Meeting of June 8, 2024
For the first meeting of the new committee, led by new president Peterson, we had two speakers, table topics, and a special Business Session. Graham was Toastmaster of the Evening. A special guest was...
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Meeting of January 29, 2024
Being the fifth Monday, this was an online meeting using Zoom Table Topics were given by Alexandre.
Meeting of January 22, 2024
The second meeting attracted a good number of guests. Table Topics were given by Philipp.
Meeting of January 8, 2024
The first meeting of 2024 had fewer members as it was still the winter holiday period. Division Director Godela Bittscher was a special guest and evaluated Graham. We started a new tradition: the Jokemaster...
Meeting of August 28, 2023
On Monday 28 August 2023 we had three prepared speeches, their evaluations, and Table Topics as usual. First speaker was Penny of the Luzern Club, speking on “Stoicism”. She fulfilled a project or the...
Get to know Bern Toastmaster’s new Club President
Bern Toastmaster’s new President Katja Töttler hit the ground running in July (2020) leading the officers’ transition at a time of uncertainty due to Covid-19. With a whopping 16 years of TM membership which...
Looking back, as Bern Toastmasters ushers in the new year
July marks the beginning of the club year here at Toastmaster’s Bern. We’re excited to start a new year (2020-2021) having spent the last three months exploring new ways to keep club activities running...
Follow-up on “Good Enough Is Not Good Enough” Workshop
Just before the lockdown, we invited professional speaker Dr Damian Conway to hold a workshop about the seven mistakes that keep people form being a great speaker. We reached out to him down under...
Follow-Up on the Workshop about our authentic Voice
On the 28th of October we invited Christine Dilschneider, owner of stimmpräsenz.ch to teach us about our authentic voice. The workshop was refreshing, interesting and extremely useful to all of us. I have furthermore...
Conscious Speaking
Speaking is one of the main feats in a Toastmasters Club, and it’s also the main goal of many of us to become a Distinguished Toastmaster, since this is the highest level of educational...
Follow up ‘How to bring your presentation to life’ workshop
At our last meeting, we invited Helen von Dadelszen from Toastmasters Nyon to teach us – and make us practice – about voice variation, body language, and stage presence. After walking confidently using the...