I can say without a doubt, but quite happily, that you never know what to expect at a Beyond Words meeting …
Our speakers were:
- Gaétane Ferland – CC4, How to Say It – “Born this Way!” … very, very funny
- David Galipeau – International contest speech – “Limited to Limitless” … gave us all something to think about
Then Pierre LeBlanc, Topicsmaster Extraordinaire, led us through an exciting THINK FAST! Session. He presented us with some situational improv games that he’d brought back from a recent trip to Ireland, where he’d watched a professional improv troupe strut their stuff.
Epitace Nobera, GE, led us into a succinct and valuable COACHING SESSION with our four insightful evaluators:
- Marna Murray
- Heysee Verdal
- Sapandeep Randhawa
- Daniel Plante
As always, the speech evaluators and the audience, during the round-robin evaluation, had such interesting things to say. Thanks also to our other amazing evaluators, Jon Pehleman, Grammarian, and Artem Ploujnikov, Advanced Timer.
Strong evaluation skills definitely builds strong communicators and leaders!
Bonnie Mak, Toastmaster, won Most Enthusiastic, one of her fave ribbons to win!
First speaker, Gaetane Ferland, “Born This Way!”
Listening to Gaétane’s speech
Pierre LeBlanc, Topicsmaster
Our excited visitor, Aziz Alromaih
Pierre explaining the improv game to our two players, Jon Pehleman & David Galipeau
Improv games … trying to stump the other player … Gaetane Ferland, Daniel Plante & Aziz Alromaih
Epitace Nobera, General Evaluator
Marna Murray, Content Evaluator, visiting from Vermont
Heysee Verdal, Delivery Evaluator
Sapandeep Randhawa, Content Evaluator
Jon Pehleman, Grammarian
Bonnie Mak, Toastmaster, won Most Enthusiastic, WOOHOO!
