IN-PERSON Workshop
Speak from the Center of Who You Are
Speak from the Center of Who You Are
with Patrick McAndrew
and Eric Weiss
New York City
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Two-Day Workshop
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November 15–16, 2025
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Two Days to Come Back to Yourself.
You already have a voice, but it doesn’t always feel like it’s really you.
You speak every day: in conversations, in work, in life, yet sometimes it feels like something gets lost along the way.
This workshop isn’t about learning to sound better.
It’s about feeling connected to what you’re saying.
And feeling confident and assured in how you communicate.
When you speak from that place, people don’t just hear you.
They feel you.
You already have a voice — but it doesn’t always feel like yours.
You can win the room, impress the crowd, and still feel disconnected from yourself.
This isn’t about technique. It’s about connection — to yourself, to others, to the moment.
When you’re connected to your voice, people feel it. They listen. They remember.
What Happens Over These Two Days
This workshop is a place to practice being human again.
To slow down, take the pressure off, and rediscover how it feels to express yourself without forcing it.
You’ll move and get into your body so you can feel grounded and solid when you speak.
You’ll look at the stories you tell about yourself, your work, and your life, and learn to strip away what’s practiced or protective so the truth can come through.
You’ll try different ways of expressing yourself and notice what feels most real and alive.
It’s not about performance or polish.
It’s about presence.
About giving yourself the space to reconnect with it.
You’ll leave feeling more at ease in your body, clearer in your words, and more connected to what you’re here to say.
You don’t need another skill. You just need to feel yourself in the words again.
In two days, you’ll learn to get out of your head and into the moment.
To stop managing how you sound and start trusting what’s true.
When that happens, everything sharpens — your delivery, your ideas, your presence.
You’ll leave clearer, faster, more connected — not from trying harder, but from finally getting out of your own way.
It doesn’t take months.
It happens in the room.
What You’ll Walk Away With
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A voice that feels like home.
Not rehearsed. Not careful. Just honest, alive, and unmistakably yours.
A voice that feels like home.
Not rehearsed. Not careful. Just honest, alive, and unmistakably yours.
A voice that feels like home.
Not rehearsed. Not careful. Just honest, alive, and unmistakably yours.
Freedom from overthinking.
You’ll stop editing yourself mid-sentence and start trusting what you already know.
Freedom from overthinking.
You’ll stop editing yourself mid-sentence and start trusting what you already know.
Freedom from overthinking.
You’ll stop editing yourself mid-sentence and start trusting what you already know.
Communication that moves people.
In conversation or leadership, your words will carry weight because they come from truth.
Communication that moves people.
In conversation or leadership, your words will carry weight because they come from truth.
Communication that moves people.
In conversation or leadership, your words will carry weight because they come from truth.
A fuller expression of who you are.
You’ll speak with the ease of someone who trusts what they’re saying.
A fuller expression of who you are.
You’ll speak with the ease of someone who trusts what they’re saying.
A fuller expression of who you are.
You’ll speak with the ease of someone who trusts what they’re saying.
When your real voice comes through, everything aligns.
How you lead. How you connect. How you live.
Why It Matters
Why It Matters
When you find your voice, you don’t just communicate differently.
You move through the world differently, as someone who finally sounds like themselves.
Who This Is For
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs
Creatives
Creatives
Creatives
Leaders
Leaders
Leaders
Anyone who wants their communication to feel real and genuine.
Anyone who wants their communication to feel real and genuine.
Anyone who wants their communication to feel real and genuine.
This is for anybody who wants to express themselves more truthfully.
You don’t need to be a public speaker to join.
Meet Your Guides
Meet Your Guides
Patrick McAndrew
CEO & Keynote Speaker
Patrick helps people reconnect with themselves, the place their real voice comes from. He works with entrepreneurs and leaders who want to lead from their center, to feel steady in who they are rather than how they think they should be.
Patrick McAndrew
CEO & Keynote Speaker
Patrick helps people reconnect with themselves, the place their real voice comes from. He works with entrepreneurs and leaders who want to lead from their center, to feel steady in who they are rather than how they think they should be.
Patrick McAndrew
CEO & Keynote Speaker
Patrick helps people reconnect with themselves, the place their real voice comes from. He works with entrepreneurs and leaders who want to lead from their center, to feel steady in who they are rather than how they think they should be.
Eric Weiss
Executive Director, Santa Fe Improv
Eric has spent decades helping people rediscover the parts of themselves that expression forgot. Through improvisation, he helps people loosen the habits that keep them contained and find freedom in spontaneity. His approach is simple. When you stop trying to get it right, you start to come alive.
Eric Weiss
Executive Director, Santa Fe Improv
Eric has spent decades helping people rediscover the parts of themselves that expression forgot. Through improvisation, he helps people loosen the habits that keep them contained and find freedom in spontaneity. His approach is simple. When you stop trying to get it right, you start to come alive.
Eric Weiss
Executive Director, Santa Fe Improv
Eric has spent decades helping people rediscover the parts of themselves that expression forgot. Through improvisation, he helps people loosen the habits that keep them contained and find freedom in spontaneity. His approach is simple. When you stop trying to get it right, you start to come alive.
Together, Patrick and Eric create a space that feels honest and alive.
A place where you can explore, experiment, and reconnect with what’s true.
Where growth happens through discovery, not performance.
Speak like yourself again.
Because the most powerful voice in any room — is the one that’s real.
The Details
OpenJar Studios, New York City
November 15–16, 2025
Limited to 12 participants
The Details
OpenJar Studios, New York City
November 15–16, 2025
Limited to 12 participants
The Details
OpenJar Studios, New York City
November 15–16, 2025
Limited to 12 participants
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