Local toastmasters?
Hi - I'm interested in trying Toastmasters, and I might convince my 17 1/2 year old to try it with me. But how do we find a club that meets weeknight evenings near Oakland/Berkeley that would be open to a late teen and a middle aged mom (probably not a retired age group)? I looked on the toastmasters website and the sheer number of clubs around here is overwhelming. I'm also not clear how it works - do you sign up and just go for awhile until you feel you've gotten what you want out of it? It doesn't seem that there's a set course or duration? We both love public speaking but would like to improve.
Oct 8, 2017
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>do you sign up and just go for awhile until you feel you've gotten what you want out of it? You just show up at a meeting and, assuming you like it, pay dues and start going through the speeches. >It doesn't seem that there's a set course or duration?There is a set of 10 broadly defined speeches which you go through. The club I joined just started Toastmasters' new program called Pathways which offers different sets of speeches, depending on whether you want to focus on Persuasion or Storytelling or whatever. People tend to go through the set in about a year. The point is to practice speaking, though, and there are people who keep going for decades honing their skills.