Our June 9th meeting was tons of fun and included teamwork, important topics and bathroom humour! Our chairman for the night, Baccus, chose the theme, “The Team Makes You Stronger”, so we opened with each of us discussing this idea…
How Much Risk should I Take?
Our April 28th meeting was small but powerful, and lots of fun. The theme for the night was “How much risk should I take?”, so we opened with each of us discussing the this question for 45 seconds. Some of…
Discovery
The theme for our April 14th meeting was “Discovery”. We opened the meeting with a warm-up, where each member spoke for 45 seconds on the topic of “discovery”. As usual, I discovered that our members approach the same topic in…
How does the wet weather change our routine?
Off the back of the 100+ year floods in March, our club members opened the meeting with a 45-second warm-up answering, “How does the wet weather change our routine?” Therese chaired the meeting – acting as chairperson for the first…
Grab Bag Table Topics
We laughed more than usual at our latest St Kieran’s Manly Vale Toastmasters meeting when our own Felipe pulled out a grab bag for Table Topics. We each blindly chose an item from the grab bag and then tried to…
“What’s on the Telly, Mate?”
The inspiration for this fun theme was from our chairperson, Ilona, who is originally from Russia. Ilona revealed shared that when she moved to Australia, she used the telly to help practice her English and accent. So, for our warm-up,…
Breaking the Ice x 2
We were thrilled to have two ice breaker speeches on October 14th from new members, Chris and Sylvia. An ice breaker is the first speech that a new member gives, when the speaker introduced herself or himself to the rest…
Nobody Asked Me, But…
We had a lively meeting on Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at St Kieran’s Manly Vale. Everyone was excited to be able to meet in person again. We welcomed three guests on the night – Therese, Erika and Louise. I was…
Pivot to Persevere – Toastmasters Manly Vale
The theme for our July 22, 2020 St Kieran’s Manly Vale Toastmasters meeting was “pivot”. Our chairperson chose this theme because we’ve all had to pivot our ways of life in the last few months thanks to COVID-19. We started…
Our First In-Person Meeting in 4 Months!
We had an excited group of Toastmasters at St Kieran’s Manly Vale on July 8th when we held our first in-person meeting in four months! The membership had voted to alternate having in-person and Zoom meetings. We had 14 members…