SFN November 9 - Attention Olympics: Competing Against Distraction and Keeping Your Audience Engaged with Jonathan Lee

 

Attention Olympics: Competing Against Distraction and Keeping Your Audience Engaged Unravel what's holding back your audience from doing exactly what you ask them to do when you ask them to do it. About the session    As facilitators, we’re constantly working with one invisible thing: "attention". When people are paying attention, they’re more likely to understand what we’re saying, follow instructions, participate in an activity, and remember something afterwards. But attention isn't guaranteed - the techniques that work with 5 people in a room may not work with 50 people online, or 500 people in a large gathering. So how do we actually get better at directing, sustaining and shifting audience attention? And why not get good at this given facilitating is partly the art of getting people to pay attention to the right thing at the right time… The premise isn't simply “How do I keep people engaged?” That's a very common facilitator concern. It's “What is happening to my audience's attention right now - and what can I actually do about it?”

About our presenter  Jonathan Lee is an experience artist, facilitator, and founder of Utopia Rising, with over 25 years of involvement in personal development.  He excels at coming up with original ideas and has a soft spot to level the playing field when introverts and extroverts come together.