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Delivering keynotes in person and online, Clare's audiences leave energised, with a renewed sense of wonder and awe.
Specialising in Keynotes for conferences and international festivals.
Since 2006, Clare Murphy has given storytelling keynotes and training around the world.
She effortlessly serves the needs of each client, drawing from her huge repertoire of stories and experiences to connect the audience with wonder and awe.
As a Keynote Speaker, Clare has delivered to all kinds of teams, from the National Theatre to the All Blacks, from Emergency Medical Teams to Olympic Sports Coaches. She has performed stories for the President of Ireland, Mary Robinson and at the Globe Theatre.
Working with limbless veterans using true stories to teach resilience to teenagers, she’s also worked with hospital personnel during the pandemic to build better team culture and with school children to increase oracy.
Bookings: info@claremurphy.org
Clare is represented in Australia by Saxton Speakers
Current Keynotes:
- How to Stop Telling Boring Stories
- The Power of Narrative
- How Story Builds Powerful Team Culture
- Belonging, Community & Story; How we belong to each other
Keynotes Available Below:
How To Stop Telling Boring Stories
Delivered in one-hour, this is a hilarious interactive keynote. Everyone knows what boring speaking looks like, and everyone is terrified it’ll be them. It comes down to the belief that we’re either natural both storytellers or we’re not.
The truth is that yes some people are born with a skill for story, but the rest learn it. It’s a muscle and it can be improved with practice.
That practice is delivered playfully by Clare. Your fears will dissolve in laughter as you understand how the skills of storytelling can easily be applied.
She delivers straightforward tools to help anyone tell a great story. These skills make team meetings more bearable, speeches enjoyable and let’s face it, life worth living.
The fear of public speaking is quite high in the list of fears, often placed above the fear of death, but never above the fear of spiders. Clares work will put passion and communication at the heart of your delivery.
You won’t realize until later how much you’ve learned along the way.
The Power of Narrative
What if you could turn on the cinema of the mind of your audiences?
In this keynote Clare takes you on a journey exploring the power that stories have always had through human history. She delves into the immense capacity story has to change the world for the better (or blow it up). Understanding the Power of Narrative is fundamental on a human, organizational and world level.
Our brains have evolved to make meaning out of the world through story.
Clare unpacks the role empathy plays in creating loyalty, trust, connection and community. When people care, they remember and carry your story forward.
This keynote shows how story is a force for transformational good in the world.
Story is the vehicle that carries meaning from one generation to the next. When we understand that, we change the world.
How Story Builds Powerful Team Culture
In this keynote Clare highlights how attending to the story of your organisation will make you a stronger team. A notable example is a team from Quantico, who’ve started to bring in fireside telling as part of their leadership training course for military police.
When you have a culture where you can’t tell the stories of what has happened or is happening, you choke out the team’s capacity for growth, belonging and connection. Story-work allows for exploration of the whole team and the whole human. Clare explains that the trick is to take away the idea that storytelling is this longwinded Kumbaya kind of thing and shows how to start using stories with intentionality. This increases empathy, appreciation, understanding and reflection within your team.
When we attend to the Story of our organization, we understand our origins; where we’ve come from and where we want to go.
If you don’t know who you are as an organization then someone else will tell your story better than you do.
It’s time to take the Power of Story into your team and into your culture.
Belonging, Community & Story. How We Belong To Each Other
Clare weaves her magic in this keynote that focuses on what it means to affirm and reaffirm community wherever we find it with storytelling as the key. We have to design culture that creates belonging.
True community is about Connection, Belonging and Becoming (Sacred Design Lab). Acting as a guide, Clare unpacks how community comes from the connections we make and reaffirming them regularly. One of the most effective ways to create these connections is through Story.
Join Clare as she shares stories of some of the greatest teams in the world who know and do this. Even in time-poor high-stress environments these teams prioritize Story to reinforce a healthy culture.
Significant change happens when stories are told in a community that cares to listen. Bonding, healing and transformation take place.
‘Every time I tell my story I release something from inside of me that’s been killing me.’
Limbless Veteran, Blesma: Limbless Veterans Project.