SOUL PRESENCE

Speak with Clarity and Inner Wisdom

Free yourself from becoming a disembodied voice—or an echo of others. This experience introduces three embodied, empowering entrypoints drawn from the craft of acting, designed to help you connect more deeply and express your authentic voice with clarity and presence. Through body, presence, and voice, you will learn to inhabit yourself more fully—and be heard. You don't need to become anything. Only to be fully present.

A 45–60 minute interactive, poetic talk with scientific insights, as Puk Scharbau's voice brings you back to ancient Greece and makes you more conscious of what it means to be present—the ability that is more crucial than ever. She shares insight into how scientists define wisdom and how you can speak your truth from your wisest self and refrain from becoming an echo. You will also get inspiration on human connection from French dialogue philosopher Martin Buber, and very practical hacks from the actor's toolbox to make an inner reset and become instantly more present and connected.

We humans can create a collective super brain when we are positively connected. As a leader of people, this is your gateway to work on connecting people to achieve what is known as the Hive Mind, the human superpower that is more important to activate than ever in this era of AI and digital super-connectedness. We must know how to tap into our human collective super brain.

The talk works as a stand alone or as the opening of a workshop.

“Soul Presence” in Athens, May 2026 - reviews from participants

Puk’s Soul Presence workshop was one of the highlights of a forum I recently attended. It was deeply inspiring, illuminating, and offered a powerful new perspective on what it truly means to be present.

In a world that speaks so much about executive presence, Puk introduced something far more meaningful: soul presence. Through practical yet incredibly powerful techniques, she reminded us that true presence allows us to listen more deeply, connect to our intuition, and tap into the deeper wisdom within ourselves. In doing so, we show up as more conscious, kind, and inspired versions ourselves. 

I left feeling genuinely uplifted and have continued using many of the practices since. I would highly recommend this workshop to anyone looking to lead and live with greater mindfulness, authenticity, and wisdom, Nanda Veldink.

Soul Presence is an essential guide on how to be a kinder and more authentic human being when interacting with other humans, be it in a work or private environment. You learn and practice how to see and welcome yourself and others with unconditional positive regard and you get out of the workshop one bit wiser. I am very grateful for the chance to take part in Soul Presence. Diyana Yancheva,

Thank you so much for everything The shared presence, knowledge, and experience. It was very, very special for me!

Why does so much well-designed communication not move anyone? This question came back to me in a small room at the Maria Callas Museum in Athens, in the middle of the World Beautiful Business Forum. It opened with a recorded voice asking, on loop, 'Are you there?'. Before any explanation, the room was placed right inside the absence she wanted to name. Better awareness, impossible.

She recovered the myth of Echo, the nymph cursed to never speak first, only to repeat. She cited the philosopher Martin Buber and the distinction between 'I-it' and 'I-thou': There are two ways of relating to another person: treating them as an object, or finding them as a unique human presence. Most strategies measure 'I-it' transactions, opens, clicks, conversions. But was the message able to treat the reader as someone unique? This is a capacity we are losing.Mobilization goes through mutual recognition of humanity. There is no technical shortcut to this, Renata Barbosa.

Our first workshop this morning was about having Soul Presence, by Puk Scharbau.
We explored the topic of Wisdom- seeing the world as it is. To have authentic presence requires an exploratory open mindset, ego transcendence (focus on the service of others) and the ability to regulate emotions (mind & body-setting)
When we walk into the room and wish to connect with people, how do we truly stay present? Our brain is always looking for little flags of social cues because we want to be loved and accepted. We need to decide before we even step into the room that we are already enough as we are. This way, our body relaxes - if we feel good, we can expand our breathing, our body, our presence.
Another way to be fully present is to have unconditional positive regard for others and oneself.
One interesting practice we learnt was the act of "bubbling" others into your zone. When in conversation, imagine a jelly-like bubble surrounding you & the other, removing our barriers as "skin-bound entities" and instead looking at the other as a universal being like yourself 😊move out of "I-It" and into "I-You", to see and treat the other as a unique human being.
What a wonderful grounding start to the morning ❤️ Kai Ning Lim.