Summitting Session – Carlo Wolff, ACB & CL on “Creating the Best Club Climate”

Table Topics Master – Marco Meng, CC & CL

Speeches
* Spike Gu, ACB & CL with “The Patriot” from the storytelling manual
* Guest speaker Helen Zhang, ACB & CL of Amazing Fridays with “It’s Now.” from the humorously speaking manual
* Emily Minor, CC & CL with “Couchsurfing: Changing the World One Couch at a Time” from the speaking to inform manual

General Evaluator – Joyce Hu, CC & CL

Individual Evaluator – Susan Zhou, DTM
Date: 2009-09-10

Some highlights:

- Marco Meng presenting “Find Your Voice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs”
- Syna Ruan presenting “A Group of 99″
- Dan Smith delivering the first half of The Moment of Truth

You’ll love it.

A bit after 7pm at Baileman (near Jing’an) – here is CAT’s agenda for 24 July. See you there.

Last night we had a dynamic meeting including our club officer elections.  Let me highlight a few parts of the meetings.

Delphy gave an excellent training on how to take the terror out of speaking.  It was good to be reminded of the simple, but profound techniques for controlling anxiety.  She started with a focus on the body–posture, breathing and stretching.  Then she guided us to focus our minds on the objectives of the speech and away from “what will people think of me?”  If you are a dual member and need a trainer for your other club, I highly recommend scheduling Delphy!

Emily gave her HPLP final presentation.  If you do not know, she created a “Pawbook”for the CAT.  In essence, she has captured all of our processes and procedures into a handbook for the purpose of bringing clarity to our practices and as a means to orient and train members.  The HPLP is a milestone in the TM journey and it was exciting to be there and see Emily cross this line.  Please congratulate her.

All of the other speakers and evaluators did an excellent job.  Syna gave a humorous speech about what it means to be a woman, Joyce is mastering the Right Brain Evaluation, Mark Shaw lead a dynamic Table Topics session, and thanks to Jenny Ni we kept an on-time meeting.  Finally, we had two guests who where both very capable speakers, even though they are not TM members.  I suspect they will be soon.

One of the most important ceremonies we have each year is the election.  The election is when the club speaks and chooses its leaders.  It is my honor to introduce the CAT Exco 2008-2009.  We will have an induction ceremony for them in an up coming meeting.  I have full confidence in the continued development of the CAT under the capable leadership of the new CAT Exco!  I want to especially welcome Spike and Marco to the team, and thank Bill Wang for his year of service as the SAA, he will be serving as the President of the MSD club, congratulations.   Lastly, allow me to communicate my confidence in Emily as the new President!

President: Emily Minor, CC & CL
VP Education: Daniel Smith, DTM
VP Membership: Joyce Hu, CC
VP Public Relations: Spike Gu, CC
Secretary: TBA
Treasurer: Marco Meng, CC
Sergeant  at Arms:  Delphy Chow, ATMB & CL
Immediate Past President: Samuel Jones, DTM

Cheers,

Sam Jones, DTM

CAT President