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To our new members: Welcome to Canning Vale Toastmasters and congratulations on

taking that first step in your Toastmasters journey. Every

member is willing to help you at any time and we will all support

you with your progress towards your goals.

To make the most of your membership, be sure to read page 2

in your Competent Communicator Manual, especially A

Toastmasters Promise. We all look forward to watching you

become the speaker and leader you want to be.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Our 400th Meeting!

Meet your 2016-17 Club Officers

My Year as President— A Message from our Immediate Past President

MEET OUR NEW MEMBERS

Andre Figueiredo Peter Darangwa Kym Strachan

Frank Crisafio Peter Jordan

(Re-joined July 2016)

Our 400th Meeting!

CANNING VALE TOASTMASTERS CLUB

NEWSLETTER June / July 2016

Canning Vale Toastmasters

@CVTMPerth

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We meet every Tuesday @ 6.30pm

Canning Vale College Library

Dumbarton Road

Phone: 0417 915 464

Email: [email protected]


Celebrating our 400th Meeting!

Did you miss our

400th meeting?

View highlights of

our club’s milestone

event over the

following pages!

On Tuesday, 28 June 2016, Canning Vale Toastmasters Club

celebrated its 400th meeting anniversary!

Based around a “Ruby Red” theme which signifies health, wealth

and wisdom, the evening’s agenda included entertaining

speeches from current members, a delicious supper and

refreshments, and special appearances from past members of

the club.

Ronnie opening the meeting

with us shaking our hands

like we just don’t care

Seasoned Toastmaster Andre S

making his grand entrance to the

sounds of “Staying Alive”

Robyn leading an extended Table

Topics session in front of a

massive 57 member audience.

Questions from the night centred

around our “Ruby Red” and

“400th” anniversary theme!

New member

Andre F

giving his first

inspiration.

Peter’s Tonic

encouraged

everyone to

“give it their all!”

at Toastmasters.


Celebrating our 400th Meeting!

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FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE!

@CANNING VALE TOASTMASTERS

Jenny delivering her

CC10 speech “One Step”,

telling us about her climb

up and down Mt Kinabalu

in Malaysia, one step at a

time.

Michelle recounting the

special moment with

her son, the night

before his wedding with

her CC4 speech, “The

Bark”.

Vanessa enthralling us from

head to toe with an advanced

speech from the Entertaining

Speech manual.

In her speech, “Build Your

Communities”, she advised

us on how Toastmasters has

equipped her with skills to win

over her local neighbourhood

grump, Mrs Green.

“If You Build It” - Mark tells the story

of the birth of CVTM and its many

achievements over the last 400

meetings.

Once a Toastmaster, always a Toastmaster —

members past, present, new, experienced and guests

all mingling under the one roof.

Thank you to everyone for making the evening such an

amazing night—CVTM would not have achieved all its

successes without each and every one of you!


Roll of Honour

Toastmaster of the Year— Robyn Richards

Congratulations to Robyn on being Toastmaster of the Year for 2015/16!

Robyn has been an integral part of CVTM since it’s charter in 2008, and continually goes

above and beyond to ensure our club maintains it’s high standards and is promoted outside of

our local Canning Vale community.

In addition to personally achieving her ALB during 2015/16, Robyn was VPPR and won the

PPP cup for CVTM at the recent D17 convention. Robyn is the eighth recipient of the TOTY

award and was voted by fellow club members as the most deserving recipient of this award.

AWARD ACHIEVED BY

Competent Communicator (CC) Elena Lindgren

Competent Communicator (CC) Jenny de Wind

Other Member Achievements:


Meeting 401

Tonight became an evening of

“firsts” as our new SAA, Michelle

Duncan opened Meeting 401

before Esthel led the remainder of

the night as first time Toastmaster.

New member Peter gave his first

inspiration around the

psychological and physical effects

of accepting defeat, while Amie

introduced a “continuing story”

concept to Table Topics which

allowed various members to

recount their own version of

events as they waited to board the

QEII in Fremantle.

Michelle returned with an

emotional Tonic encouraging us to

celebrate our lasts as much as our

firsts by intentionally closing

doors, while Paul described the

pros and cons of WA separating

from the rest of Australia for his

CC2 speech. Karen encouraged us

to become local activists by

contacting our local MPs to

change legislation around fine

repayment for those in financial

strife.

Outgoing Area Director for S31,

Andre Sequiera, gave his High

Performance Leadership speech

“Every end is a new beginning”

and shared with us his highlights

and learnings of organising and

implementing an Area S31 event.

Nafisa helped us to round off the

night with Highlights and Phrases,

while new member Andre

completed his first timing report.

The night ended with the induction

of our new club officers,

announcement of awards for the

club visitation competition, and a

club celebration of Mark’s birthday

with cake and frivolity!

Happy Birthday

Mark! Winners from Canning Vale for

the club visitation competition

Dennis revelling in power as

Club President for 2016/17


Meeting 402

Karen was a first time Toastmaster

and kept us on schedule all night!

During his Inspiration, Nim

reminded us to control our habits

and make the most of our day

because “time waits for nobody”.

Next, Hadi led us through a mixed

Table Topics round which revealed

that: Colin would give Donald

Trump a one-way ticket to another

planet, guest Duncan enjoys

watching the Olympics, Akash has

mixed opinions about soccer

greats Messi and Ronaldo due to

their behaviour during matches,

Emmet’s dream holiday

destination is Africa, and Mark had

a teenage crush on the ABBA

girls!

Kym had a profound realisation to

just be herself during her Tonic.

Then Andre F made a strong

impression with his Icebreaker

speech, revealing how he started

out as an arrogant kid with a

passion for basketball and Michael

Jordan, how he studied geology

but is colour blind so switched to

business management, and is now

driven to building his confidence

by becoming a Toastmaster.

Returning member Peter Jordan

gave a CC3 speech, “Second

Chances” and told us the gripping

consequences of a drinking and

speeding incident which almost

tragically ended his daughter and

her boyfriend’s life.

Nafisa prepared our bodies for

summer with handy nutrition and

lifestyle tips, while Noor shared

three major moments in his life

where he ignored his “monkey

brain” and followed his heart

instead.


Meet our Club Officers for 2016-17

Welcome to our club officers for 2016/17! (From L-R) Robyn Richards, Eloyise Braskic, Christina Ng, Dennis Foo,

Jenny de Wind, Elena Lindgren, Michelle Duncan.

Michele Naidu,

as Area Director

for S31 (taking

over from Andre

Sequiera

PLUS! Introducing...

Ronnie Giandzi,

as Canning Vale’s

Club Mentor

Coordinator!

Club President — Dennis Foo Secretary — Robyn Richards

VP Education — Eloyise Braskic Treasurer — Elena Lindgren

VP Membership — Jenny de Wind VP Public Relations — Christina Ng


Meeting 403

Hadi was Toastmaster for the night

and led the meeting with great

enthusiasm. New member Kym

gave an Inspiration on how to

make goal setting an enjoyable

experience, while Paul led us

through Table Topics with a mix

of questions.

We learned Dennis wastes most of

his money on online purchases,

Eloyise often gives up on winning

arguments which involve the

Dockers, Mark is an expert at

assembling flat pack furniture,

Peter J keeps tantrums to himself,

Robyn’s favourite pastime as a kid

was burying toy cars in the dirt for

fun, and Frank loves TV shows

about computers.

For his Inspiration, Peter D relayed

the cultural learnings he enjoyed

throughout his move from

Zimbabwe to Perth. It included his

50/50 approach to using “Yes” and

“Yep” during job interviews, how

he’d spend $10,000 on a can of

soft drink, enjoying family life in

Australia with his wife and son,

and not forgetting his father’s

wishes for him years ago.

Nim gave us tips on how to calm

ourselves down when preparing to

speak in public with his speech,

“Mindfulness in Public Speaking”.

Theuns told us about the time he

siphoned fuel from a ute and

ended up receiving 16 lashes as a

consequence.

Fiona gave an advanced speech

from the Communicating on Video

Manual on Pokemon Go, informing

us that people play the game on

average for 43 minutes per day.

Andre reminded us of Highlights

and Phrases from the night, while

Ash delivered the timing report.


Meeting 404

Nim led tonight’s meeting with the

theme, “All About Toastmasters”

before Frank’s Inspiration about a

charity ride he is doing for skin

cancer WA.

Esthel took Table Topics to a new

level of spontaneity by bringing

in unfamiliar flags of the world.

John has the flag of an exciting

country where you had to be on

edge. It ended up being the flag

of Benin. Ronnie had a flag with

running feet on it so she thought

it would be from Africa where they

run and love together. The flag

was actually from the Isle of Man.

Sheldon guessed he had the flag

of a dragon nation somewhere in

Asia and was pretty close as it was

actually the flag of Bhutan!

Vanessa thought her flag was from

Ireland where the four points of the

clover were four pints you had to

consume. The flag was from

Lombardi in Italy.

Colin announced that he was

pregnant during his Tonic.

Hadi spoke about “The Charity

Conundrum” during his CC3

speech, and gave advice on

whether you should or

shouldn’t donate to certain

charities.

Raj told a story about his

cousin Deran who has autism and

how his family learnt to live with

him. It has taught him patience,

tolerance and kindness.

Members then enjoyed a special

presentation by Roger MacDonald,

the District 17 Winner of the

International Speech final, who

gave his speech at our club before

heading over to Washington DC in

America.


Tip of the Month

Classic Storytelling Techniques for

Engaging Presentations Part 5

Continuing on from the last 4 months, here is the next technique to

help engage your audience.

Technique 5. In medias res

In medias res storytelling is when you begin your narrative

in the heat of the action, before starting over at the

beginning to explain how you got there.

By dropping your audience right into the most exciting part

of your story they’ll be gripped from the beginning and will

stay engaged to find out what happens.

But be careful – you don’t want to give away too much of the action straight away. Try hinting

at something bizarre or unexpected – something that needs more explanation. Give your

audience just enough information to keep them hooked, as you go back and set the scene of

your story. This only works for shorter presentations though – if you string it out too long your

audience will get frustrated and lose interest. Good for:

Grabbing attention from the start

Keep an audience craving resolution

Focusing attention on a pivotal moment in your story See also: An overview of in medias res storytelling at story-papers.com

Zak Ebrahim begins his talk with the revelation that his father helped plan the 1993 World

Trade Centre bombing. His audience is gripped from the beginning, as he begins to recount the

events of his childhood and the path he took after his father’s conviction.

Here’s a link to that speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyR-K2CZIHQ http://www.sparkol.com/engage/8-classic-storytelling-techniques-for-engaging-presentations/

http://www.story-papers.com/in-medias-res/


A word from outgoing CVTM President, Vanessa Chang

I have always managed to avoid the task and commitment of being on any

committee and when I was approached to be President - I freaked out! There was

no way I could do what the likes of Mike Palmer and Robyn Richards did so well at

the end of each meeting. I also had no idea how to chair a committee meeting so I

initially declined the position. However a very simple sentence had been uttered

and it had stayed with me over the course of the year.

Mark Richards had said “I think you could do this”.

Words really do have power and if someone thought I could be President of Canning Vale Toastmasters,

maybe I could?

A year made a big difference and with more confidence in my abilities I put my hand up for the role of

President at Canning Vale Toastmasters.

My first time closing the meeting was a nerve wracking experience

and I forgot lots of announcement items (however the club still

remains wonderful and vibrant – despite my oversights). The role

did however, get easier as the year progressed and by the end of

my term I was comfortable closing each meeting. I did not realise

how much I enjoyed this role until our new President Dennis Foo

took to the stage to close his first meeting. I recognised the nerves

associated with doing something new for the first time and have

seen over the course of a just a few weeks our new President settle

in and find his own comfort zone.

Being on the committee was not as difficult as I thought it would be and I had no

reason to be concerned. I was surrounded by the most amazing crew of people

who mentored me along the way. If anyone approaches you or if your think you

would like the experience of being on a committee – say YES because I think any

one of our amazing members could do this!

-Vanessa Canning Vale Toastmasters

@CVTMPerth

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My Year As President



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