Ice breakers and toastmaster moments
Have you ever found yourself enjoying a public presentation when in the past, you would have done everything to avoid it? That is an example of a toastmaster moment.
Practice makes perfect. If you have been a member of a toastmaster club for a while, you are bound to improve your public speaking skills and overcome your fears of public speaking in time. Your toastmaster moments are in the making.
Toastmaster Bill chose the topic of toastmaster moments to reflect on his journey from being paralyzed by panic attacks at the thought of public speaking to someone who slowing learned to find his own smile and his own voice to share his story of survival.
This led to reflections on ice breakers, these dreaded exercises that are so important for team building. Belle presented “Ice breakers: an analysis.
Our guest Jon shared a lively power point presentation of his recent trip to Japan. I do not recall the title but it should have been ” Japan: a most fantastic destination.”
Traci led a lively round of table topics.
The word of the day was ” maelstrom”
Icebreakers initiate the breaking of the ice by forcing connections. Every time we meet, we break the ice and share our stories. In so doing, we seek and find our voices and conjure our past experiences from the dark corners of our past, to be brought to broad daylight where they may flourish or fade away.
We come together to find our voices, to tell our stories to the world.
Our next meeting is November 18th.
What do Mauritius Island, fashion design, Vaclav Havel, Poutine and the Emerald City have in common? Me! All these ways have led me to ( drum roll...) the Seattle Sunrise Toastmasters where friends and great speakers are made! I look forward to sharing my stories with you!
