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Across Indonesia
Interactive online sessions over Zoom with screen-share and recording, from anywhere with a stable connection. The Retora Discord community sits alongside it for peer practice.

From nervous in front of five people to holding a room on your own. The route runs through five levels in order, and every session is recorded and reviewed with your trainer so you can see what changed for yourself.
Retora public speaking and MC classes in Denpasar are open to anyone wanting to host events in two languages, destination receptions, or company gatherings on an international scale. The contexts used most here: a natural language switch, receptions around Nusa Dua and Ubud, and tourism events. A public speaking class is structured practice for speaking in front of people with confidence, from breath control through to arranging what you say. At Retora the route runs through 5 levels from Fundamental to Signature, and every session is recorded and reviewed with a trainer.
Denpasar and the areas around it have become a destination for events on an international scale. Destination receptions in Nusa Dua, Ubud, and Sanur often bring couples and guests from abroad, so the host moves between Indonesian and English throughout. Company gatherings, cruise events, and hospitality industry activity add the same demand.
Many receptions in this area bring couples and guests from Australia, Japan, and Europe. The host keeps the event followable for guests who do not speak Indonesian.
The standard here asks for a flowing switch between Indonesian and English, including adjusting tone and nuance in both without an awkward gap.
Company gatherings held in Bali by firms from other cities, cruise events, and hospitality industry activity such as chef and hotelier meetups make a context that is formal and international at once.
Available as an option if you want to host Balinese ceremonial receptions along with the refined Balinese register, alongside the main bilingual track.
60 to 90 minutes per session
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60 to 90 minutes per session
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A leveled coaching ladder. You move up a level only after the previous stage is proven solid, so the foundation stays intact.
The Confidence-Craft-Command method adapts to Denpasar. On the Craft side, you practise a two language event frame along with the tone adjustment that comes with switching. On the Command side, you practise facing guests across cultures and keeping a reception sequence running to time. The Confidence-Craft-Command method puts the work in an order that makes sense. Mental foundation first, because the best frame in the world falls apart while your breath is still short. Then the craft of arranging content, and last the command of a room.
You practise 4-4-4 breathing, how you stand, and how to recover when your mind suddenly goes blank. Practice starts with a small audience, and the number is raised slowly until being watched stops getting in the way.
You practise frames you can call up within seconds, such as PREP for answering questions and STAR for telling a story. The work also covers an opening that lands, a body in order, and a close that ties it together.
You practise vocal variety, pauses given room, and building a short story so listeners stay with you to the last sentence. At this point the recordings start getting used to compare one week against the next.
You practise adjusting tempo as the attention of a room shifts, taking in questions that press without rushing to answer, and recovering the thread when an event slips off plan.
Every session is recorded and reviewed with your trainer against timestamped notes. Habits such as a filler word that keeps returning or a voice that drops at the end of a sentence show up most clearly on the recording.
Speaking with confidence stands on several skills that can be trained separately and then brought together. Here is what this route works on.
The ability to speak off the cuff that looks like a gift almost always stands on a pattern drilled until it became automatic.
Breathe in for four counts, hold for four, out for four. Used before you go up and when your mind starts racing, so your voice has steady power behind it.
Point, Reason, Example, Point. A four part frame you can call up within seconds, well suited to answering an unexpected question without losing direction.
Situation, Task, Action, Result. Used when you need to tell a story with evidence, such as explaining work experience or describing traction to a prospective investor.
Rise and fall in the voice, along with pauses given room, make an important sentence sound important. This separates the explanation that gets remembered from the one that passes by.
The session recording is reviewed with your trainer against timestamped notes, so what gets fixed is what genuinely happened.
Moving up is decided by a measurable target at each level, so you know where you stand without guessing.
You are ready to start if you want to host destination receptions around Nusa Dua or Ubud, if you work in hospitality and need to present in two languages, or if you are beginning to handle company gatherings with participants from several countries. There is no experience requirement to join. Your starting point is mapped in the initial consultation, and the rough picture looks like this.
The earliest part, and the one people most often skip when learning alone. Without steady breath, the best frame in the world falls apart the moment you stand up.
The part that gets what is in your head out in order, including when the situation is sudden and there was no time to prepare notes.
The same content can be remembered or forgotten depending on how it is delivered. Here the work is voice, pause, and the shape of a story.
The part that most often costs people marks arrives after the presentation ends, when the questions start coming.
The recording becomes the measure, so moving up a level is decided by something visible instead of a feeling that things went better.
A general English course works on grammar and conversation, leaving hosting untouched. Learning event by event builds hours with nobody correcting your language switch. Retora works on exactly that, across five levels in order with a recording reviewed every week. All three routes can add to your speaking ability. What separates them is how measurable your progress is and who is listening to how you speak.
Each session runs 60 minutes. Pricing is the same for online nationwide and on-site across 10 tier-1 cities. Larger packages cost less per session.
Enrolment starts from the smallest package of 4 sessions; single sessions cannot be paid one at a time. Pay in full up front, or in two parts: 50% when classes start and the remaining 50% midway through the package.
Every session is recorded and reviewed with a trainer against timestamped notes, so you know exactly which part changed and which part has not.
Each level carries a measurable target, such as delivering a 3 to 5 minute speech without stalling midway. You move up once that target is met.
Practice starts from breathing and gradual exposure, because the best frame in the world falls apart while your breath is still short when you stand up.
PREP and STAR are drilled until they become automatic, so your answer stays in order even when you build it live in front of people.
Retora trainers are experienced and skilled in their field, with real time speaking in public. Matched to your level and schedule availability.
Weekly peer practice and delivery events give you a chance to perform in front of people who are not your classmates, so your practice gets tested closer to the real thing.
Once you complete the programme, you receive a certificate of appreciation from Retora as a record that you finished it. It is recognition from Retora, separate from professional certification issued by official bodies.
What you practise is the switch itself, holding your tempo steady, adjusting tone in both languages, and avoiding the awkward gap that appears when you change mid-segment.
A reception with international guests brings its own demands, from short explanations of Indonesian traditions through to tighter timing because of the venue schedule.
You practise explaining local traditions to guests from abroad in short sentences, reading expectations that differ between cultures, and keeping the event comfortable for both sides of the room.
The figures below come from the time range of each level in the curriculum, and they are a general picture. Everyone moves at a different pace depending on how often you practise and how often you actually perform.
Your starting point has been mapped. 4-4-4 breathing becomes a habit before you go up. You deliver a 3 minute speech to five people without stalling midway.
The PREP or STAR frame comes up without long thought. You deliver a 10 minute presentation with a clear opening and close, and the recording shows filler words starting to fall away.
Vocal variety and the shape of a story start showing in your delivery. You deliver a 20 minute speech people follow to the end, including the question session after it.
You can face an audience of 50 and above with questions that press, and you begin to have a speaking style people recognise as yours.
We say this early so your time and ours are both protected. If any of the points above sit badly, there may be another option that suits you better.
Across Indonesia
Interactive online sessions over Zoom with screen-share and recording, from anywhere with a stable connection. The Retora Discord community sits alongside it for peer practice.
Coach is ready to train in person in these cities via traveling coach.
Fill in the registration form, and the Retora team helps set the starting point that makes the most sense for your situation. Want to host destination receptions or bilingual company events in Bali?