Good Shout
Webinars and community
At Good Shout we’re dedicated to helping people learn to love learning.
There’s so much wonderful stuff to digest outside of the fast-paced trending topics in social media. Humans are freaky little goblins: understanding our little quirks is key to being a better leader and liver!
That’s why we have our series of WEIRD WEBINARS.
They cover amazing topics across how we think, communicate and interact with others - but are totally accessible for all. A small fee means that we can keep running them, and share profits with the presenters.
What do you get?
A refreshing subject tackled in the typical Good Shout surprising and delightful way
Lots of interaction (if you want it) and live conversations with great people
A change to hear the Good Shout jingle EVERY TIME YOU ATTEND
A recording of the session for you to keep
Collab with us
There’s also the opportunity to partner with us on a webinar that we promote to our community. We charge between £10 and £50 a ticket, have a session with you to provide guidance on your content and how to really engage the room, and split the revenues with you 50/50. Our share goes to supporting our charity, Good Shout for Girls, which gives free public speaking training to girls in the UK between the age of 11 and 16.
*Please note, we’re very strict with the topics we pick. The webinar theme has to be geared towards making society better in some way. Please don’t apply if you’re simply pushing a product or on a book promo tour, unless you’re giving us a mindblowing spin on the topic.
Apply to collab on a webinar with us:
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Look around you. Everyone’s shouting at each other, trolling each other, complaining about algorithms and declining reach. Social media has become a swamp of deep fakes and outright lies, which users happily share within their echo chambers.
And we’re suffering. Our desire for attention and validation has grown, and our mental health has declined.
Our kids are suffering. 10 year old beauty influencers have hundreds of thousands of followers and young people are actively trying to deal with addictive devices we gave them. This webinar is about what we do next.
You might think you know everything there is to know about swearing. But the words that shock, excite, and offend us are commonly used and wildly under appreciated. Swearing can improve our health, punch up our points, and help us seem genuinely trustworthy. Or it can offend, damage our credibility, and have expensive social costs. Profanity is an almost universal form of language that we’re rarely taught to leverage for its full potential.
This webinar, with writer and Good Shout facilitator Na’Imah Laurent-Dixon, explores what our favourite swear words reveal about our cultural values, how swearing well can help you to say it better, and what pitfalls to avoid if you want to curse without ruining your relationships or your career.
Being human is messy and full of contradictions. Take our relationships with strangers, for example. Conversations with strangers can be awkward!! We dislike wondering what to say next, dread prolonged silence, and think about how we can exit a conversation before it has even begun. Yet our connection to strangers is almost as important as drinking water.
We’ve all heard the advice: “Don’t speak to strangers.” It’s used to keep us and the people we love safe, which of course is important. But alongside the stories of strangers being shitty, there are lovely stories too. Moments that make our days better. A door being held open, a shared laugh, random words of wisdom that we still remember years on.
With rising reports of loneliness and feelings of disconnect, Good Shout's Aziza O'Beirne wondered: Are there long-term benefits to these (sometimes) awkward conversations with strangers? (Yes, there is.) This webinar will help you get these benefits and will have you thinking differently about your everyday conversations.
Are you worried you lack impact in meetings? Find yourself waffling, going on too long or off at a tangent? Do you circle your point without ever seeming to get there? Completely baffled by why you’re doing it or how to stop? Think it’s just a ‘you’ thing that can’t be fixed? Think again.
This session from journalist and broadcaster Morag Cuddeford-Jones will help you nail down your thoughts, cut the waffle and the jargon and let you say what you really mean, all killer – no filler.
There’s a difference between listening and waiting to speak. There’s also a difference between speaking up and talking over. And when it comes to supporting women, there’s a difference between standing up and lifting up. The socialisation of the genders means that we’ve been primed to communicate in fundamentally different ways, but that doesn’t mean we can’t fix it.
Good Shout's Gav Owen is a man, and he's designed this session is for other men who genuinely want to get it right, but aren't always sure what "right" looks like. This session offers a practical, honest conversation about tackling everyday misogyny, the moments that matter, and what it actually sounds (and feels) like when men listen brilliantly.
All of us are weird. It's just that some of us are better at hiding it than others. And Good Shout CEO Amy Kean has a hypothesis: the weirder we each allow ourselves to be, the happier and more creative we'll be as a result. But it's not easy defying norms in a society that wants us to be so very, very bland. This webinar will convince you that weird is the way forward, and show you how to use your weirdness more in everyday life.