Kirsten Pearson
Club Humour Contest – 28 July 2011
Bwahahahahaha!! LOL!! ROTFL!!
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
Peninsula’s new committee
A welcome to the new club committee for Peninsula Toastmasters. The entire committee is now:
• President: Thomas Bowman
• Immediate Past President: Craig Strachan
• VP Education: Kirsten Pearson
• VP Membership: Diana Kraak
• VP Public Relations: Kirsten Pearson
• Secretary: Diana Kraak
• Treasurer: Sandra Arendse
• Sgt at Arms: Kirsté Kriel
June Meeting – a touch of magic!
The next Peninsula meeting will be held on Thursday, 30 June 2011 at the German Club (previously called Tafelberg Tavern), Roodehek Terrace, Gardens from 5:30 pm until 7:45 pm.
The meeting theme is “A Touch of Magic!” Come along and see what we’ve got up our sleeves!
The cost of the meeting is R50, including light snacks after the meeting; a map and directions are here: http://www.peninsulatoastmasters.info/directions/ Guests are welcome!
Peninsula rocks!!
Peninsula Toastmasters VP PR, Kirsten Pearson received the Club PR effort award for District 74 (Southern Africa). Congratulations Kirsten!
Next Peninsula Toastmasters Meeting
The next Peninsula meeting will be held on Thursday, 05 May 2011 at the German Club (previously called Tafelberg Tavern), Roodehek Terrace, Gardens from 5:30 pm until 7:45 pm. (This replaces the April meeting, which would have fallen during the time when most people will be taking a holiday.) The cost of the meeting is R50, including light snacks after the meeting; a map and directions are here: http://www.peninsulatoastmasters.info/directions/ Guests are welcome!
March 2011 Meeting
Please join us for the Peninsula Toastmasters March meeting.
The meeting will be held on Thursday, 31 March 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.
Next Meeting this coming Thursday – 30th September
Looking forward to seeing you there…