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Public Speaking Fear By Thomas J. Humpton After establishing rapport, I would have the person describe to me just how they produce the fear they experience when thinking of speaking in public. I would lead them through what they see, hear, and feel as the fear develops, identifying the representational system(s) at work and the submodalities tha have the greatest influence for them. I would then systematically have them alter each of the submodalities, changing not only the structure of the imagined experience, but possibly also the content (e.g., hear funny voices instead of low monotone voices - coming from a bunch of mice dressed as people). When I find they can imagine speaking and doing it without the fear, I kinesthetically anchor that response. I would then have them imagine watching themselves (dissociated) speaking in public at some future time when they will have this (anchored) resource, and are speaking with complete confidence. Separating the person now and the future person is a clear plexiglass wall. I would then have them imagine the future person stop speaking, turn and smile at them, have the plexiglass wall raise, and have them slowly pull the future person and all their resources, into them. I would then break state, and future pace to test. A powerful stacked anchor (confidence, humor, flexibility, etc.), that the person can self-fire when the time to speak actually comes, would probably be an effective resource to add.
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