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InvitationalInvitationalSpeakingSpeaking

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Invitational SpeakingInvitational Speaking

Clarify positionsClarify positions Explore issues & ideasExplore issues & ideas Articulate beliefs & Articulate beliefs &

valuesvalues Continue public Continue public

dialoguedialogue

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Invitational SpeakingInvitational SpeakingEnvironmentEnvironment

Understanding, Understanding, respecting & respecting & appreciating range of appreciating range of positions possible on an positions possible on an issueissue

Even if those positions Even if those positions are different from the are different from the speaker’sspeaker’s

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Conditions for Conditions for Invitational Invitational EnvironmentEnvironment

EqualityEquality ValueValue Self-determinationSelf-determination

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Condition of EqualityCondition of Equality

See audience as See audience as holding valid holding valid perspectives & perspectives & positions worthy of positions worthy of explorationexploration

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Condition of Value Condition of Value

Recognizing views of Recognizing views of audience, although audience, although different, have inherent different, have inherent valuevalue

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Condition ofCondition ofSelf-DeterminationSelf-Determination

Recognizing members of Recognizing members of audience are experts in audience are experts in their own livestheir own lives

Recognizing people know Recognizing people know what is best for them & what is best for them & have right to make have right to make choices about their liveschoices about their lives

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Types ofTypes ofInvitational SpeechesInvitational Speeches

To articulate a positionTo articulate a position To explore an issueTo explore an issue

See Amanda Bucknam’sInvitational Speech in the text on p. 353

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To Articulate a To Articulate a PositionPosition

Explain position & Explain position & discuss with audience discuss with audience so they might so they might understand you & your understand you & your position more fullyposition more fully

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To Explore an IssueTo Explore an Issue

To discover what To discover what audience thinksaudience thinks

To understand To understand audience’s viewsaudience’s views

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Speeches toSpeeches toArticulate a PositionArticulate a Position

Invite audience to see Invite audience to see the world as you do & the world as you do & to understand issues to understand issues from your perspectivefrom your perspective

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Speeches toSpeeches toExplore an IssueExplore an Issue

Engage audience in Engage audience in discussion about an discussion about an idea, concern, topic, or idea, concern, topic, or plan of actionplan of action

See Cara Buckley-Ott’s speech at the Interactive Student and Professional Speeches Website.

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Organizational Organizational Patterns for Patterns for Invitational SpeechesInvitational Speeches

ChronologicalChronological SpatialSpatial TopicalTopical Multiple PerspectivesMultiple Perspectives

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Multiple Perspectives Multiple Perspectives PatternPattern

Allows speaker to Allows speaker to address many sides & address many sides & positions of an issuepositions of an issue

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Tips for Giving Tips for Giving EffectiveEffectiveInvitational SpeechesInvitational Speeches

Know your positionKnow your position Use invitational Use invitational

languagelanguage Allow time for Allow time for

discussiondiscussion

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EqualityEquality

All positions have meritAll positions have merit Positions are viable for Positions are viable for

people who hold them, people who hold them, even if not for youeven if not for you

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Use Invitational Use Invitational LanguageLanguage

Offers speaker’s view as Offers speaker’s view as one possible view but not one possible view but not as “the best” viewas “the best” view

Use phrases that display Use phrases that display respect for & openness to respect for & openness to other positionsother positions

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Ethical Ethical Invitational SpeakingInvitational Speaking

Presenting a topic that Presenting a topic that the speaker is open to the speaker is open to discussingdiscussing

Purpose is mutual Purpose is mutual understandingunderstanding