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Welcome to Phoenix Again

Feel confident about using your voice!

Be more effective and keep your voice healthy through individual or group sessions – whether you want to speak or sing, or both.

How you sound may make a far greater impression than what you say!

In many situations the impact of your message is in the delivery – not so much what you say as the way you say it! How you sound combined with how you look can subtly alter the meaning of the words you use and affect the way you are perceived and understood by your listener! On the phone your voice has an even more important role to play.

Your voice reflects who you are and how you feel. If it lacks passion and clarity, it will not deliver your message convincingly. This is where voice training and coaching can make a vital difference.

Wear and tear on voices in the workplace

New information suggests over 5 million people are routinely affected with occupational voice loss at an annual cost of £200 million to UK plc. (http://www.hazards.org/voiceloss/workhoarse.htm)

Teachers, lecturers, business executives, broadcasters, call centre workers, lawyers, politicians and the clergy are all prime candidates for vocal problems and regularly need to seek help and advice about their voices.

Take care of your voice before it lets you down.

And what about singing?

Many people consider they are unable to sing and yet they long ‘to have a go’
Even if you are terrified by the idea of having a singing session, it is well-known in the voice world that using your singing voice can strengthen your speaking voice and many business clients can vouch for this having dared to put it to the test!

Using your voice to sing is a healthy activity. It can enhance aerobic and cardio-vascular performance and release feel-good hormones which help to relieve the stresses and strains of everyday life.


As well as strengthening and improving your presentation and communication skills, working on your voice actually helps you to think more clearly and feel better through improved confidence and mind-body-voice coordination.

 

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About Phoenix Again

Phoenix Again was started in 1991 by Liz McNaughton who delivers voice training for speaking and singing either privately or on a corporate level.

Liz McNaughton

Liz McNaughton MA, LLB

  • teaching and researching both speaking and singing voice for more than thirty years

  • background of teaching in the primary sector and teaching English as a Foreign Language in Sweden and the UK.

  • several years working for BBC Radio in the World Service as studio manager, writer, presenter and producer

  • turned attention to studying and teaching voice full time

  • spoken voice clients range from private individuals needing one-to-one help to sort out problems and build more confidence to corporate group workshops

  • clients include business executives, sales managers, teachers, student teachers, lawyers, priests and carers

  • singing clients range from complete beginners including those with pitching problems to performers on the West End stage

  • taught singing in schools and colleges including the BRIT School and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

  • workshops for a wide range of groups from barbershop to teachers for toddlers

  • referral work from laryngologists and speech and language therapists and clinical excellence CPD meetings

  • some involvement in social projects helping the single homeless and those with drug and alcohol dependence problems to be more vocally confident and so improve self-esteem

  • current research involves working with special needs and neurological diseases and the voice

  • free paper and poster presentations at the Pan-European Voice Conferences in Stockholm, Sweden (2001), Graz, Austria (2003) and London, UK (2005) and the Physiology and Acoustics of the Singing Voice (PAS2) in Denver, Colorado, USA (2004) and (PAS3) York, UK (2006)

Freelance Voice Specialist: Phoenix Again – Voice Tuition for Speech and Song

Tutor, Voice Care Network UK

Sounds of Intent Research Team, Institute of Education, University of London

Singing for the Brain Project – Alzheimer’s Society West Berkshire

Organising Committee for Pan-European Voice Conference 2005 (PEVOC6), Royal Academy of Music, London

Member of British Voice Association, served on Council and Communications
and Awards Working Parties
— Association of Teachers of Singing
— Oxford Voice Special Interest Group

 

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