Chamber Speakers Circle Toastmasters
Attendees: Lara,
Leif, Randy, David the Area Governor, Annamarie, Martin, Joe, Samya, Chris,
Trey
Guests: Jorge, Belinda
Theme of the day: Sleep
Word of the day: tender
Samya reminded everyone about the upcoming
district conference. She mentioned Aditi,
Annamarie and Trey would attend the District conference. Samya indicated she would send out an email
with more information.
District conference is in Santa Clara on May
16th.
Aditi reminded everyone about the video
contest and wants to get lines from people after the contest.
Aditi was the Toastmaster, Randy Lee led
Table Topics, Trey was the General Evaluator, Chris was the Grammarian,
Annamarie was the timer, Leif was the Ah Counter, Martin was the Vote Counter
Table Topics: Randy Lee led Table Topics
Speaker: Joe
Speech: Mental
Fatigue Awareness Project
#5 Research your Topic
Hours of Service – Department of
Transportation employee research established the basic rule. The Basic Rule established 8 hours to get
quantitative sleep?
Good sleep is defined as quantitative sleep
– people could risk their own lives and co-workers’ lives by not getting
quality rest. Joe noted exhaustion could affect immune
system and personal system, circadian rhythm.
Joe related to most of us when discussing
using the alarm clock. He discussed sleep centers that could help
with sleep disorders diagnosis. Joe shared he had discovered he had a sleep
disorder and described the wires that were applied for the sleep test. He said his sleeping improved after
discovering he had a sleep disorder. Over-sleeping is as bad as poor sleep
quality.
Speaker: Samya
Speech: Yoga
for Voice improvement and tonality Project #3 The Persuasive Approach
David introduced the objectives.
Samya spoke about being a polished speaker,
being seen as trustworthy and credible. She outlined ways to become a better
speaker. Practice is the first one.
Samya indicated that feedback helps, but
asked what we can do with the feedback? She shared that she consistently received
feedback saying her voice needs to improve. She indicated the weakness of her voice made
it hard for people to hear what she is saying and they are interested.
Voice tonality has to do with breathing, not
shyness. Samya connected this with yoga, which is
focused on breathing and her focus of study. She started practicing yoga exercises for breathing. Samya paused, breathe and projected her
voice in demonstration of what she learned when practicing her mantra.
Samya went into detail about the Om Mantra
and the steps, using gestures to show how she learned how to project her voice. With Mantra, the intent is to build energy
and attune the body with the earth. She demonstrated how to use the same
sound with her voice.
Asanas:
·
Kokikasana
·
Sarvangasana
·
Simhasana
·
Yoga
Prathna
·
Breathing:
·
Ujjaji
·
Bharamani
Samya listed the exercises on the board that
would help speakers improve vocal tonality and improve physical and mental
health.
Trey called on his team of evaluators.
Evaluator #1: Lara
evaluated Joe’s speech
Evaluator #2: David
the Area Governor evaluated Samya’s speech
Chris noted
terrific phrases used in today’s meeting.
David the Area Governor noted the
enthusiastic applause throughout the meeting. He
recommended technical problems should be let go and suggested people should
move to the front when participating in Table Topics.
Leif won the
Table Topics contest.
The meeting
ended at 7:18
Roles for the next meeting 5/4/15:
Toastmaster: Lara, Theme: Music
General Evaluator: Aditi
Speaker 1: Trey project #4
Evaluator 1: Annamarie
Speaker 2: Pieter pieterkark@gmail.com
Evaluator #2: Samya
Table
Topics: Chris
Grammarian: Word of
the day: _______
Timer: OPEN
Ah Counter: OPEN
Vote
Counter: OPEN
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