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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:

President’s Message

Roll of Honour

Entering a Speech Contest

Tip of the Month

Events & Reminders

MEET OUR NEW MEMBERS

Fred Ravandi Massy Vahedzadeh

Kishor Adhikari

REMINDER: Upcoming

Contests at CVTM

CANNING VALE TOASTMASTERS CLUB

NEWSLETTER August 2016

We meet every Tuesday @ 6.30pm

Canning Vale College Library

Dumbarton Road

Phone: 0417 915 464

Email: [email protected]

Canning Vale Toastmasters

@CVTMPerth

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CVTM President’s Message

Hi everyone,

It is an honour to be the incoming president for

Canning Vale during 2016/2017.

I have been a member at Canning Vale for three

years now and it feels great to give back to the club.

Canning Vale Toastmasters has helped me a lot with

my confidence in speaking in front of people but

most of all it has been a fun way to spend Tuesday

nights.

We are lucky enough to have great energy at Canning Vale with people from all different walks

of life, friendly attitudes and fascinating stories to tell. I would like to say thank you to all our

members for making Canning Vale one of the top clubs in our District.

We have great formal and informal mentoring going on at toastmasters so all our members can

reach their potential. At the moment our committee is working on the up coming speech

contests, but also hopefully some social events in the future.

-Dennis Foo


Roll of Honour

AWARD ACHIEVED BY

Leadership Excellence Award (HPL) (LDREX) Andre Sequeira

Advanced Leadership Bronze (ALB) Robyn Richards

Advanced Communicator Bronze (ACB) Vanessa Chang

Competent Communicator (CC) - his 10th! Mark Richards

Competent Leader (CL) Phyll Lightbody


Let’s Shed Some Intense Light on Toastmasters Contests

Canning Vale Club Contests

CVTM will be holding our club contests in September.

We will be hosting a Table Topics and Humorous Contest on the

20th and 27th of September respectively.

If you’d like to compete, please contact our VPE, Eloyise Braskic and she’ll put you down on

the agenda! Email [email protected] or call 0400 214 586.

Interested in entering a Toastmaster Contest but not sure what’s involved?

Get to know the ins and outs of contests with the brief backgrounder below.

WA Toastmasters runs four different speech competitions each year:

International Speech Contest

Humorous Speech Contest

Evaluation Contest

Table Topics (Impromptu Speaking)

There are preliminary contests at three different levels:

Club (usually about 15-25 members), winner goes through to the Area Final (CVTM is in Area31).

Area (4-6 Clubs), winner goes through to the Division Final (we are part of Southern Division).

Division (4-5 Areas), first and second placegetters go through to compete at the District Convention.

The International winner goes on to compete at the semi-final against 9 -10 other Districts.

There are nine semi-finals among all Toastmasters International Regions (there are 14 regions in total) with ONE speaker going forward from each final.

At last, there is the International Final where the winner is the year’s World Champion of Public Speaking!

For more information, visit the District 17 website Toastmasters Contests page here: http://toastmastersd17.org/resources/club-officers/contests/

Australia, New

Zealand and

Papua New

Guinea are

REGION 12


Meeting 405

Santosh performed

outstandingly as first-time

Toastmaster, while Eloyise

encouraged us to “Take time to

stay sharp” for tonight’s

Inspiration.

Farah delivered a hilarious Tonic

around why all fairies are

female, while our Table Topics

master, Andre F, followed an

Olympics theme.

Peter J highlighted the

importance of body language

and movement on stage during

his speech, I Like to Move It,

Move It.

Colin transported all members

to a deserted island in his

speech, Matters of Protocol and

decided which members would

go on misadventures, get eaten

first, and survive the longest

when food became scarce.

Rena asked “What Makes You

Happy?” during her CC9

speech, and persuaded us to

Find Happiness in the Ordinary.

Enjoying a family dinner through

Skype, receiving an email from

loved ones, and watching the

sunset were a few of Rena’s

favourite ‘ordinary’ moments

which brought her joy.

Peter tested everyone’s listening

skills with Highlights & Phrases.

Meeting 405 ended with awards

being given to Vanessa (ACB),

Mark (CC) and Phyll (CL) on

their individual Toastmasters

accomplishments.

Congratulations to all three!


Meeting 406

Members were treated to a full

agenda of personal reflections

during tonight's meeting.

Santosh spoke retrospectively

about Lessons in Failure for his

CC2 speech, and retold moments

in his life where he “sobered up”

about his obsession with climbing

the corporate ladder after

relationships with his

colleagues and family members

began to falter as a consequence.

New member Fred delivered his

Icebreaker speech, and told us

about the time he broke his hand at

a very young age yet still achieved

top marks in his math test. From

this experience, he continued to

study mathematics, settled on

electrical engineering as a career,

was able to travel the world

because of work, and found his

lovely wife Massy along the way.

Shree recited a poem by Dylan

Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into

That Good Night, which conveys

the struggles of a son, forced to

confront the terminal death of his

father. Following this, Shree

encouraged us to keep living each

day like it was our last , and to fight

against whatever life threw at us.

(You can read Thomas’ poem in full

on the following page.)

Finally Sheldon spoke about the

“What Ifs” in his life, relaying how

a potential job promotion at work

stirred him to take action and talk

to his boss about filling the role. A

fantastic, personal demonstration

of grabbing life’s opportunities

with both hands—good luck

Sheldon!

To round out the night, we heard

Highlights & Phrases from Colin.

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Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,


Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,


Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,


And you, my father, there on the sad height,

Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.



Do not go gentle into that good night

Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953

From The Poems of Dylan Thomas, published by New Directions. Copyright © 1952, 1953 Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1937, 1945, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1967 the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1938, 1939, 1943, 1946, 1971 New Directions Publishing Corp. For educational purposes only.


Meeting 407

Gareth exuded great confidence

while undertaking his role as

Toastmaster for the night. Rena

Inspired us to live in the moment .

Kym introduced us to Aristotle’s

Modes of Persuasion as she led

Table Topics for the night.

Members were asked to respond to

questions using either Ethos

(persuading with authority/

credibility), Pathos (appealing to

emotions), or Logos (using logic/

facts and figures). It was a great

challenge to all TT participants.

Frank described a Fight or Flight

experience for his Icebreaker

speech tonight - he was

confronted with an emergency

situation at work which left him

momentarily frozen at his desk!

Andre F educated us on “fixed”

versus “growth” personality types

during his CC2 speech Success

Over Failure and included personal

anecdotes about his achievements

in soccer and at Toastmasters

throughout his presentation.

Michelle told us about her

involvement with the Sycamore

Tree Project and how hardened

prisoners are often hiding

childhood scars and trauma

beneath their scary physical

exteriors.

Finally, for her advanced

Storytelling project, Eloyise left us

with an emotional lesson about

Integrity and Leadership. She

retold a tale about a Chinese

Emperor and his quest to find a

new leader by giving every child in

the country a seed to grow. The

story ended with a hefty moral that

as leaders, it is more important to

do the right thing than to always

be perfect at everything we do.


Meeting 408

Cycling enthusiast Frank survived

his 150km ride over the weekend

and kept everyone on time as

Toastmaster tonight while Jenny

gave an important reminder to

contact mentors for help before

pulling out of a speech or role!

Nafisa led a ‘secret envelope’

Table Topics round which was a

lot of fun. Guest Edwin spoke

about nail clippers, new member

Kishor informed us that Berocca

contains all the B group vitamins

which help us with memory, Massy

eagerly told us how Windex made

everything germ free, and Peter D

told us how coconut oil made his

rice smell and taste great.

Fred had us trapped inside

someone's heart for tonight’s

Tonic.

Kym’s Icebreaker revolved around

the Certainty vs Uncertainty in her

life at the moment. She is giving

up her secure job and trying out

commission work for a while.

Vanessa evaluated Kym’s speech

and couldn’t wait to see if Kym

would be dining on noodles or

caviar in the near future!

Peter J had everyone laughing

during his Who Am I Icebreaker

and revealed he was called “Little

Dick” as a kid.

Esthel taught us about play-based

learning and how to use it at home.

Dennis recounted how he survived

Mt Perisher on his snowboard, and

used his gluteus maximus in

various ways.

Karen gave Highlights & Phrases

and told us some “Bad Grandma”

tips.

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Tip of the Month

Classic Storytelling Techniques for Engaging

Presentations Part 6

Continuing on from previous months, here is the next technique to help engage your audience.

Technique 6. Converging Ideas Converging ideas is a speech structure that shows the

audience how different strands of thinking came

together to form one product or idea.

It can be used to show the birth of a movement. Or

explain how a single idea was the culmination of

several great minds working towards one goal.

Converging ideas is similar to the nested loops structure, but rather than framing one story with

complementary stories, it can show how several equally important stories came to a single strong

conclusion.

This technique could be used to tell the stories of some of the world’s greatest partnerships – for

example, web developers Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Larry and Sergey met at Stanford’s PhD program in 1995, but they didn’t like each other at first. They

both had great ideas, but found working together hard. Eventually they found themselves working on a

research project together. A research project that became Google.

Good for: Showing how great minds came together Demonstrating how a development occurred at a certain point in history Showing how symbiotic relationships have formed

See also: Steven Johnson’s TED talk, where he explains how collaboration has fuelled some of

history’s best ideas (www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU)

John Bohannon and the Black Label Movement explain (verbally

and through dance) how scientists and dancers came together to

form an exciting, dynamic alternative to boring presentations.

Watch John’s presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlDWRZ7IYqw

http://www.sparkol.com/engage/8-classic-storytelling-techniques-for-engaging-presentations/


CVTM Table Topics

CVTM Humorous Contest

If you’d like to compete in either CVTM contest, please contact our VPE,

Eloyise Braskic and she’ll put you down on the agenda.

Email [email protected] or call 0400 214 586.

District 17: A Toast to Laughs

Hosted by Victoria Park Toastmasters Club

Watch 10 amateur comedians try their hand (and mouth) at stand-up comedy for the first (or second) time!

Entry only $5

District 17 Annual Quiz Night

Karrinyup Community Centre

Tickets are $15 per head or $100 for a table of eight.

View more information about this event on the following page.

CANNING VALE TOASTMASTERS CLUB

EVENTS & REMINDERS Make the most of your Toastmasters journey!

20 SEPTEMBER

TUESDAY

27 SEPTEMBER

TUESDAY

20 OCTOBER

THURSDAY

29 OCTOBER

SATURDAY


We meet every Tuesday @ 6.30pm

Canning Vale College Library

Dumbarton Road

Phone: 0417 915 464

Email: [email protected]

Canning Vale Toastmasters

@CVTMPerth

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Member Musings

So, here I am, standing at Melbourne airport waiting for a Taxi to arrive… I

was feeling thrilled in opening the next chapter of my life. I don’t know what to

expect, but no worries - A Toastmaster can make anything possible if she

wants! ;-)

My decision to move to Victoria for work was really hard to make indeed. I

was so comfortable with the life I had built during the past 11 years in Perth

and I’ve been enjoying my “Comfort Zone”. Having said that, there is part of

me that was so curious about what the rest of the world is like, so I did what I

learnt from being a Toastmaster– I got out of my comfort zone! I took that job

offer and moved here!

Melbourne is very cold and it has been raining a lot since I arrived. That’s what people say - “don’t

come here for weather!” The food and coffee are definitely top class with huge variety to choose

from, as you probably already know.

I wish all the best to our Canning Vale Toastmasters Club

and each of you on your journey. I hope to see you soon

when I’m in Perth next time, or maybe we’ll catch up in

Melbourne.

Take Care.

Kind Regards,

Hazel Tang

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