Spinnaker Toastmasters Club
Spinnaker Toastmasters Club
Do you want to develop your public speaking skills, so you can speak confidently in front of an audience?
Join Spinnaker Toastmasters Club, a popular and successful community club in Whitby, and begin the rewarding journey to becoming a Competent Communicator.
Spinnaker Toastmasters Club is a community club dedicated to developing and promoting public speaking and leadership skills. We welcome guests, and guest speakers.
Check our News page for photos and stories of our recent activities.
Spinnaker is running its highly popular and successful Speechcraft Course starting on 25 February 2010. This 6 week intensive course is ideal for beginner speakers. As an introduction to public speaking, participants learn how to present a table topic (impromptu speaking), short prepared speeches, and how to evaluate other speakers. Experienced Spinnaker Toastmasters also deliver educationals about how to use your voice and body language, how to begin a speech, and how to evaluate a speech.
You can read more on the Toastmasters International website about How Toastmasters Works.
If you are interested in joining the Spinnaker Speechcraft Course for 2010, please email spinnaker@toastmasters.org.nz to register your interest, stating your name and contact details, and current public speaking experience or skills, or fill in and mail our Registration Form (1 page pdf). The course fee is $145. You will also become a member of Toastmasters until 30 September 2010.
Find out how the 2009 Speechcraft Course participants enjoyed the course from the article on our News page.
The Spinnaker club meets on the 2nd, 4th and 5th Tuesday of the month from 7.30 pm-9.30 pm in the Bradey Room, Whitby Shopping Centre, Discovery Drive, Whitby, Porirua City. Membership is open to anyone over the age of 18 years on acceptance of application to join.
View our Meeting Calendar for meeting dates. For driving instructions, check our Location details and map.
At our fortnightly meetings, you'll learn the skills of speaking confidently before an audience. At first, you'll participate in table topics (known as impromptu speaking) where you'll be given a topic to talk about for 2 minutes. Usually you just talk about yourself the first time.
When you join the club, you'll introduce yourself with a 4-6 minute Icebreaker speech. Then you'll give prepared speeches between 7 and 10 minutes long on topics of your choice, covering a wide range of themes, such as using body language, using your voice, being sincere, persuading, and inspiring your audience.
You'll also learn how to give feedback to other speakers, by evaluating their performance against the speech project criteria in the Toastmasters manual.
View the details of the first speech project by downloading the Icebreaker Speech Project (139KB pdf). You can also read the Breaking the Ice, Getting Started and Table Topics pages on the Toastmasters International website for more information.
Spinnaker has a datashow projector and laptop available for use by club members for Powerpoint Presentations, or you can supply your own laptop. We also have an overhead projector, whiteboard and flipchart.
To find out more about Spinnaker Toastmasters Club, and to arrange a visit to our next meeting, please contact us by phone or email.
We look forward to welcoming you at Spinnaker - where we're helping the world think, listen and speak better.
Last updated: 7 February 2010
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