Club Humour Contest – 28 July 2011
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Please diarize the next Peninsula Toastmasters meeting – the Peninsula Toastmasters Club Humour Competition!
It will be held on Thursday, 28 July 2011 at the German Club (previously called Tafelberg Tavern), Roodehek Terrace, Gardens from 5:30 pm until 7:45 pm. The cost of the meeting is R50, including light snacks after the meeting. Map and directions are on the website.
*** This is not a regular club meeting, but rather a Humour Contest. Members, it is a great way to
achieve goals and improve your speaking skills.
Dr Petro Janse van Vuuren will join us as a guest speaker. She will be speaking on the topic “Grow your Voice to Speak with Confidence”.
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GROW YOUR VOICE TO SPEAK WITH CONFIDENCE
Do you appear confident and competent as you speak?
Do you sound inviting and engaging?
Does your audience experience that you care both about your message and about them?
There are only two things that can interfere with your ability to answer yes to all three these questions: tension in your body and fear in your heart. When your body knows what to do, it can help you control your feelings and focus your mind.
As with training for a marathon, your body needs to unlearn bad habits and relearn new ones so that speaking invitingly and confidently becomes automatic.
Petro will share with you three basic principles for using your voice to invite rather than invade or worse, just fade:
· a good posture that helps you relax and communicate confidence
· using your breath to control your voice and your nerves
· producing a rich warm voice that invites attention and instils trust
Petro Janse van Vuuren (PhD) has been training and coaching voice work for the last 18 years, both as a trainer of actors and presentation-skills teacher. She honed her skills first as school drama teacher and then as actor and director at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Guests are very welcome to join us for some informative and uproarious Toastmasters fun! Email Club Vice President, Public Relations – Kirsten Pearson to rsvp. kirsten@lightyard.net