The McGuire Programme Kicks Off the Year in Style in Belfast!
The McGuire Programme started 2025 with a bang, hosting its first course of the year in the heart of Belfast. This wasn’t just any course—it…
The McGuire Programme started 2025 with a bang, hosting its first course of the year in the heart of Belfast. This wasn’t just any course—it…
The McGuire Programme in Central Europe held its final course for 2024 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Over the intensive 3-day course, participants engaged in many transformative…
Last weekend, we held another transformative McGuire Programme course in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. This event drew a dedicated group of individuals from across Europe and…
DON’T MISS OUT! This summer, take the first step towards a more confident and empowered you with the McGuire Programme. Our last two transformative courses…
Welcome to the McGuire Programme’s workshop series ‘McGuire Programme Workshops for Effective Speech Beyond Stuttering’– the culmination of each intensive course designed to transform the…
As someone who recently attended a 3-day course with the McGuire Programme, I can attest to the importance and value of peer support. The course was intense and challenging, but the support and encouragement from my peers made all the difference.
Change takes considerable time and effort. Changing something like old stuttering behaviors takes considerable effort. You will need to put up with the discomfort, uncertainty, and hard work on a daily basis. Until such time that you have developed and grown into the person, you want to become.
One of the best ways to stay on top of your new habits is to create a better lifestyle for yourself. This can be done by setting goals and making changes every day. By taking on more challenging tasks and seeking out experiences, you can improve your quality of life. This applies to overcoming stuttering too, by learning new strategies and executing them in the real world.
When starting a conversation with a stranger, there is a very high probability that they will be receptive to you. We are by nature, social creatures, and as such, we generally welcome interactions with others. But for people who stutter this can be a fearful scenario and we wouldn’t dare interact for fear of rejection or simply not being understood. But now with the control taught by the programme, it’s made easier and starts to become fun.
My experience being on the programme and how it all led to a great interview experience.
Physical, psychological & emotional. The first day of the course, the physical day is always the hardest one. We are asking the new students to trust complete strangers as we are rewiring their speech completely.
We didn’t require lots of coaches, but we did have enough coaches to get a different voice and coaching style throughout the 3 intensive days. Having a small but lively and committed coaching team was essential to give our new student a sense of community and support. If we didn’t do this, it would only be the instructor who was teaching and coaching at the same time.