**Abstract**

Oratory is the art of speaking eloquently, it is the art of communicating persuasively, and being able to generate influence over an individual or a group, with a series of common specific characteristics. It emerged in classical times and is considered a prose literary genre. Preparing a speech is an intensive learning pedagogical process. A great opportunity that allows us to order with a challenge, and systematizes our ideas with concentration, express them from our presence, which invites us to document ourselves and makes us protagonists. The speaker's walk is a very little-known memorization technique, and with enormous efficiency in the public speaking environment; also called the palace of memories or "loci" method, which in Latin means "places" or "locations." Our publication aims to carry out an innovative and in-depth methodological and pedagogical review of the orator's walk technique. A new version of 2.0 allows a much deeper and more efficient application. Which aims to display infinite and imaginative, pedagogical scenarios of concentration and memory for the speaker, incorporating novel experiential applications in persuasive environments of live communication.

**Keywords:** live communication, concentration, efficient conscious, speaker walk, mental, mindfulness

## **1. Introduction**

For the optimal definition of the focus of our research, we temporarily centralize the quantitative and thematic coordinates between the years 85 and 86 BC. C. in which an adaptation of the pragmatic Greek teachings on rhetoric was published in the city of Rome. This field was organized into a set of guidelines for the practice of oral discourse for persuasive purposes. An investigation that tried to delve into the essence of the keys to verbal communication with full seduction and connection with the receiver. Scholars identify the development of a rhetorical consciousness in ancient Greece that reached capital importance in all social spheres, and which led to Hellenic oratory as a practice of good speech and good citizenship. It consists of

persuasive deconstruction from the composition of the speech to the brilliant staging. This approach later it spread to the western world [1].

The technique of the orator's walk, the palace of memories, or the method of "loci" which in latín means "places" or "locations", has its main origins in the fifth century BC, when the lyrical poet, Simonides de Ceos, was invited to a banquet in Tesalia (Greece) to recite some poems [1]. The narrative climax of the experience It happened when, during the celebration, they called him to go in the direction of the door of the temple, in order to receive a nominative message. At that moment, a transpersonal event takes place that is embodied as the inspiring backbone of the awakening of the orator's walk technique. While the poet Simónides attends diligently, and expectantly, to the exit of the enclosure, the unfortunate collapse of the ceiling of the dining room of the palace takes place.

This earthly annihilation ends up causing the death of all diners and guests, without having any choice of life, or possibility, of being able to recognize the identity of the corpses after the accident. Simonides found that he was able to remember, and locate, in his mind, very easily, where each of the guests was inside him, allowing the bodies to be identified with virtually no cognitive effort. The exact location of each meal before the accident had been established, and anchored, in a natural and spatial way, in the memory of Simónides de Ceos. With hardly any written records of the methodology, reviews appear in the anonymous Greek book La Rhetorica and Herrenium, specifically in book III, Section VI on memory [1] and in the work De Oratore written by Ciceron [1]. Also, many series and movies mention is made of it as in The Mentalist and The Silence of the Lambs, among others [1].

The speaker's walk method, "loci" or memory palace is conceived and designed to creatively stimulate human spatial memory. Creating an evocative journey made-up of infinite supra places, in a familiar and recognized environment, such as the home, or a well-known place with well-defined rooms, corners, rooms, chambers, ambiences, anterooms, halls, or rooms.

The primary objective of applying the technique is to stimulate our creative memory through the original creation of a spatial narrative. It is an exercise in memorizing each site of the mental palace through suggestive images, mirrors, surreal, funny, crazy, strange, ingenious, or even lurid. The use of creativity in construction is absolutely vital so that later they can be vividly remembered, and especially so that memory acquires an active but relaxed role [2]. When memory is transformed into compositional creativity, and the receiver appropriates each production, creativity appears, and memory takes on a much more active nature. Passive and demanding memory is disguised as creative and active attention. The rooms are imaginatively designed with a wide variety of well-known, evocative, and easy-to-see references, in such a way that the larger it is, and the more elements and accessories it incorporates, the more information can be accumulated in the memory palace.

Both to memorize and to remember, the method requires making an imaginary "journey" through a mental walk through the familiar place, always on the same route and direction, with the aim of passing and entering the multiple rooms and rooms to extract mentally stored information. A resource-based on the synchronization of data with known reference points, which uses the brain regions related to spatial memory to visualize, associate, and remember. If the technique is followed to the letter, a large amount of information can be remembered by mentally walking through the palace and collecting the objects to which the information has been assigned [2].

The fundamental objective of our research, called the speaker's walk 2.0, is a novel, and innovative, review of this persuasive public speaking methodology.

*Efficient Conscious Speaking - Live Communication Pedagogical Technique… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.101093*

It consists of the creation of an original and experimental version, methodologically evolved, of the classic orator's walk. The transgressive core of this revolutionary methodology consists in the use of our own body as spatial support for the application of the "loci" method. The fundamental purpose is the use of our own body, with its infinite dependencies, as a canvas and cardinal narrative support for the creation of our technique of the speaker's walk 2.0.
