Mical Asefaw Poetics

Power & Purpose

I help you own your story and connect authentically by guiding you to craft your voice through original spoken word and creative expression so you can express your truth, build meaningful connections, and step confidently into your power.

I work with artists, creators, and individuals ready to embrace their authentic voice and develop practical public speaking skills to confidently share their message in professional and personal settings. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Work With Mical To:

  • Develop powerful public speaking skills tailored to your unique voice

 

  • Receive personalized guidance that empowers you to step confidently into your power

 

  • Connect deeply with your audience through original spoken word and creative expression

 

  • Build meaningful relationships that support your personal and professional growth

 

 

Public Speaking & Spoken Word with Mical Asefaw

4 weeks to becoming a more powerful you with 1-to-1 coaching

Power & Purpose 
  Package
4 Weekly 1-to-1 Sessions
$1,200

 

Week 1: The Foundation  

We’ll work together to name the impact you want to have, name what you came to master and capture where your voice stands today so you can see exactly how far you’ve come by session four

 

Week 2: Craft the Material

We’ll work together to discover where your over-performing and underemphasizing your message and edit for your natural voice, tone, and your unique pattern of speech, so it sounds like your authentic voice by session four

 

Week 3: Pressence & Power

We’ll work on body language, eye contact, how to incorporate hand gestures, and development a unique centering ritual that grounds you and prepares you to command a room

 

Week 4: Power & Purpose

Deliver your completed piece with confidence, receive your progress reel, plus the full four session recordings

 

Your progress reel and full four session recordings arrive within three days of our final session.

 

 

ABOUT MICAL

Mical Asefaw is an Eritrean-American poet, activist, and blogger. She was born in Khartoum, Sudan in a refugee camp and came to the U.S. as an infant refugee. She grew up in San Francisco’s Harlem of the West in the African American and Eritrean communities. Mical draws on her history to create spoken word pieces that inspire others to think critically about race, gender, and language and uses her words to break down barriers and uplift her peoples. 

Mical Asefaw attended Mills College and earned a BA in economics and an MBA. She has performed at Mills College The Center for Transformative Action, the Village Project’s Kwanza at SF City Hall, MoAD’s Community Voices Series, Black Freighter Press’ “The Docks” series with Tongo Eisen-Martin, Berkeley Arts Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and SF Juneteenth Festival.

Client Testimonials

Tongo Eisen-Martin

Poet Laureate, San Francisco

“Mical Asefaw has a once-in-a-generation presence. Hers is a poetry of the most special fire; the cosmos come down.”

Adrien Williams

Villiage Project Founder

“An exceptional poet! Impressive … perspective and support of community. More Micals are needed to make this world a better place!” 

 

Carrie Maultsby

Mills College Director of Center for Transformative Action

“A phenomenal poet, artist, speaker, human … eloquently blended the realities of our current systems with hope and optimism. A true professional who values relationships and the quality of her work.” 

Nia McAlister

Museum of African Diaspora (MoAD)

“Mical Asefaw is a poet with unmatched energy, creativity, and care. She crafts words that hold her people and her community close, all while inspiring us all to dream of freer futures. She is a joy to work with.”

Qualifications

Mical Asefaw has performed at the following:

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Village Project

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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