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Bring your audience closer to you
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 16 2014 @ 14:29 pm CEST

I appreciate the sentiment, but I think in a small audience you also have to be careful not to make anyone feel uncomfortable, pressurised or too far out of their comfort zone. There are some introverts who are a valuable and precious part of any audience, but they'll walk out if you force them to do things they don't want to do. An audience is there for you to educate and/or entertain. I think it's good to encourage the atmosphere you personally want, but not to force it on any of your audience members. You'll run the risk of them avoiding you in future.

Bring your audience closer to you
Authored by: Dirk on Friday, May 16 2014 @ 14:46 pm CEST

Right, force is not an option. I did use the word "encourage" above. Most people will follow the encouragement, if phrased politely. Some won't and you shouldn't force those; and in fact I don't think you can really force them, even if you wanted - they would either leave or simply refuse to cooperate in any way from that point on (and neither is what you want, obviously).

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