Climber Mental: The Key to Becoming an Inspirational Muslim Preacher
Becoming an inspiring speaker or preacher must start from changing habits. If you still have the habit of “followers,” it is undoubtedly difficult to become a reliable speaker. People with habits and mental “followers” tend to like lying down, lazy, unproductive. Meanwhile, people with a “viewer” mentality are always curious, don’t make changes, and follow the environment but don’t know what they want.
“Reliable speakers must start to build mental “climbers.” Mental climbers usually have strong discipline, adaptation, and optimism,” said Risma Kusumanendra, one of the speakers on Friday (11/6/2021) in the oral Da’wah training “Inspiring Public Speaker.” The training raised the theme of realizing enthusiastic preachers, interesting, fun, and inspiring communication.
Risma quotes Professor Carol Dweck in The New Psychology of Success, and there are two mindsets of a successful person. The first is the “fixed” mindset. This mindset assumes no opportunity at all to learn and grow. Everything remains. In comparison, the second mindset is a growth mindset which is a fixed mindset. This mindset assumes that everything can develop over time, and everything can be learned.
For Risma, three soft skills are needed to be a preacher: “Integrity, namely honesty, morals, personal values. The second is communication skills such as speaking, writing, presenting, and listening. Then the third is having good manners and ethics.”
This training is oral da’wah training for educators in the UII FPSB environment. Apart from Risma, other presenters who inspired were Kiki F. Wijaya, a motivator and soft skill trainer. Kiki discusses techniques for managing persuasion, overcoming stage fright, and the characters of inspirational preachers.
from left to right: Farhan Dean’s student staff, Parjono Security guard, Risma CRISTAL, Zarkoni, Widodo HP, Edi Sutapa, Aris Budiono (Chairman of the Organizing Committee). 5 best practices for FPSB UII 2021 oral da’wah training
On this occasion, the training does not only revolve around the theory. There is also a direct practice of creating da’wah content. Each participant practiced preaching. Including practice in front of the camera so that participants are invited to be creative in packaging da’wah.
At the end of the training, the committee and presenters selected five participants considered strong characters and seeds of preachers. In turn, these five participants will have their videos taken as propaganda video content.
The five selected participants were Farhan from the FPSB dean of student affairs, Parjono from the Security Unit Division, Zarkoni from the Communications Department, Widodo HP from the Faculty Staff, Edi Sutapa from the faculty staff. These are the five best practices for the 2021 FPSB UII oral da’wah training who will have the opportunity to create digital da’wah content.
Photo: Widodo HP
