Hold an Underrepresented Speaker Workshop

Hold An Underrepresented Speaker workshop (aka “How to Own Your Expertise and Start Speaking at WordPress Events”)

About Workshop:

The flagship, proven effective workshop of the #WPDiversity group. This workshop is a “bridge” for underrepresented voices in WordPress go from, “I would never consider speaking at a WordPress event” or “I don’t know what to talk about” to being eager to start speaking.

The coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. material in both versions of the workshop covers:

Overcoming personal obstacles to speaking
Finding a topic that the community will be excited to hear

The “full” version goes on to help the speakers develop their talk, speaker kit, and stage presence. You can pick and choose to run any module or all 5.

Workshop Templates:

Full Underrepresented Speaker Workshop
A 5-hour hands-on, interactive workshop for the underrepresented members of your community to generate a few ideas for talks, an outline on one topic, a title, a pitch/proposal for applying to events, a bio, and a chance to practice speaking.
- English, Japanese, Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese BR (Brazil), Italian, Hindi
- Full workshop, up to 5 hour version. Option to pick and choose which of the 5 modules to run.

Shortened Underrepresented Speaker Workshop
A 2-hour, hands-on, interactive workshop to find a topic and boost your confidence for speaking at WP MeetupsMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. & WordCamps. This is the core content of the above full workshop. Recommended 1.5 to 2 hours.