This is a 3-week live course scheduled for the following dates and times:
Thursdays, November 5, 12, and 19, 2026
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. PST
What You’ll Learn
Stage fright is one of the most common challenges singing teachers face with their students, and one of the least addressed in teacher training. This course gives singing teachers a practical, structured approach to understanding, identifying, and addressing performance anxiety in their singers.
Grounded in current research in performance psychology, nervous system regulation, and acceptance-based approaches, the course moves well beyond generic relaxation tips. Teachers will leave with a repeatable assessment framework, a toolkit of evidence-based techniques, and the skills to integrate this work directly into their lessons and song application, including adapting to each student’s unique learning style, personality type, and anxiety profile.
Each session combines short input from the facilitator with group discussion, case studies, and activities designed to make the material immediately applicable. Between sessions, participants are encouraged to try techniques with real students and bring those experiences back to the group.
This course is for teachers who:
- have students who experience stage fright in any form – from mild nerves to severe performance anxiety
- are already using informal approaches and want a more structured, consistent framework
- want to feel more confident addressing performance anxiety within the context of their teaching
No prior specialist knowledge in psychology or performance science is required. The course assumes some teaching experience.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the physiological and psychological mechanisms behind stage fright, including how the nervous system responds to performance stress
- Identify stage fright in their students – recognising physical, emotional, and behavioural signs across different levels of intensity
- Apply a structured Order of Assessment to select strategies appropriate for each individual student
- Use a range of evidence-based psychological and physiological techniques, adapted to the student’s learning style and personality type
- Integrate performance anxiety strategies into lessons and directly into song application
About Laura
Laura has fifteen years’ experience working with singers, and for most of that time, it has bothered her that the industry treats singers’ experiences as problems to be fixed, rather than something to be understood and worked with. In her experience, the feelings that show up – the nerves, the doubt, the voice and body that suddenly won’t do what it should – aren’t the enemy. They’re information. And when you know how to work with them rather than against them, everything changes. Not just in the moment, but in the whole way a singer shows up. That’s what her work is about. She brings together voice technique, breath and nervous system work, not as a formula, but as a way of helping each person find their own route to what they’re already capable of. She has helped countless singers experience tangible, lasting change that transcends their singing and performing to levels they didn’t know they could reach, and that is why she does it. She holds an Advanced Instructor certification with IVA, an MScR in Music from the University of Edinburgh, and is a Breathwork Teacher with Breathing Space. She works online with singers in the UK and voice teachers across the world.