Why DO we do professional development? We're already professionals! What IS comfort zone and when should we be in it or out of it? Dr Gillyanne Kayes and Jeremy Fisher chat about comfort zone, continuing professional development (CPD) and their most recent injection of new thoughts via voice surgeons and SLTs. Why they attended a phoniatricians' conference and what they learned about extreme voice (distortions), vocal tremor, transgender voice surgery and themselves. Part 1 of 2. 0:00 Introduction 0:32 What is comfort zone? When should you be in it? 1:21 Our own CPD at a conference with voice surgeons 4.25 Finding your place in the world 7:25 Getting nervous and the effect on Jeremy's voice 9:20 Cathrine Sadolin and extreme vocal sounds 11.47 Nerves, experience and fitting in 18:10 Being flexible with your presentation 20:15 Watching transgender voice operations 23:32 Learning about vocal tremor 25:03 Declarative or procedural learning and Kittie Verdolini Abbott Kittie Verdolini Abbott's article on how singers learn is here https://learningmethods.com/downloads/pdf/verdolini--principles.of.skill.acquisition.pdf Jeremy's video on breaking down the concepts in Kittie's article is here https://youtu.be/utNmfLG8A0w We teach multiple onsets/offsets in the online course Best Practice Update, part of the Learning Lounge Deep Dive. Here's a free preview of the hover breath going into the smooth onset - check it out! https://vocal-process-hub.teachable.com/courses/learning-lounge-l2-deep-dive/lectures/30620222 And here's the link to the Learning Lounge Essentials and Deep Dive https://vocalprocess.co.uk/learning-lounge/ Here's the link to the new International Association of TransVoice Surgeons https://transvoicesurgeons.com/ We've also got this! ↓ For real 1-1 attention on your own voice, book a voice coaching session in the singing studio with Jeremy or Gillyanne https://DrGillyanneKayesJeremyFisherInspirationSession.as.me/ The 12 Hours to Better Singing Teaching course online, with voice coaching techniques, vocal articulation exercises and a LOT more for the up-to-date singing teacher is here https://vocal-process-hub.teachable.com/p/12-hours-to-better-singing-teaching For the best self-guided learning, check out the Vocal Process Learning Lounge - 22 years of vocal coaching resources (over 600 videos) for less than the price of one private singing lesson. Click  on the link and choose a Level https://vocalprocess.co.uk/learning-lounge/ If you want to discover if our singing teacher training programme works for YOU, message us - we can share the process for joining Cohort23. Sign up for the Vocal Process newsletter https://vocalprocess.co.uk/news-and-media/freebies/ Get the One Minute Voice Warmup app here, it's got a 4.9star rating Appstore https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/one-minute-voice-warmup/id1212802251 Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.speechtools.warmu