:1 with a senior WAAPA practitioner.

Why a 90 minute intensive?

A traditional one-day workshop puts you in a room with 20 to 25 other people, working through generic exercises, with maybe 10 minutes of personalised attention if you're lucky. The frameworks are useful. The group dynamic is energising. But the practical reality is that you spend most of the day watching other people learn.

Our 90-minute private intensives are built differently. You work one-to-one with a senior WAAPA practitioner, on real material, in a private studio. Every minute of the session is focused on you. Your delivery, your habits, your situation, your goals. The feedback is immediate, specific, and rehearsed in the room rather than left to apply later.

This is why our clients consistently tell us they get more from 90 minutes here than from a full day elsewhere.