Liberty Village Toastmasters Toronto

Good evening everyone,

Just a fun recap of last weeks meeting for anyone who missed out.

Bob, our Toastmaster of the evening started us off right, with a rousing speech on taking big tasks on, one step at a time.

We then had a double Louise kind of night, where Louise G spoke to us about coming from a privileged life and school in Taiwan, and experiencing and overcoming extreme difficulty  and culture shock when immigrating to Canada. Louise was amazing and caused more than a few tears in the room. Great speech Louise! 

Next, Louise Bark informed us about TTC safety, specifying on wheelchairs and strollers,  and how it affects us all. This was a great second crack at her speech, working on perfection already. Thanks Louise B!

Lastly, but not least, Jill took us on a journey about boundaries. She told us a story about learning how to say NO! and standing up for ourselves. Well done Jill.

Olga led her first Table Topics session, and it was full of thrills and chills and fantastic questions. Great job Olga! And congrats to our winner of the night, Cara! 

See you Wednesday!

Toastmasters has gone a long way since its first establishment in 1924. It now has more than 154,000 clubs around the world with over 332,000 members!

Here are some of our fellow toastmasters from the other side of the globe:

We had the privilege to meet Venkat Vempati (fourth from the left) who visited our club from Dubai recently on Oct 5, 2016.

Vietnam’s International Toastmasters Conference October 2016

Jay, one of our dedicated toastmasters, took these pictures while participating at Vietnam’s first International Toastmasters conference this year. Contestants and officials came from Canada and different parts of South Asia (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines).

For more information on Toastmasters’ history, visit: https://www.toastmasters.org/About/History/Timeline

First time Toastmaster Dave taught us to how to use visualization, a technique he learned from his Dale Carnegie’s class, to flourish our conversations.  Now we will be able to connect with anyone!

We had 2 speakers and 3 sets of debates.
Speaker Louise Bark addressed the safety issue of wheelchairs on public transit. She gave effective ideas on how the city can improve and implement, which we should advocate as it affects us one way or another (e.g. strollers).
Speaker John Kjarsgaard  told us how light came to our world. All thanks to that raven!

Our debates were centered on things we cannot live without: social media, money and detention. Be was voted as best debater for her case against detention.

Next week, we’ll have 3 speakers (Louise Guo, Jill and Maria) with Bob as our toastmaster!

Mireille with Ron Tsang, author of ‘from presentations to standing ovation.’  Mark your calendar! He will be speaking at our club on November 9, 2016.

James with Robert Craig, author of ‘The Light Bulb Strategy.’

Be with Charmaine Bryan, author of ‘Stop Buying Clothes You Don’t Wear.’

Louise with Maria, organizer of SLC Speakers Series event.

Last night’s meeting was better than watching the Jays lose.

Our Toastmaster Be gave us a speech about something great…not worrying so much! Be gave a compelling argument as to why we should all not worry so much, because only 8% of any of our worries ever come true, and they are usually the kind we can manage.

We had an ice breaker speech tonight by new member Lydia. She shared with us her secret of being both a procrastinator and being spontaneous. She demonstrated lots of strong speaking skills she already has. Great first speech Lydia!

Next we had Bob give us an advanced speech about a quick reference to speaking better french with the ‘four luck’ rule.

And with a really fun table topics session where every single person participated, the winner was declared by majority victory to Mark.

With such a fun evening, why would you ever not want to be here!
See you next week!