Next Tuesday, September 9th at 8.15 in the Grand Hotel, Fermoy Toastmasters are Back!
Even as the barbecues are put away, the evenings are growing shorter and the swallows are testing their wings for their southerly migration, autumn beckons us to come into the bright cheerfulness of the new season of Fermoy Toastmasters Club. We look forward to the buzz of genial chatter as you approach the meeting room door standing open in wide welcome, the joy of seeing familiar happy faces again and the hope of the new eager faces of very welcome guests, to shaking hands and asking did you have a good summer before the emphatic sounding of the gavel brings the meeting to order for two hours of quick thinking and the eager spontaneity of quick response, of listening with pleasure to the many colourful contributions of others and winning the fulfilment of knowing you have offered something so richly and uniquely your own to the meeting. We look forward to going back to the music of great humour and the building of a wonderful atmosphere born out of beautiful expression, the sharing of ideas and experience together with the enjoyment of companionship and togetherness with truly lovely people. Back so many moments of laughter and applause, of wit and originality, of pleasure and enjoyment launching us on another bracing and exhilarating journey of Toastmasters. Except ours is never a journey of going back, but of ever and always moving further ahead to brighter and better places in life. That’s why you always come home from a Toastmasters meeting with a warm high feeling with stimulus and elation.
This club has played a pivotal and illuminating role in the leisure and recreational life of this community for almost four and half decades. Its appeal is timeless and evergreen through all seasons for all of its activities are a great celebration of life. There you find all the things that make us better people and the world a kinder place: mutual encouragement and support, generosity of spirit and the freedom of the imagination, members bringing alive in a very powerful way the richness of their own lives and the fruits of their own research with that clarity of expression that comes from brevity and the sharing of your discoveries to an audience of friends. The essence of the craft is participation and motivation. No one falls asleep at a Toastmasters meeting. It moves along at a brisk pace and is highly invigorating and expansive, like walking along the shoreline with a bracing sea breeze in your face. It gives you the opportunity to channel your gifts and talents in a vivid and exciting way that makes for great enjoyment and immense satisfaction even as you share in the uplifting feeling of supporting and encouraging your fellow members in all that we are building and achieving together.
Guests can be fully assured that they will never be asked to speak, but may do so at the appropriate time if the spirit moves them. There is never any criticism, but positive feedback in the form of constructive evaluation praising all that has been achieved and pointing the way to ever further progress. This is a very special form of active self-learning where proficiency is gained and wisdom attained not by passively sitting through a lecture, but by joining in a brilliant willingness to give it a go, finding within your self ever greater depths so as to reach beyond to ever greater heights of accomplishment and personal renewal. No one tells you what to say or what to talk about: instead you find the thrill of using your own words to give wings to your own ideas and inspiration. If you give it a fair chance, you will be amazed by what fun it really is and the amount of pleasure and personal enrichment there is to be had and to share. We are a group where everyone is a winner and we all grow ever stronger in the success and achievement of each and every one of us.
At the heart of what we do are the arts of communication and leadership. When Fermoy Toastmasters first embarked on its journey, there were no such things as mobile phones, Internet or social media. All of these means of communication have made our lives so much better in so very many ways. But there will never be a substitute for the warmth of human contact and personal interaction, of people relating to each other directly and at ease in each other’s company, sharing in the experience of a great harnessing of creative energy and in having a very lovely and enjoyable time together for that is how all of us, as human beings, most effectively and powerfully give each other comfort and support on life’s journey.
In our club as in every club throughout the world we are there to build and enhance each other and thereby secure the mutual progress and betterment of all. Together we can move mountains and attain heights far beyond the reach of any of us acting alone. We are a happy club, a group of great friends who like noting better than to gather for our club meetings for the months between September and May enjoying the convivial atmosphere and the good cheer of sharing in the enjoyment of what we love. And the more who come to share and participate in our activities, the greater the entertainment and attainment of everyone. We are a warmly welcoming group, our door is open to everyone and we invite you to come in – friends old and new alike – to tell us something of your story, share something uniquely and precious for its being solely your own, for we all have so much insight, wisdom and depth to offer, to receive and to learn from our fellow members and friends. It is an unending voyage of personal discovery and growth, of pleasure and happiness.
We look forward to seeing you at our first meeting of the new season in the Grand Hotel on Tuesday next, September 9th, at 8. 15 pm. For further information, please contact Fanahan Colbert at 086 8239007 or Kevin Walsh at 058 60100 or log on to toastmastersfermoy.com or find us on Twitter @ Fermoy
This club has played a pivotal and illuminating role in the leisure and recreational life of this community for almost four and half decades. Its appeal is timeless and evergreen through all seasons for all of its activities are a great celebration of life. There you find all the things that make us better people and the world a kinder place: mutual encouragement and support, generosity of spirit and the freedom of the imagination, members bringing alive in a very powerful way the richness of their own lives and the fruits of their own research with that clarity of expression that comes from brevity and the sharing of your discoveries to an audience of friends. The essence of the craft is participation and motivation. No one falls asleep at a Toastmasters meeting. It moves along at a brisk pace and is highly invigorating and expansive, like walking along the shoreline with a bracing sea breeze in your face. It gives you the opportunity to channel your gifts and talents in a vivid and exciting way that makes for great enjoyment and immense satisfaction even as you share in the uplifting feeling of supporting and encouraging your fellow members in all that we are building and achieving together.
Guests can be fully assured that they will never be asked to speak, but may do so at the appropriate time if the spirit moves them. There is never any criticism, but positive feedback in the form of constructive evaluation praising all that has been achieved and pointing the way to ever further progress. This is a very special form of active self-learning where proficiency is gained and wisdom attained not by passively sitting through a lecture, but by joining in a brilliant willingness to give it a go, finding within your self ever greater depths so as to reach beyond to ever greater heights of accomplishment and personal renewal. No one tells you what to say or what to talk about: instead you find the thrill of using your own words to give wings to your own ideas and inspiration. If you give it a fair chance, you will be amazed by what fun it really is and the amount of pleasure and personal enrichment there is to be had and to share. We are a group where everyone is a winner and we all grow ever stronger in the success and achievement of each and every one of us.
At the heart of what we do are the arts of communication and leadership. When Fermoy Toastmasters first embarked on its journey, there were no such things as mobile phones, Internet or social media. All of these means of communication have made our lives so much better in so very many ways. But there will never be a substitute for the warmth of human contact and personal interaction, of people relating to each other directly and at ease in each other’s company, sharing in the experience of a great harnessing of creative energy and in having a very lovely and enjoyable time together for that is how all of us, as human beings, most effectively and powerfully give each other comfort and support on life’s journey.
In our club as in every club throughout the world we are there to build and enhance each other and thereby secure the mutual progress and betterment of all. Together we can move mountains and attain heights far beyond the reach of any of us acting alone. We are a happy club, a group of great friends who like noting better than to gather for our club meetings for the months between September and May enjoying the convivial atmosphere and the good cheer of sharing in the enjoyment of what we love. And the more who come to share and participate in our activities, the greater the entertainment and attainment of everyone. We are a warmly welcoming group, our door is open to everyone and we invite you to come in – friends old and new alike – to tell us something of your story, share something uniquely and precious for its being solely your own, for we all have so much insight, wisdom and depth to offer, to receive and to learn from our fellow members and friends. It is an unending voyage of personal discovery and growth, of pleasure and happiness.
We look forward to seeing you at our first meeting of the new season in the Grand Hotel on Tuesday next, September 9th, at 8. 15 pm. For further information, please contact Fanahan Colbert at 086 8239007 or Kevin Walsh at 058 60100 or log on to toastmastersfermoy.com or find us on Twitter @ FermoyT