The big un-wrap
That’s it. That’s a wrap for 2013. Tonight was the end of year round-up – a chance to have a bit of fun with our wider Toastmaster friends and family.
Recaps
Summer, Leadership and tea-towel undies
And just like that it was December. The home-straight for the year. But tonight’s meeting couldn’t be further from a wind-down, with two incredible prepared speeches, a manic table topics session and who could forget Inka’s incredible caramel slice! With Chrissy in the Toastmaster driving seat we started off in warm-Chrissy-style, on time, to what
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Work-shopping
An evening of tips, tricks and traps – tonight’s workshop evening had something for everyone. Running two concurrent tracks, we went from session to session, learning, discussing and taking notes along the way. Dave Y ran a practical mind-mapping session, showing by live example a neat way to plan and map out a full speech
Parihaka & The Nod
From the powerful to the light-hearted, tonight’s session was engaging, fun & educational. Toastmaster Dave Brierly had punctuality in mind from the outset and with a concise introduction we were straight into Dave Young’s Bard, an account of one woman’s incredible experience and growth through Toastmasters. Tim started his new book tonight, speaking from The
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Engineering, new leaves & a ginger cat called chocky
The agenda was action-packed with three speeches, a 20 minute supper and a presentation to boot – and it was well worth every minute. For those who haven’t heard, Dave Young took out the Toastmasters New Zealand Humorous Speech contest in the weekend. Our Dave is the New Zealand Champion! More details are on our
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