Mount Gravatt Toastmasters in Upper Mount Gravatt, Queensland | Non-profit organisation

Mount Gravatt Toastmasters

Locality: Upper Mount Gravatt, Queensland

Phone: +61 419 807 971

Address: Mt Gravatt Bowls Club, 1873 Logan Road, Upper Mount Gravat 4122 Upper Mount Gravatt, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.toastmastersmtgravatt.com

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25.01.2022 Exciting news, on 30 June 2020, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced Stage 3 Easing of Restrictions. Our club had made the decision, we will hold our following 3 meetings ( 22/07/2020, 12/08/2020, 26/08/2020) at Mt Gravatt Bowls Club 1873 Logan Road, Upper Mount Gravatt. After nearly half year zoom meetings, finally we can have the opportunities to meet in person. Please come and join us to have some fun and also challenges. Please be aware, because we will need to use the Bowls Club place and facilities, we are required to order some food, the minimum order is $10 per person. The formal meeting time is 7pm to 9pm, but please come at 6:30pm to make your order first.

24.01.2022 Mt Gravatt Toastmasters Meeting #572 - Wednesday 23rd September 2020 We had another wonderful evening in our current venue at the Mt Gravatt bowls club. Beth was our Toastmaster and chose Seasons as our theme for the evening, which was very fitting given the recent transition into the warmer weather we've been experiencing lately. Beth did a wonderful job of guiding us through a fun-filled evening. We were treated to a couple of very informative and enjoyable speeches by two ...of our most experienced members, Grant and Theo, who never cease to impress the rest of us with their confidence and effortless delivery. We also had the pleasure of welcoming a couple of new members into our club, as well as a few valued guests who were incredibly brave in their willingness to participate in the evenings events. Sadly, we did have to say farewell to one of our beloved members and part of our executive team, our former Vice President of Public Relations, Jin, who will certainly be missed. We wish him the best of luck with his new business and know that he will no doubt go on to do wonderful things in his career ahead. Thank you to all who participated in making Mt Gravatt Toastmaster Meeting 572 a great night. See more

24.01.2022 Welcome to our Christmas dinner

23.01.2022 Mt Gravatt Toastmasters 581st meeting kicks off at 7pm tonight!!! If you'd like to attend please don't hesitate to reach out. In case you missed the last meeting, please see our high-speed recap below! Wednesday the 24th of February saw the Mt Gravatt Toastmasters Club meet for the 580th time. Beth hosted the evening as our Toastmaster and chose the theme IG NOBEL PRIZE which proved to be a very interesting subject. We certainly all learned a lot of interesting and humorous f...Continue reading

23.01.2022 Thanks everyone for participating in our club contests last week. Congratulations to all the contestants for your courage to make this move, and much appreciation to those of you who organise this event and give a hand. We wish every Toastmaster find your values and achieve your goals in Toastmasters

23.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS to Jeanie Schroter who celebrated her 20 years with the club last yearThough this award came a bit late, our joy is always there for you! Its never easy to achieve this 20 years goal. During the years Jeanie has done countless wonderful speeches, competitions, and taken on different executives roles. Jeanie not only mentors new members but also gives us heaps of help. Thank you so much for making our club much better. We are grateful to have you and we love the beautiful colours you always bring to us

22.01.2022 Please beaware due to the new COVID-19 restrictions, we have decided to move the meeting BACK TO ZOOM once again. On 26th Aug 2020, 7pm we will have a zoom meeting, and the meeting theme is black and white, you are encouraged to wear black or white to attend the meeting. Thank you!

21.01.2022 We're continuing to enjoy our face to face meeting integrates with Zoom, and last week was no exception. We had a full-size meeting, round Robbin, 4 speeches, table topic, evaluation. And we also had 4 visitors Vincent, Jeff, Vicky, Sam. It is always good to see new faces, and more importantly, they all participated our programs and enjoyed the meeting. If you are interested in practicing public speech skills like we do, come to visit us at Mt Gravatt Bowls Club at 23th September to have some fun.

21.01.2022 Meeting Reminder - Meeting 582 We will be meeting on this Wednesday night (24/03/2021) from 7pm to 9pm at Mt Gravatt Bowls Club. The theme of this meeting is Things To Do in a Lifetime. According to the weather forecast it will be sunny tomorrow, which is exciting after many days raining. You are welcome to come earlier to grab your dinner. ... Guests are welcome! We look forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!

21.01.2022 Meeting reminder -7pm tonight. Every meeting we always have a few experienced members doing their speeches, and a lot of fun public speaking activities, so no matter your goal is to practice your public speaking, or to learn from how other people deliver their speeches, you’ve come to the right place!

21.01.2022 Before moving to your Christmas break, come to enjoy our last normal meeting of the year! Right on 7pm tonight at Garden City Library!

21.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who has liked our page. Your support is appreciated :)

21.01.2022 Mount Gravatt Toastmaster Meeting TOMORROW NIGHT!!! Just a friendly reminder that our regularly scheduled meeting is kicking off at 7pm Wednesday 11th of November at 7PM. Any and all visitors welcome. The address for this meeting is: Mt Gravatt Bowls Club 1873 Logan Road, Upper Mount Gravatt.... If you are interested in attending as a visitor you are most welcome. Please contact us prior on facebook or send us an email: [email protected] so that we can make the necessary arrangements for you. We hope to see you there. Kindest regards, Tom Colhoun VPPR Mount Gravatt Toastmasters Club

20.01.2022 Mt Gravatt Toastmasters Meeting #578 - Wednesday 27th of January 2021 On Wednesday 27th of January we welcomed back our members first meeting of the new year and the 578th meeting of the Mt Gravatt Toastmasters Club. Our Club President Huw took the reigns and guided us through a fun-filled night with his chosen theme of New Year, New You. I think we could all agree that this was a perfectly chosen theme for the night and a great way to kick-off our first meeting of the year. ...Continue reading

19.01.2022 Meeting reminder: in an hour & this Sunday Tonights meeting will be stared in an hour. The theme of tonight is Green, so remember to put in or grab something Green with you! Please note our long-service member John Sutherland has organised a Zoom presentation on "Characteristics of Effective Leaders" on Sunday 14 June starting at 2pm. It is the last remaining requirement for him to achieve his ACG. Please attend the presentation and support him while learning about leadershi...p. You will learn about your leadership style and also will learn to evaluate your team leadership needs. John will give further information at Wednesdays meeting, but please keep the date and time reserved. See comment for Johns Sunday meeting Zoom link

18.01.2022 We made it !!! We are Presidents Distinguished this year !!! Please see the below message from VPE Anil. =======================================...Continue reading

18.01.2022 Dear Toastmasters and guests, Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, starting from tonights meeting, our normal meeting at the library will go online using Zoom, and we will continue to use the online meeting format until the situation with COVID-19 improves. Tonight well start at 6.45 pm and in the first 15 minutes well run through Zoom basics before the meeting proper starts. ... If you would like to join as a guest, please PM us for the Zoom invitation link! Kind regards Mt Gravatt Toastmasters

17.01.2022 Our welcome back BBQ of 2020 Its time to set up your new year resolutions for the new year

16.01.2022 Mt Gravatt Toastmasters Meeting #573 Wednesday 7th October 2020 Mt Gravatt Toastmasters Meeting 573 proved to be yet another fun-filled and entertaining night. Jeanie took the reins as our Toastmaster for the evening with the theme FLOWERS, which was again, another well-timed theme given that Spring is well and truly upon us. Jeanie shared with us many interesting facts about flowers including their cultural and historical significance. One of our newest members, Tom, kicke...d things off with a warm-up activity where each member spoke for approximately 20 seconds about a new beginning in their lives. Everyone did a wonderful job of participating and it was great to learn a little more about each our club members, many of whom shared memories of moving to a new country, starting a new job and even parenthood. We were very pleased to welcome a guest by the name of Constantine, who showed tremendous courage by participating in the exercise without hesitation and spoke of being a proud father. Our first speech of the night was given by Lisa, who enlightened us with an informative speech about various communication styles, including her own. Next up Theo delivered a speech for his second meeting in a row and imparted some wisdom about lessons he had learned in his life. Our third speaker of the evening was Grant, who also spoke for his second meeting in a row, about his style of leadership and reminded us all that accepting responsibility and accountability are absolutely vital components of possessing authority. Our fourth and final speaker of the evening was John, who gave us a very thorough look at the importance of evaluation and constructive feedback given to Toastmasters who deliver speeches, in the interest of helping them improve. All of our speakers spoke wonderfully and hats off to Theo and Grant for delivering speeches in back-to-back meetings. Evauluations were delivered confidently and with some valuable feedback from Pam, Anil, Huw and Andrew. Table Topics were delivered by Dale who tied her topics into the theme of the evening beautifully. We were then very pleased to welcome our Area Director, Tania, to the lectern who gave an evaluation of the table topics and our club in general. It was great to have her join us and participate in the evenings events. Pam kept us all accountable for our use of filler-words as our Grunt Master and Sanjai provided a great general evaluation of the evening with some feedback for each of us to consider. Our Club President, Huw, kept us on time throughout the night as our Time Keeper and closed the meeting at 9pm. Thank you to everyone who was able to attend and participate in Mt Gravatt Toastmasters 573rd Meeting.

16.01.2022 Mt Gravatt Toastmasters Meeting #574 Yet another great Mt Gravatt Toastmasters Meeting took place this fortnight, with Sanjai as our Toastmaster, who chose the theme LIGHTS. Sanjai did a wonderful job of enlightening us with a very informative and entertaining history of the lightbulb, while sharing many interesting facts about it's creation. Pam was our Round Robin/Warm-up Master this evening and got our creative juices flowing with an exercise requiring everyone to suggest ...an invention that would make our lives easier. It was a great topic and saw everyone participate, even two of our brave visitors, Constantine and Prasanna. Some wonderful suggestions were made, from teleportation devices to overcome the bane of the working world... traffic, to a machine that makes you feel like you've spent a day fishing, while you're at work (I think we could all use one of those). We were treated to three spectacular peeches this evening, two of which were Icebreaker speeches, meaning that they were the very first speeches delivered by two of our newest members, Sam Roff and Thomas Colhoun, who were officially sworn in as members along with Senaka this evening. As you can see in the photos above, the Icebreakers were delivered with energy and passion, with both Sam and Tom sharing their personal stories and how they have managed to overcome fear and the opinions of others in the quest for growth and development. Sam certainly made full use of the entire stage as can be seen in the images above, a bold and commendable effort for a first speech. Theo also managed to get us to once again contemplate our lives and our legacies as he delivered a speech for yet another consecutive meeting, sharing the tale of Scrooge from the iconic story, A Christmas Carol. Jeanie, Beth and Grant provided some very useful feedback for our members to consider during their very positive and thorough evaluations, which will certainly help our newest members become more effective public speakers. Our Club President, Huw, communicated some important information about the club's plans moving forward including an exciting Open House event that we will be hosting to showcase what we do and what can be achieved through the Toastmasters Mt Gravatt experience. Lisa our VP of Membership also provided some clarity for newer members to teach us a little more about the Pathways progam, available to all members. Anil also did a great job of keeping us on time, with his Timer's report. Thank you to everyone, especially our very brave guests, Prasanna and Constantine for participating, and for yet another successful meeting at Mt Gravatt Toastmasters. Don't miss the next one, this coming Wednesday 11th of November.

15.01.2022 Another amazing face to face meeting at Mount Gravatt last Wednesday! Comparing with zoom meeting, it feels different when all our members can sit in the same room and have the human interaction. We had a very productive meeting, 4 excellent speeches, a business section and table topics. We had one visitor Tom, and he participated table topic straight away at his first visit. Well done, we are looking forward to hearing your stories and goals at the future meetings. We had area director Tania Rooney visited our club. We like to say thank you for her coming and great support to our club. With her support, we sure our club can become even better.

14.01.2022 Important Update - The next Mt Gravatt Toastmasters meeting, Meeting #573, will be held on Wednesday 7th October 2020, instead of Wednesday 14th. If you have any questions or you would like to attend please don't hesitate to contact us. We hope to see you there.

14.01.2022 Mt Gravatt Toastmasters club invites you to join us at our 'Build a Better You!' Open House event at the Mt Gravatt Bowls Club at 7pm Wednesday 10th February 2021. Mt Gravatt Toastmasters is a public speaking club which helps it's members build confidence, overcome their fear of speaking in front of others, while finding their voice and having fun doing it. Begin your pathway to success today. Contact us to find out more!

14.01.2022 Dear members, tonight is our Christmas dinner! We cant wait to celebrate with our Toastmasters fellows~Dear members, tonight is our Christmas dinner! We cant wait to celebrate with our Toastmasters fellows~

13.01.2022 Its never too late to come to Toastmasters, even though its the end of the year! See you all on 7pm tonight!

13.01.2022 Meeting reminder 7pm on 14/4 Wednesday We can’t wait to see everyone after a snap lockdown and a small Easter break. Due to the restriction please wear a mask if you attend our meeting (but you can take it off when you grab your dinner at Bowls Club

13.01.2022 Meeting Reminder: right on 7pm Garden City Library Tonight is a regular meeting, come and join to get an impression of what our normal meeting looks like, and we promise we will provide you a positive and supportive learning environment in which you will have the opportunity to build communication and leadership skills :)

12.01.2022 Were continuing to enjoy our face to face meeting integrates with Zoom, and last week was no exception. We had a full-size meeting, round Robbin, 4 speeches, table topic, evaluation. And we also had 4 visitors Vincent, Jeff, Vicky, Sam. It is always good to see new faces, and more importantly, they all participated our programs and enjoyed the meeting. If you are interested in practicing public speech skills like we do, come to visit us at Mt Gravatt Bowls Club at 23th September to have some fun.

12.01.2022 Mt Gravatt Toastmasters Meeting #575 Wednesday the 11th of November marked the 575th meeting for the Mt Gravatt Toastmasters Club. One of our most accomplished and experienced speakers, John, hosted the evening as our Toastmaster with his chosen theme COLOURS. All members were encouraged to dress in bright colours on the evening and it was great to see so many deciding to show off a little flare! One of our newest members Sam warmed things up with a very creative and somewhat...Continue reading

12.01.2022 Meeting reminder - tonight and this Sunday Tonight our meeting will be held on Zoom. Another exciting meeting will be on this Sunday. One of our most experienced members Theo is hosting a presentation on Effective Evaluation this Sunday 31 May at 2pm. It is part of the requirements for his ACG. Please support Theo by participating in the workshop. It will be a Zoom presentation. ... Please RSVP your attendance to Theo by email [email protected]

12.01.2022 Our first face-to-face meeting after the lockdown. Lets welcome our new executives for the new financial year 2020-2021

12.01.2022 Meeting reminder - tonight Tonight our meeting will be held at Mt Gravatt Bowls Club 1873 Logan Road, Upper Mount Gravatt. Please be aware, because we will need to use the Bowls Club place and facilities, we are required to order some food, the minimum order is $10 per person. The formal meeting time is 7pm to 9pm, but please come at 6:30pm to make your order first.

11.01.2022 Tonight its going to be very exciting! We will have a speech festival With unusual five speakers tonight, its a rare opportunity to see so many of our members delivering their brilliant speeches. See you all right on 7pm at Garden City Library! Guests are welcome to join this special night!

11.01.2022 Dear Members of Mt Gravatt Toastmasters Andrew will be presenting a workshop on "How to listen effectively" on Sunday 21st of June, at 10am. This workshop is designed to be quite interactive and there will be speaking opportunities as we need someone to speak to be able to listen! There are interactive activities incorporated into this workshop and I anticipate an enjoyable meeting. ... This is the only remaining requirement for Andrew to achieve his ACG and DTM. Please support Andrew by attending. Meeting link: Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8570355144

11.01.2022 Our second attempt at Mt Gravatt Bowls Club and what a night we had! Two new visitors, four speeches, one icebreaker awards, one people joined in from Zoom, and laughs all round! The next meeting again will be hold at the Mt Gravatt Bowls Club 1873 Logan Road on 12/08/2020 will you be joining us at next meeting?

10.01.2022 Thanks everyone for coming to our event last night! We hope you enjoyed it and we look forward to seeing you in our next meeting on 26 Feb!

08.01.2022 An insightful executive meeting we had yesterday - committed to make our club better

07.01.2022 Just a friendly reminder that we will have our regularly scheduled meeting this Wednesday, Sep 9th at 7PM. The address for this meeting is: Mt Gravatt Bowls Club 1873 Logan Road, Upper Mount Gravatt If you are a visitor would like to attend the meeting, you are very welcome. We provide a positive and supportive learning environment in which everyone has the opportunity to learn and have fun. Just make sure you contact us on facebook or send us an Email: [email protected] so we can make the arrangement for you. Please be aware, because we will need to use the Bowls Club place and facilities, we might need to order some basic food. The formal meeting time is 7pm to 9pm, but please come at 6:30pm to make your order first. Kindest regards, Mount Gravatt Toastmasters Club See more

07.01.2022 Just a friendly reminder that our regularly scheduled meeting has been moved forward to tomorrow night, Wednesday 7th of October at 7PM. The address for this meeting is: Mt Gravatt Bowls Club 1873 Logan Road, Upper Mount Gravatt. If you are interested in attending as a visitor you are very welcome. Just please be sure to contact us prior on facebook or send us an email: [email protected] so we can make the necessary arrangements for you. We hope to see you t...here. Kindest regards, Mount Gravatt Toastmasters Club

06.01.2022 Just a friendly reminder that we will have our regularly scheduled meeting this Wednesday, Aug 12th at 7PM. The address for this meeting is: Mt Gravatt Bowls Club 1873 Logan Road, Upper Mount Gravatt... If you are a visitor would like to attend the meeting, you are very welcome. We provide a positive and supportive learning environment in which everyone has the opportunity to learn and have fun. Just make sure you contact us on facebook or send us an Email: [email protected] so we can make the arrangement for you. We are all looking forward to a productive and enjoyable meeting and seeing everyone there. Kindest regards, Mount Gravatt Toastmasters Club

06.01.2022 Attention tonight is a speech contest night! Table topic contest, evaluation contest, humorous contest, which ones your favourite? Come and join us for this exciting event, see you on 7pm

06.01.2022 Meeting reminder: 6:45pm tonight on Zoom! Guests please PM or email us for the invitation link!

04.01.2022 WOo, whats on for Ekka holiday? Maybe there are foods, entertainments, show bags and fireworks... But if you want to find a place to stay away from the crowd, come and join us tonight on 7pm for our regular meeting. Yes we do have meeting tonight even its on Ekka. Guests are welcome.

04.01.2022 Event reminder -7pm tonight at Garden City Library! We are excited to hold this event, and we cant wait to see you tonight!

04.01.2022 Just a friendly reminder that we will have our regularly scheduled meeting this Wednesday, Sep 23th at 7PM. The address for this meeting is: Mt Gravatt Bowls Club 1873 Logan Road, Upper Mount Gravatt If you are a visitor would like to attend the meeting, you are very welcome. Just make sure you contact us on facebook or send us an Email: [email protected] so we can make the arrangement for you.... Kindest regards, Mount Gravatt Toastmasters Club

03.01.2022 Meeting reminder - 6:45PM Tonight Whatever you want to do, do it. Theres only so many tomorrows. Working from home is also a good time to start joining Toastmasters! Remember we have an extra meeting tonight! See you all tonight on 6:45PM online! Guests are welcome!

03.01.2022 Meeting reminder - 6:45pm tonight. Get bored staying home? Why not join us online to sharpen your communication skill and to beat the boredom and burnout? Guests are welcome!

03.01.2022 Which style is you?

03.01.2022 As time flies by, here comes the last day of 2019! Its time to celebrate the new year, also time to reveal to you who is our clubs Toastmaster of the Year! Congratulate to Anil Perera on winning Mt Gravatt Toastmasters Toastmaster of the Year 2019! This is the Third year we nominated a person for this award to honour his/her greatest contribution to the club this year, and this award is anonymously voted by our club members. We are so grateful to have Anil being our VPE ...this year. Anil is a very earnest person, every single of our meeting cannot be running so well without his well-organised plannings and arrangements. Anil also plays active roles in Area even higher level Toastmasters contests. Anil cares about every members progression, encourages us to try different roles and do speeches. We are lucky to have someone being so supportive in helping us improve! Thanks Anil, much appreciation to all of your effort Anil See more

03.01.2022 Meeting reminder - See you on 7pm @Garden City Library. When October comes, the end of the year is around the corner, so tonight we will add a bit Business Meeting section into the normal meeting. Lets sit down to discuss the planning for our club for the next year.

02.01.2022 Happy Easter everyone! Last week we had the great pleasure in inducting our new members - Phoenix, Melissa, Melanie, Andrew, Thomas and Walaa We are so grateful to have you in our family! We will always support you in your journey and we look forward to your next amazing speech!

02.01.2022 When our club first decided to award its own Long Service Awards, we decided that we would award a moment to members who had been part of club for 5, 10, 15 and 20 years! This year, we congratulate John and Jeanie on winning this special award! Particularly we did not expect that a member would be part of our club for 25 years! John joined our club in April 1994, prior to joining our club, John had been a member of Myalla Toastmasters and a pioneer of Toastmasters in ...Mackay. He is now our longest serving member! Since joining our club, John has held several Executive roles, and being our clubs most frequent competitor at area contests. Join is still presenting manual speeches and plans to complete two further Advanced Manuals before June 2020. John turns 85 this years, what else could be more motivating and exciting to see a member of our club for 25 years? See more