Brian Woolf's Workshop on Evaluation and an Open House



Greetings to our 10 guests for the open house!!  We hope you'll visit again any time.  If you join a local Toastmaster club, then before long you could soon join us, too, as a full-time member.  Check out the toastmasters.org site and search for a club near where you live.  As you can see in the map below, there are eight clubs in the immediate Asheville area.



This will not be the traditional set of minutes as it was a non-traditional meeting.  Guest Speaker Brian Woolf has sampled the two sessions he led and has graciously approved the recordings to be put online.  These are on Youtube separately with the headings at the very bottom, and then all three are featured on the Speechmojo website.  The first video of the tools is 30 minutes; the second is the eight-minute test speaker, Stan Coss; the third is 26 minutes of the audience critique of the tools' use.

President Rei Fuller acted as Toastmaster. The meeting began with a joke by Tim Edwards who was also the timer.  Tres Magner was the sergeant of arms.  Prizes were drawn by all the guests.  Alicia Hughes held up the Toastmaster banner in the breezy weather outside Earth Fare to direct in our guests.  One of the about seven posters Glenda Teams-Edwards designed to get our visitors here is sampled below:


Here below are the two books on speaking Brian Woolf wrote and drew from for the workshop.  Audience members were generously given a free copy of the Non-Humorist Handbook.  Both are available on Amazon.com for $20 each.  Brian will be coming out with a third book in about four months.



Stan Coss is now working on a redo of his speech using the feedback from Brian and the members of the audience to make his speech more "memorable."












Members in attendance were the following:  Rei Fuller, Stan Coss,  Alicia Hughes, John Bowen, Tony Kombol, Phyllis Kombol, Kathleen Klawitter, Katherine Anne Alford,  Dada Maheshvarananda,  Tres Magner, Tim Edwards, and Glenda Teams-Edwards.


Here are the video segments available to review the workshop segments in their entirety:

Brian Woolf's Five Tools for Memorable Speaking

"The Neglected Art of Compromise"

Brian Woolf's Give & Take for a Test Speech

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