How silly or serious should I be? #storytelling #bible #leadership #jesus #teaching #preaching

2 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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Adjust your gestures to your audience size and age. Big groups need big movements. Small groups of older listeners work better seated and restrained. Mixed ages let you layer in energy for kids and substance for adults.

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That when you are telling stories, think about the audience that's in front of you when it comes to gestures. I often get asked by people, how do you know what, you know, whether, what to do as far as, does it make you feel silly to do big gestures and stuff? My general rule is this. The bigger the audience, the bigger the gestures I'll do. The smaller the age group, so the younger the audience, the bigger gestures I'll do. So if I have a group of 5 youth. I'm not going to be jumping around telling my story. I'm going to be sitting still like they are and talking to them. If, on the other hand, I have a group of 100-year— 5-year-olds, I'm going to be all over the place because they love that. One of the reasons I love to tell stories to a mixed age group is because you can act up for the little ones, and some of the big ones kind of enjoy it and they laugh about it. And you can say something fairly deep and serious for the older kids, and some of the younger kids will go, "Oh, I get that."