Previous post: https://community.alena.com/post/94170712
Hi Everyone,
For those of you who have seen my previous post, I had an event last week where I was an MC for my friend’s event and I wanted to share an update.
So, I took the advice from the comments (thank you!) to put some low music in the background to relax the environment and to have a drink in my hand to occupy my hands and I think it worked well for me. I think it showed in the atmosphere and in my body language.
During the whole evening, though, I still can’t help but feel that I could’ve done better — that I made too many awkward pauses and stumbled through my words the whole time but people were just too nice to say anything.
However, one of my friends who attended actually told me that I only did so in the beginning and that I did well afterwards which surprised me because it felt like it happened for longer than it did.
I guess this is something that I need to remind myself as someone with social anxiety, that often times the perception of myself in my head and in other’s view is different. So, I’m actually quite grateful that this was brought to my attention and hopefully I continue to grow from this experience.
On the positive note, if you are hosting, extra tip that I learnt from my evening was to be clear about the agenda before hand so you know what to do and might need to say during the event.