Creativity – November 16, 2017 Meeting Recap

Toastmaster Maria led a meeting filled with creativity!  She encouraged us to take action, whenever we feel ‘stuck’.  Developing a skill or achieving any goal is not a linear process.  For example, the best way to cure a writer’s block is just to write.  Eventually, your ideas will transform into a great work.

We then heard from James, who gave a persuasive speech on the habit loop.  He simplified the habit process in 3 parts: cue, routine and rewards.   Once you understand the process, you can develop or break any habit!

Our debate chair, Wes held another entertaining episode of debates. And of course, we ended the meeting with a tabletopic session, which was held by James.  This time, we had a three way tie!

Congrats Bob, Jill and our guest Jueun!

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Emulate – November 9, 2016’s Meeting Recap

This meeting, we had two special guests from Keynote Speakers Advanced Toastmasters club: 1) Maria Racelis, president of Keynote Speakers and founder of Share, Love and Celebrate Speakers Series and 2) Ron Tsang, a communication expert and author of ‘from presentations to standing ovation’.

The meeting opened with our induction of two members: Bina and Jose, which we all happily voted in.  Welcome Bina and Jose!

Our toastmasters James reminded us that we all can succeed in anything through the process of emulation.  Model the good habits of successful people and we too can succeed!

We were privileged to hear Ron’s workshop on ‘how to connect with any audience’. His workshop deserved our standing ovation as we gained access to valuable insights on becoming powerful speakers.

Our meeting ended with an entertaining tabletopics session,  led by Bob. We heard several enlightened messages, but it was Wes’s message on his powerful pen that came up on top.  Congrats Wes!

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Next meeting, our newly inducted members, Bina and Jose will be breaking the ice with their first speech!

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You’re invited!! November 9, 2016’s meeting:

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Meeting Nov 2 2016

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.

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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!

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Our Toastmasters Friends On the Other Side of the Globe

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:

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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

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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

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