MIND, BODY &

PUBLIC SPEAKING
BE A CHAMPION
A TRAINING-LEARNING
PUBLIC SPEAKING PROGRAM

. Learn to MANAGE Your MIND & Body and To SPEAK in PUBLIC,

Learn Life-Changing Ways to Control Your Own Mind and Body,
while learning to Become a Skilled Public Speaker.
By
Ibrahim Clive Randell CHAMPION, the “Champ”
With
Illustrations by
&
Help from FRIENDS
2019
Published by AMAZON

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 THE CHAMPION MAB [Mind and Body]
PUBLIC SPEAKING PROGRAM
CONTENTS
Page
THANKS
HOW TO RUN THIS PROGRAM
INTRODUCTORY NOTES TO PROGRAM
SESSION 1 : INTRODUCTORY SESSION
1a(i). All Personal Problems Are Interpersonal Problems.
1a(ii) MAB (Mind And Body):- THE 7 TO 1 METHOD:
ENTERING ALPHA: SETTING GOALS
1b. SPEECH 1: INTRODUCING MY FRIEND
Skills Focus: Passion, Overcoming Nervousness, Organisation,
1c.: Instructions for Speech 2: A Disaster
1d. A WORD ABOUT ENCOURAGEMENT
SESSION 2:.
2a (i) MAB: POSITIVE MENTAL ENERGY
2a (ii) POSTURE
2b: SPEECH 2; A DISASTER plus Encouragement
Skills Focus: Voice Projection, Vocalisation and Structure
2c: Instructions for Speech 3: The Power of Water
SESSION 3.
3a EYE EXERCISES
3b (i): Impromptu Speaking Session
3b (ii) SPEECH 3: WATER; A Story about Water
Skills Focus: Vocal Variety – Happy, Sad, Agree, Angry, Question 3c:
Instructions for Speech 4: A Mime

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SESSION 4
4a: IN ALPHA – SETTING BIG GOALS
4b: SPEECH 4: A MIME
Skills Focus: Body Language – Seen Communication
4c: Instructions for Speech 5: Radio News Reading or a Eulogy.
SESSION 5:
5a: MAB: FINGER-RING MEMORY CO-ORDINATION)
5b: SPEECH 5: RADIO NEWS READING or A EULOGY
Skills Focus: Spoken Skills: Passion, Clarity, Speed, Pauses, Comments
5c: Directions for Speech 6: TV News Reading
SESSION 6:
6a: MAB: MENTAL SCREEN; SLEEP CONTROL
6b: SPEECH 6: TV NEWS READER
Skills Focus: Spoken Skills: Passion, Clarity, Speed, Pauses,
Limited Body Action, Audience Engagement
6c: Directions for Speech 7: A Debate eg: Pot should be decriminalized
SESSION 7.
7a: MAB: WAKING CONTROL PROGRAMMING
7b: SPEECH 7: A DEBATE eg. Pot should be decriminalized
Skills Focus: Passion, Audience Contact, Intelligence, Organisation
7c: Instructions for Speech 8: Nature Knows Best
SESSION 8:
8a: MAB: REMEMBER DREAMS & USE DREAMS
8b: SPEECH 8: NATURE KNOWS BEST -HEALTHY FOOD 1:
Vitamins, Minerals, Fibre, Fats & Oils, Fruits & Vegetables,
Skills: Show What You Mean, Demonstration, Audience Contact
8c: Instructions for Speech 9: Ferment, Vocab Skills, Alliteration etc.

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SESSION 9:
9a: MAB: HEAD-ACHE CONTROL
9b: SPEECH 9: HEALTHY FOOD 2- FERMENTED & ORGANIC
Skills Focus; Vocabulary, Collocations, Pronumciation, Explanation
9c: Instructions for Speech 10: Self Control Wins
SESSION 10:
10a: MAB: MIND MIRROR and BODY CONTROL
10b: SPEECH 10: SELF CONTROL WINS
Skills Focus: Using PPP or Flip Charts plus Involving Audience
10c: Instructions for Speech 11: Many Ways of Making a Mark
SESSION 11:
11a: MAB: FLOATING HAND & DESENSITIZED HAND 11b:
SPEECH 11: MANY WAYS OF MAKING A MARK;
OVERCOMING ADVERSITY
Skills Focus: Combining All Skills 11c:
Instructions for Speech 12: Movers & Shakers Make Changes
SESSION 12:
12a: MAB: GLASS OF WATER 12b:
SPEECH 10: MOVERS & SHAKERS Community Programs:
Skills Focus: All Skills Combined 12c
(i): Final Speech Encouragements 12c
(ii): PROGRAM EVALUATION 12c
(iii): PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES
APPENDIX A: SPEECH EXERCISES

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 ILLUSTRATION HERE

THANKS
MANY many people contributed directly and indirectly to the
production of this teaching manual for running classes to learn to speak in
public and to improve control of mind and body.
Firstly, thanks to my wonderful wife, Megawati, who gave me
moral support and to the lovely staff of the Indonesian Department of
Immigration in Banda Aceh who were so kind to me as they performed their
duties, deporting me fron Indonesia for not having a passport. If I hadn’t been
deported I would probably never have found the time to write this manual..
Thanks too, to my son Zein and his lovely wife Danielle and their 3
lovely children, Noah, Emilia and Isaac who took me in and looked after me
after I got back to Melbourne and to my other son ED whose looking after me
now And to the staff of Centre-Link in Frankston, on the Bay, who helped me
get my Senior Citizens Pension, so I had time to write.
Thanks to the Toastmasters Speechcraft course at the Southern
Cross University in Lismore in 1995 that introduced me to Public Speaking
and thanks to all the Toastmasters that have helped me on my way in Jakarta
TMI in 1996 and then in the clubs we started in Medan, Indonesia in 1998.
Then a great many thanks to all the staff and students where I taught
Speaking English in Banda Aceh, Indonesia for the decade from 2008 to
2018, especially Dr Burhaniddin and staff from the English studies Depart-
ment in the Faculty of Teaching at University Syah Kuala plus Dr Iskandar
from the Universitas Serambi Mekkah and the staff there who helped me.
And last but not least, Ross Blunt and all the wonderful Toastmasters in
Smashing the Envelope TMC in Melbourne in 2019, who’ve worked with me
and made me feel so welcome as I refined the learning points for this manual.
A GREAT BIG THANKS AND APPLAUSE TO YOU ALL
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CHAMP, April 1st 2019

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NOW, HOW TO RUN THIS LEARNING-BY-DOING PROGRAM
ORGANISATION OF SPEAKING SESSIONS
The CHAMPION MAB PUBLIC SPEAKING PROGRAM has been
written for use in schools and organizations, especially in Indonesia,
that want to give their students, workers or participants the benefits of
learning to manage themselves and also of learning to speak in public.
This guide has been written for a group learning program where
the whole group learns together at the same time: Where the teacher,
who will be called the organizer or coach or adviser from now on, will
start each session and run the first part of each session, the (a) or
special training part, while all the participants (in schools these will
usually all be students, but they can also be teachers), T repeat, all the
participants will learn about self mind and body control as well as
learning all the skills for speaking in public. This program refers to
organizers, coaches, encouragers and participants not teachers, students
and evaluators: This is done to emphasize the horizontal relationships
we want to develop between everyone in this training-learning-by-
doing program by contrast with the more common, traditional vertical
relationship of teacher-evaluator over students . We do this because we
believe, from experience, that this emphasis on encouragement
produces better results, ie., better speakers, who retain and practice
what they’ve learnt better.
This program has 12 session; if the group is small, 16 or less
participants, every participant should speak before the whole group at
every session: However, if the group is large, 17 or more, up to 44
maximum ie.,4 x 11 = 44, each participant should first speak in a sub-
group of 3 or 4 and then only 1 or 2 from each sub-group will speak
before the whole group in 8 of the sessions, while all theparticipants
should perform before the whole group for the introductory, mime,
debate and the final sessions.

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 To be awarded a certificate at the final session, each participant
should give all 12 performances. Hence, this program can fit within a
standard University term or semester in Indonesia where students must
attend a minimum of 12 sessions or lectures in a term or semester
which is usually 15 or 16 weeks long. Any participant, who has
missed out on a couple of performances could be allowed to catch up
the missing speeches in an extra session for catch-ups or at a later
program. If there are a lot of participants. who’ve missed giving 1 or 2
performances, session 12 can be used for catch-up speeches and a
special 13th session can be programmed for the final speeches and the
graduation.
At the first session, if needed, the group should elect a Group
Leader and Deputy, a Group Secretary and a Group Treasurer. If the
group is mixed, if possible, half of these should be from each gender.
Each Session, in the program, has three sub-sessions, namely:
(a) The special mind-body training sub-session
(b) The speeches/performance sub-session where the encouragements
are usually interspersed in groups of 3 or 4 between the speeches and
(c) The directions for preparation of the next speech sub-session.
The mind-body session will be run by your organizer;
Each Speeches Sessions will be run by a Speech Master or
Organizer and each Encouragements Session should be run by an
Encouragement Master or Organizer. After each session of 3 or 4
speeches there should be an encouragements speech session for the 3 or
4 speeches just completed. The Speech Organiser and Encouragement
Organiser for each Meeting Session should be appointed at the end of
the previous meeting session.
Because of the Mind and Body sub-sessions the meeting program will
usually be very full for the usual 1hr40m. double period university
program; ideally a triple period program ie., 2hr 30m. should be
allocated. Because the program will usually be too full it will usually
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not be possible to have additional minor programs such as Off-The
Cuff (OTC) or Impromptu speech sessions at every meeting.
Accordingly only one example of each of a variety of such programs
have been included in the overall program so that the participants can
know and learn about them. Hopefully, some of the participants will
later form or join speaking clubs in the future and will be able to use
these minor programs in their overall programs to maintain the interest
of participants and ensure that all present at a meeting get one or more
opportunities to speak at every meeting, so that they will get the
opportunity to learn and practice speaking impromptu and using
humour and so on.
One of the reasons why all these materials have been included in
this guide book like format is to encourage the formation of
independent speaking clubs in Universities, colleges and schools and
large corporate organizations or even in communities in places like
Indonesia where the cost of joining Toastmasters International is
beyond the means of the average person. Later on, when people are
working and can afford it, any of thom who become really passionate
about speaking in public can join a Toastmasters club or form a new
one if they want to join into International Speaking Competitions.
This book can also be used as a guide for learning to speak in
public in any language because the principles of speaking in public are
the same, the skills of voice projection, vocal variety, speed of speech,
body language, eye contact, eye talk, speech structure, using props and
PPP are all the same, just change the language, just change the
grammar!

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 INTRODUCTORY NOTES TO PROGRAM
This Book is written as a Manual for conducting a Learning by Doing
Program that combines two programs:namely – a program to learn Public
Speaking and a program to Manage Mind And Body (MAB) or Self Mind
and Body Control with Personal Health.
The Learning to Speak in Public program uses many techniques and
practices successfully followed by Toastmasters International over the last
century that have been used successfully by millions of Toastmasters over the
years. This new program detailed here follows a similar pattern to that of
Toastmasters, learning the skills needed for speaking in public, step by step.
One main difference between this program and a Toastmasters Club Program
is that all the learners or participants in this program are learning in lock-step,
all preparing and giving speeches on the same topic at the same session or
meeting whereas, at public speaking club meetings, the members at each
meeting are at many different stages of learning with a multiplicity of topics..
Secondly, the training–learning of skills to manage mind and body
follow programs for developing skills for Self Control of the Mind
successfully developed by the Silva Mind Control Program over the last half
a century. The reason for combining these two programs, the Public Speaking
and the Mind Control Program is because Public speaking itself is in fact an
exercise in Mind Control, remembering all the elements of your speech and
combining all the skills for a good speech is certainly an exercise in mind
control. So learning specific techniques to manage MAB and combining
them with learning skills for speaking in public will enable participants to
learn the skills for Public speaking better and hence to produce even better
speeches: Moreover the skills learnt in MAB can be carried over into daily
life and can be of much benefit for learners espec-ially for students and for
those with specific problems like low self esteem.
A third element in this program is the exercises in voice control for
which we are indebted to Michael McCallion, who wrote the “bible” for
voice production namely “The Voice Book”.
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 And finally the fourth element combined and woven into this program
is Personal Health which is based on programs that the Champ (Grandpa
Champion) has developed over many years: These have come from a
personal interest in health and combine knowledge from many different
fields. While it is easy to develop a public speaking program where the
learners speak about their hobbies, their hang-ups and their ideal holidays, the
Champ believes that much greater benefits can come from the extra effort to
run a program that includes Personal Health issues The reason for combining
the learning about Personal Health issues with learning about Public
Speaking is to make the Program even more beneficial for the learners, once
again for students and people with specific problems. Much of the
information in this program is not generally known or taught in schools or
even in institutes of higher learning for example the information about water
in the body or about eye exercises and some like the information on the
dangers of sugar and the mendacity of the soft drink companies is actually
kept secret from the general public.
This program can be run over twelve months with one session a month,
or six months with one session every 2 weeks or over 3 months with one
session a week or over one week (six days) with two sessions a day or even
over a long weekend with 4 sessions a day. The program has been
copyrighted and teachers wanting to be accredited to teach-learn this program
can join a more in depth program – Please send expressions of interest to
championeko@yahoo.com
By combining all these program elements into one co-ordinated,
combined program, it is our hope that the learners will not only learn and
develop the confidence to speak in public but will also learn some aspects of
Self Mind and Body Control that can be applied in all areas of life as well as
learning many ways of improving and maintaining their own Personal Health.
In short the graduates from this short multi-faceted program should learn
much more than learning how to speak in Public: They should also learn
much that they can use in their lives which will greatly enhance their health
and their personal self esteem.
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 SEATING ARRANGEMENTS:
For a small group, up to 15 plus a coach, the participants for this pro-
gram can sit in a U shape giving presentations from the head of the U or they
can sit around a long (double) table, standing up to give their presentations
except for Mime (4) and Debate (9).
MC Speaker Coach
1 15
2 14
3 13
4 12
5 11
6 7 8 9 10
Fig 1: Seating in U for 15 participants
For bigger groups, it will be best to sit in small circles of 4 or 3 with or
without a small table for each circle. The circles can be arranged in a U so
that for the speeches to the whole group, the speaker (s) will again speak
from the head of the U. . ..
MC Speaker Coach
Grou Group
p 11
1
Grou Group
p 10
2
Grou Group
p 9
3
Grou Group Group Group Group
p 5 6 7 8
4
Fig 2: Seating of Groups in U for 42 to 44 Participants,
each group 4 participants

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SESSION 1 – INTRODUCTION TO SPEAKING IN PUBLIC.
1a(i): ALL PROBLEMS are INTERPERSONAL PROBLEMS
When we start to do any new activity that require new skills, we
will usually find we have to learn from watching others and then we
have to practice what we have learnt, moreover any complex activity
and speaking in public is a complex activity invariably has to be broken
down into separate skills and the skills have to be practiced before
finally combining them into a co-ordinated whole that appears masterful
and easy. Even lear-ning to drive a car is best learnt by practicing the
various skills separately and then combining them together. So first the
skilled instructor will get her student to practice driving slowly and
braking on a straight stretch of road not used by many other vehicles,
the student will first practice driving slowly, accelerating and braking in
first gear only, then accelerating and braking whilst driving aroumd in
circles, turning this way and then that way, to left and to right eg in a
large car park at a super market when its closed or in a station car park
on a public holiday when hardly anyone is using it.- braking and
steering are the two most important life-saving skills viz : braking to a
stop and steering to get out of the way to avoid an accident, so they
have to be mastered first. The student must learn to always be in
control, in touch with her pedals and her steering wheel, sitting up
straight, holding the wheel in the 10 to 2 (o’clock) position with her
right foot (in Australia, with driving on the left of the road and drivers
sitting on the RHS of the car), her right foot must be.on one pedal or the
other, the brake or the accelerator, she must not take her foot completely
off the pedals. Next, the beginner in a manual car has to learn the co-
ordination between gears and clutch, driving round and round changing
up and down, down and up from 1st gear to 2nd gear and back again and
then gradually extending till up to top gear and then from top down to
1st gear again until it becomes second nature. Drivers of automatic cars
don’t have to learn this skill [and hence are not allowed to drive manual
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manual drive car]. Then the learner has to learn to park, which will
teach her how to reverse and how to use rear vision mirrors. Next, the
learner driver has to practice in light traffic at low speeds, ie on
suburban or country roads and gradually add practice on main roads and
then on freeways and finally at high speeds on busy toll roads. Then she
has to get practice driving at night plus the difficult tasks of driving into
the sun at dawn and at dusk. In addition she has to learn how to check
tyre pressures and how to change a tyre and what to do in the event of
an accident. All of which look simple when you’re watching a skilled
driver, like a taxi driver but require learning and much practice for the
beginning driver.
It’s the same with learning to speak in public – it looks easy, when
you’re watching an experienced person speaking at a public forum or on
TV but in reality it is the combination and co-ordination of many
separate skills, so that they flow together as a result of much practice. In
particular the skills of speaking with passion, voice projection,
vocalization or vocal variety, body language, eye contact and eye talk,
speed of speech, use of pauses and lack of filler words (eg., aah, umm
etc.), identification & contact with the audience, speech structure and
choice of vocabulary and colloca-tions, use of personal examples and
good use of PPPs (Power Points) and/or demonstrations plus avoiding
boring homilies and finally closing with a good, memorable, wham-
MAB take-home message and a thank you to the audience and no, I
repeat NO, NO, NO apologies, you do your best at all times and there is
never any need to apologize for that. .
ALL OF THE SKILLS NEED TO BE LEARNT AND
PRACTISED, SEPARATELY IF POSSIBLE, THEN COMBINED
AND PRACTISED TOGETHER AND PRACTICED AND
PRACTISED AND . .AND . .. There is no such thing as Sim-Salla-Bim,
no Magic way, NO Instant Noodles way of cooking up a great speech.
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 Now, firstly what are the reasons why you can’t speak well in public
and secondly what is the reason why you want to learn to speak in
public?
Take a moment and write down your reasons here: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1st
Why I’m afraid to speak in public is because:
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2nd I want to learn to Speak well in Public because:: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
..............................................................
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..
Now, very often, the first problem the beginning speaker has to
over-come is the personal problem where the person tells themselves
{and others too} that “I can’t speak in public”. But this is patently
untrue, of course they can ask directions, or tell the shoe sales person
what kind of shoes they want and so on. So what are they really saying?
The problem is really an interpersonal problem and what the person is
really saying is “I’m afraid of what other people will think or say if they
hear me speaking in public!”.So as Adler says all (personal) problems
are really interpersonal problems. Thus the problem is not that the
person cannot speak in public but that they are afraid of what people
will say if they hear them. So what is the solution – the solution is
simple – make it a project and don’t worry or even think about what
other people will think. So how do you make your problem into a
project – simple – you set a simple goal with simple guidelines that you
as a beginner can easily complete: We will do this with the first speech
which you will all do later in this 1st Session .

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SESSION 1a (ii) : 7 TO 1 TO ENTER ALPHA & SET A SIMPLE GOAL
After learning and practicing this First Method, you will be able to set goals
that you can achieve, in particular you will be able to solve problems in life
by setting goals to overcome your problems and eventually achieving them. It
is important in life to have goals that you can work towards and achieve.
Without goals you are like a ship or a plane going around with no destination
until you crash.
When you have a goal , you have a destination, a target that you can work
towards, you can plan steps to reach your goal; even a simple goal like flying
a kite has several steps like deciding on the design of the first kite, getting the
materials , making the kite, decorating your kite and finally flying your kite
then you can set the next goal to build and fly a more amazing kite. As you
can see goals usually have steps, growing in difficulty and challenges, just
like going to school for example a student can make a goal to get top scores
in middle school or university in order to get a scholarship to a top school or
university for further higher education and so on.
By using the CHAMP MAB methods and setting goals you can make your
dreams come true.
STEP 1: Visualize your goal, - visualize achieving your goal, sense all the
feelings, colours, sounds, smells, sights –e.g., visualize your friends and
family around you when you graduate if that’s part of your goal; now
visualize the steps to your goal. Note: It is best to start with a simple goal that
can be achieved in a few days or weeks at little cost like learning to fly a kite,
as in the example above or learning to make cut-out paintings like certain
great artists did, however today tou’re just going to visualize giving a short
speech, in particular a short 2 to 3 minute speech introducing your speaking
partner. You’re going to visualize your speech flowing out in a smooth stream
of words, with some appropriate pauses where the audience claps and finally
closing saying something like “ So please give our new colleague a great/
rousing welcome!” and start the clapping as you sit down. .

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STEP 2: Next - get into the alpha state:
i) Sit comfortably, relax from the top of your head to the tips of your
toes
ii) Close your eyes:
ii) Breathe in slowly and deeply;
iv) Visualize 7 and say 7, five times under your breath as you breathe
out slowly [take at least 5 seconds to breath out], your coach can say the
numbers out loud;
v) Breathe in slowly and deeply and then visualize 6 and say 6 five
times under your breath as you breath out;
vi) Continue repeating breathing in slowly and deeply and then
visualize 5, 5 times; then 4, 4times; then 3, 3 times counting slower and
softer; then 2, twice and finally visualize 1 and say a drawn out 1, once
under your breath as you breath out;
vii) You should now be in alpha, a deeply relaxed, trancelike state,
while you’re not asleep, you’re still aware of things around you: But
DON’T OPEN YOUR EYES because the moment you do, the flood of
visual information will instantly bring you back to the normal beta or
wide-awake state. Moreover, if you are not yet in a deeply relaxed,
trancelike state, for example you still feel tense or agitated or excited
then you or your coach can start again. – only this time have a longer
count down eg from 11 or 17 to 1 or even more if you have to. You will
soon get to know the feeling of deep relaxation while still aware with
your eyes closed. If however you go to sleep, maybe you were too tired
before you started; so when you wake up do the 7 to 1 exercise again to
get back into alpha. Similarly if you open your eyes to have a look
around, then just close your eyes again and start the 7 to 1 process again
until you get into alpha.
viii) Now that you’re in alpha, visualize achieving your goal like you
did in Step 1, visualize in full color with all your senses achieving your
goal with your goal coming from your right (more about that later); then
visualize the steps to achieve your goal coming from the right into your
field of vision until you again visualize achieving your goal – now
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 savour what it will feel like to achieve your goal, how you will feel
personally and as a bonus savour the compliments you’ll receive from
your friends and the praise from your family, your parents and/or your
partner.
ix) Now it’s time to come out of alpha level using the 1 to 7 method:
First you, if you’re on your own count 1 under your breath, not out
loud; or your advisor/coach/leader if you’re in a group, can first count 1
out loud and you follow under your breath, then after taking a short
breath 2 then again after a breath 3, then after counting 4, you, under
your breath, or your coach, out-loud, says –“At the count of 7, I will
open my eyes, be wide awake, in perfect health and better than ever.”
x) Then, continue the count; after another breath count 5, then 6, then
after a breath say 7 you open your eyes & say out-loud: “I’m now wide
awake, in perfect health and feeling better than ever, better than
before.”
[ If you have a health problem and are not in perfect health say “in
better health. .”]
You should repeat the exercise above as often as appropriate, daily for a
short term goal, weekly for a medium term goal, monthly for a longer
term goal - until the goal is achieved and/or you change your goal.

1a (iii) ENCOURAGEMENT
In this course we encourage encouragement, most speaking
classes and speaking clubs use evaluations but apart from the fact that
evaluations can be both positive and negative. evaluations implicitly
rely on vertical relationships. Encouragement however is always
positive, always encoura-ging the speaker to do better within a
horizontal relationship. In this training-learning all the participants will
practice encouraging their fellow learners. After each group of
speeches, before the whole class one of the other learners will give a
short encouragement speech to encourage each speaker to do even
better. These encouragement speeches will first be demonstrated by
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 your trainer/teacher/coach and should follow the following formula:
Note one thing that the speaker did really well and encourage the
speaker to keep on improving it; then note one aspect, one skill, that
(most) needs improvement and give the speaker an idea for how to
improve it or, if warranted, discourage something like keeping a hand in
a pocket while speaking and finally encourage and praise another skill
that the speaker did really well. Note: it is very important to focus on
only a few aspects of the speech, preferably from different aspects of
the speech and follow the formula G-GB-G ie Great, Get Better, Great.
When doing Encouragement we recommend breaking down speeches
into the five PASIO elements or the three SSS = Seen, Spoken and
Script when structuring your encourage-ment speeches. :
PASIO
Passion :- Attitude, Involvement of audience.
. Action:- Body language, eye talk, posture, movement on stage
Spoken:- Voice Projection, Vocal variety, Speed, Pauses
Intelligence:- Easily understandable, vocabulary
Organisation:- Structure, flow, use of props, PPPs

1b (i) SPEECH 1: INTRODUCING MY SPEAKING PARTNER

Skills Focus: Overcoming Nervousness, Script Organisation
This will be the only speech where you have to prepare your
speech and give it in the same session. For all the other speeches you’ll
be given the theme of the speech at the previous session so you are
expected to prepare and practice your speech before the session.

i) In any organization especially in any group of learners or people

working together, one of the first things to do is to make
introductions. In an established organization like a Toastmasters
International Speaking Club the first speech a new member has to
give is a self-introductory speech to introduce herself to the other
members. Here, because this is a special course where everyone is

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 new, everyone has to be introduced to each other, at the same time, at
the beginning of the course. Now, because it is often hard for a new
speaker to make a good introductory speech about themselves,
especially since it will be their first speech and they can be nervous
and shy, the whole group will be divided into pairs. and each person
will introduce their partner to the whole group, (if there is an odd
number of people in the group, then we will have one trio where ‘a’
will introduce ‘b’,’b’ will introduce ‘c’ and ‘c’ will introduce ‘a’.). So
the first step in this exercise is for you to form into pairs or your
coach can do that for you.
ii) Now, each person has to find out as much as they can about their
partner, namely some, but not necessarily all, of the following:
a. Their name, nickname, origin and meaning of their name,
famous people with the same name.
b. Where and when they were born, but ladies over 40 don’t have
to tell what year they were born in, just their birthday day &
month.
c. Distinguishng features (if favourable: eg, he’s very tall,
however he’s not a basketball player, he likes swimming more.).
d. Where they grew up, what schools and universities they went to
and what courses and training they’ve done.
e. Where they have worked in the past and who they are working
for now and what they are doing now.
f. Their family
g. Their hobbies, sports, interests in particular any previous public
speaking experience.
h. Interesting events that have happened in their life, places
they’ve visited, the best, worst, funniest, saddest things that
have ever happened to them;
i. What they want to do in the future, their motto in life and why
they want to learn how to speak in public,
Now select the most interesting information and arrange it into your speech.
iii) This speech will only be evaluated on five basic aspects, viz:
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 a. voice projection (project your voice as strongly as you can at
this stage but don’t shout),
b. flow and pauses (try to keep the flow going with good pauses
after important points) and
c. speed – remember take your time, no need to rush.
d. getting the name right: At the start of your introduction you
should enunciate the name of your partner loudly, slowly,
REALLY SLOWLY and clearly and if you want to everyone in
the group can also spell out the name of their partner using the
International Radio Operators Phonetic Alphabet which you
should all learn. I’ve put it in a box on the next page. Also at
the end of your introductory speech you should repeat your
partner’s name again at the conclusion of your speech. So at
the start you could say: Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to
introduce Ms Lovely from Mars, That is lima, Oscar, victot,
echo, lima. Yankee from Mars. you close, once again repeat
her name slowly thus . . please give Ms Lovely a super warm
welcome! Then start vigorous hand clapping as you hand over
to the next speaker and go and sit down;
e. script, structure ie organization, have a good OBC, Opening,
Body and Closure.
Alpha Foxtrot Kilo Papa Uniform
Bravo Golf Lima Quebec Victor
Charlie Hotel Mike Romeo Whisky
Delta India November Sierra X-ray
Echo Juliet Oscar Tango Yankee
Zulu
Fig XX: International Radio Operator’s Phonetic Code
This code is used to ensure there is no misunderstanding of a
spoken word or signal, so for example the plane with
registration FJP will be identified as Foxtrot, Juliet, Papa to
distinguish it from NGB whose letters sound similar.

iv) Now, in turn, each person must introduce their partner to the class.
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v) After each two pairs (ie after each 4 people) have introduced each
other, your coach will give an encouragement or coaching session for
those four learners to encourage each one of them to do better: Your
coach will use the G-GB-G formula noted above, namely Good-Get
Better-Good, so first he’ll note a Good skill, then a Get Better skill with
points on how to get better and finish with praise for another Good skill.
vi) You should make notes from the interview with your partner, but
you will not have time to write or revise a speech, try to make sure you
organize your notes well as in this speech you may need to refer to
them. You may have time to rewrite your notes into a cue card, where
you can write key words for all the important points. A cue card, which
can easily held in one hand, can be made by folding in half a 6in x 4in
or A6 filing card – then list the key information and key words on your
card starting from your opening gambit, or opening phrase, to get
attention, followed by your partner’s name, etc etc till at the end write
out a memorable closing statement. So you should write out your
opening and closing statements in full to help you get your wording
right but the rest of your speech notes are just key words that you might
need to refer to, to jog your memory, and they should all be hand
written because we remember, much better, things we write by hand,
Your coach, as your encourager, will be looking for the things
that you are doing really well and will encourage you to perform those
skills even better in future; your coach will also note one skill where
you need to put in more effort to improve it. Your coach will not be
listening hard to find mistakes so don’t worry about making mistakes,
just relax, believe you can do it and let your message flow.

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 Fig 3: Sketch – Introducing my Partner

1b (ii) Best Speech.Award.

The Best Speech Award is an optional part of the program, you can
include it or not; If you include Best Speech Awards for each speech in your
program, you should prepare and print certificates beforehand and give out
the certificates straight away as the winners are announced. Personally I
favour making these awards – they are one more way of stimulating
participants to do their best as a certificate can be taken home, put in a frame
and hung on the wall for all to see and take pride in which will encourage
them to keep on getting better, giving better & better speeches.
There are several ways of deciding the best speeches, the coach
can make the decision on his own.or a panel can make the decision,
however I recommend secret voting by all the participants to make the
decision: For Speech 1, An Introduction; Speech 4, A Mime: and
Speech 9, A Debate the students in the two best pairs or teams should
each receive a certificate. For the remaining 9 speeches I recommend
awarding certificates for: “ONE OF THE BEST
SPEECHES ON date “ at etc etc and presenting more
than one certificate at each session; If there are 15 or less participants 2
certificates should be awarded at each speech session, for 16 to 29
partipants, 3 certificates should be awarded and for 30 to 44, 4
certificates can be awarded for each speech session.(Note; To run this
course, there should be a minimum of 8 participants) After a participant
has won a certificate, he/she cannot win another certificate until all the
other participants have won one certificate and similarly after a
partipant has won two certificates he/she cannot win a third certificate
until all the other participants have each won two certificates. For each
session, 2.ballot counters must be appointed to distribute, collect and
count the ballots. Up to 15 participants, each participant has 2 votes, for
16 to 29, each has 3 votes and for 30 to 44, each has 4 votes. For 45 or
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 more participants there should be 2 classes, These rules are designed to
make sure that every participant wins at least one certificate.
The best speech sub-session should be organized well beforehand,
ballot papers and certificates should be on-hand before the session
starts, ballot counters, master of ceremonies or session co-ordinators
and timers should be appointed at the conclusion of the previous session
and such appointments should rotate through all the participants. A
Keeper of the Keys should also be appointed whose job it is to open up
the meeting room, see that the chairs are arranged and the equipment
eg., lighting, heating (if necessary) or a/c plus white board, flip chart,
board markers, projector for Power Point etc are all ready and running
with facilities like toilets unlocked at the start and also that they are
packed up and the meeting room is cleaned and locked up and the keys
returned after the meeting closes: Of course other participants should
also help the Keeper of the Keys: (Toastmasters calls the Keeper of the
Keys the Seargent-At-Arms).
If the meeting sessions are not catered for, especially in a voluntary
program, then one or more caterers should be appointed and funds arranged
or collected to pay for refreshments, water throughout the sessions plus tea
and coffee with fruit and snacks during a break in the session. , .

1c Notes for Speech 2: A Speech about Courage.

Skills Focus: Passion, Courage, Spoken - Projection &
Emotion_ Speaking in public requires courage, you have to
overcome your fears in order to speak in public: For this speech, you
can prepare an original speech about courage or about people
overcoming fear or you can use a speech by someone else who
overcame fear, for example many of the winners of the Nobel Peace
Prize overcame fear with their courage to do the things for which they
were awarded their Nobel Prize. Some people have even lost their lives
for having the courage to speak out about injustice in public like Martin
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Luther King speaking against racial discrimination in the USA and more
recently Ms Jo Cox fighting for women’s rights in the UK.Partiament. If
you want you can repeat famous speeches eg. by Abraham Lincoln or
Martin Luther King but you must rewrite the speech by hand to
remember it and practice speaking it several times with a friend to listen
to you and even use a smart phone to video you and then advise you
how to get more passion and emotion into your speech. Alternatively
you could make a self- video and self evaluate yourself.
So that’s the end of Session 1: now make sure the group appoints,
elects or selects your Meeting Co-ordinator, Ballot counters, Timers,
Keeper of the Keys and Caterers for your next session before you close
and go home.

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