Toastmasters offers a terrific opportunity to improve both your speaking skills and your confidence in dealing with a variety of situations. According to many surveys, most people are more fearful of speaking in public than of death.
"Does that mean that the person delivering the eulogy at a funeral would rather be in the coffin?" – Jerry Seinfeld.

Toastmasters gives you the opportunity to learn how to speak in public in a mutually supportive atmosphere - with no risk to life and limb!

By involving yourself in Toastmasters, you can realize dramatic improvements in many areas of your life.

• At work, your communication with employer, associates, and subordinates will become more effective and productive.
• At home, interactions with family and friends will be easier, more enjoyable, and more fulfilling.
• In your community, you will become more effective in getting things said, planned, and done.

Through your membership, you will have opportunities to:

• Acquire and practice techniques of effective public speaking.
• Prepare and present formal speeches on subjects of your choosing.
• Deliver impromptu talks on assigned topics.
• Gain speaking experience that relates to specific career needs.
• Sharpen your listening/evaluation skills.
• Learn proper parliamentary procedure.
• Preside as a meeting chairman.
• Accumulate valuable leadership management experience.
• Develop personal confidence that will help when speaking to one person or one thousand.

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What does it cost?
Membership of Eden-Epsom Toastmasters is surprisingly easy on the pocket. 

A cursory search on the internet will return several hundred sites that offer short courses in public speaking, or confidence building, or presentation skills. 

But what do those courses offer, and how much do they cost? 

Here are some that you might find:

• Public Speaking: Six two hour sessions, $35.00 for the whole course.
• Workplace Communication: Four sessions of 2 hours per week, $40.00 for the whole course.
• Confidence building and assertiveness: Six two-hour sessions, $40.00 for the whole course.
• Advanced Public Speaking: Six two-hour sessions, $40.00 for the whole course.
• One day seminar: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm. Includes all course material, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea. $360.00 inc GST.
• Corporate courses: One day only, anything from $325.00 to $1,250.00 per person.

Sure, you can get short courses, but what long-lasting effect do they have? We know that the Toastmasters experience produces enduring results, when a member makes a long-term commitment to the Club. The reason is that the learning experience is continuous - and as such, is more readily absorbed. This leads to internal change, increased self-awareness and personal growth.

Eden-Epsom Toastmasters Club, like all Toastmasters Clubs world-wide, is a non-profit organisation. The membership fee works out to less than $10.00 per meeting. Fees are payable every six months, in April and September.

There is a one-off joining fee that covers the cost of the Communication and Leadership manual, and life-time registration with Toastmasters International. Membership fees cover the hire of the room, refreshments, photocopying, postage and other administrative costs.

Calculated on a per-meeting basis, membership of Eden-Epsom Toastmasters costs the same as a couple of lattés a week! Where else do you get an Internationally–recognised ongoing education, in a spirit of fun and fellowship, at that price?

Come along to a meeting and see for yourself. Contact us for more detail.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. – Aristotle