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Discover your story workshop

Story writing and telling expert, Catherine Brophy (Dublin) will help you improve your story in one easy lesson! Bring a story you want to polish/improve. You’ll have a chance to tell your story and to get feedback. Or let Catherine guide you in finding and creating your story. The workshop will focus on: the essentials

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Rhetoric Night

24 Attendees   Led by Natalia and Trevor, we had an evening’s entertainment pulling out all the stops on speaking spontaneously.   Tips and tricks on how to master giving off-the-cuff responses to philosophical, practical, or out of the ordinary questions. Great preparation for our Table Topics Speech Contest on 12 September.   Hope you’ll

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Happy New Year!

38 Attendees   What a great and glorious night! Our first meeting of the Toastmaster New Year!   We decorated the room with balloons and hats and whistles and at least 38 people were present. Natalia transferred to CBT and signed the banner. What a treasure to have with us!   Friedericke came from Mercury;

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The Union Needs You

25 Attendees   On the day of Brexit, our Toastmasters responded with „consolidation“ as the word of the day and a united cry of „I love Europe!“   Time, Space, Unity, and the Peaceful Transition of Power were all on the speakers’ agenda tonight. Ruth explored both our obsession with time and our use of

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The Choice is Yours

38 Attendees   Happy Anniversary, Center Berlin Toastmasters! You’ve come a long way, baby!   On 8 June 2015, CBT held its first meeting. We now have 33 enthusiastic members and a brilliant year of well-run meetings and special events behind us.   Twenty-four of our thirty-three members came together to elect our new Board.

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Live Your Passion

24 Attendees   Live your passion! was the call to action. Summer Sports was the theme. Toastmaster of the Evening Szilvia explained that her twin passions, running and giving Toastmaster speeches, have much in common. There is pain at the beginning; a love-hate dilemma of practice; functionaries as trainers; pleasant expectation over time; and ultimately

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Why?

Why? 22 Attendees   Why? That’s the pivotal question. We often spend more time on determining the “what” or the “how” than we devote to the core “why” of our actions. We talk about our product – the “what”; we talk about our process – the “how.” We forget the force that drives us –

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