Stepping Out of Social Anxiety (CCI self-help workbook)
by Centre for Clinical Interventions · Centre for Clinical Interventions (WA Health)
Free ten-module CBT workbook from clinical psychologists at the Centre for Clinical Interventions in Western Australia. Covers negative thinking, avoidance, behavioural-experiment stepladders, safety behaviours, self-focused attention, and how you think you appear to others, with worksheets.
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toastmasters.org
Toastmasters.org is the official site of Toastmasters International, a nonprofit network that helps people improve public speaking and leadership through local clubs and a structured education program. It provides program descriptions, Pathways learning resources, club finder, event information, and practical tips for speeches and leadership development.
Toastmasters International
Toastmasters International's free hub of public speaking guides covering how to write, practise and deliver a speech, manage stage fright, and prepare for specific occasions such as business presentations, wedding toasts and eulogies. Suited to first-time speakers wanting practical, structured advice.
Public Speaking Tips For Beginners
Patrick Winston's annual MIT lecture on presenting technical ideas. He covers openings, blackboard versus slides, framing a contribution, and closing a talk, giving you a concrete checklist for structuring lectures and conference presentations.
How to Speak So That People Want to Listen
Sound consultant Julian Treasure names seven habits that undermine credibility and four foundations of trustworthy speech, then demonstrates vocal tools including register, timbre, pace, pitch, and volume. Viewers get a concrete warm-up and a checklist for being heard.
Brief Structured Respiration Practices Enhance Mood and Reduce Physiological Arousal
Stanford randomized controlled trial (Cell Reports Medicine, 2023) comparing five minutes a day of cyclic sighing, box breathing, cyclic hyperventilation, or mindfulness meditation over a month. Exhale-focused cyclic sighing gave the largest mood gains and the largest drop in respiratory rate.
Get Excited: Reappraising Pre-Performance Anxiety as Excitement
This is the original study behind the most-repeated 'reframe nerves as excitement' advice. Harvard Business School experiments (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2014) testing whether people should calm down or reappraise anxiety as excitement before public speaking, karaoke and math tasks. Saying 'I am excited' improved performance compared with trying to calm down.