Welcome to
District 36 Toastmasters
in the National Capital Area!
Our non-profit organization offers a
proven and enjoyable way to practice communication and
leadership skills. Here’s how it works:
 A
Toastmasters meeting is a learn-by-doing
session! Participants practice their speaking and leadership
skills in a friendly supportive atmosphere. Typically, a
club has 20 members who meet weekly or biweekly to practice
public speaking techniques.
A series of 10 self-paced
speaking assignments help members learn
communication skills. These assignments are
designed to instill a basic foundation in public speaking
including the use of humor, gestures, eye contact, speech
organization and overall delivery. 
We give our members
responsibilities and ask them to
lead - no lectures here! By taking on various
meeting roles and serving as officers at the club and
district levels members learn important and transferable
leadership skills.
There is no
instructor in a Toastmasters meeting. Instead,
members evaluate one another’s presentations. This
feedback process is a key part of the program’s
success. Meeting participants also give impromptu talks,
conduct meetings, and learn rules related to timing, grammar
and parliamentary procedure.
Many local corporations sponsor
in-house Toastmasters clubs. Toastmasters groups also
can be found in governmental agencies, as well as in a
variety of community organizations, universities, hospitals,
military bases, prisons, and churches. Toastmasters is an
effective, cost-efficient means of meeting their
communication training needs. Interested? Visit
a group near you!
YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND IN TOASTMASTERS
is more than just the District’s theme for 2009-2010:
it reflects the fact that Toastmasters is an organization
that emphasizes mutual support, camaraderie, and friendship,
all while we are working to achieve our own personal goals.
If you are a member of a Toastmasters Club, then you know
for a fact that your are among friends who are cheering for
you at every step of your journey; if you are not a member
yet, you almost certainly have a friend who is already part
of the Toastmasters family, and that person would love to
have you be a part of our program. This is our guarantee: as
a part of one of the worlds most supportive educational
organization, you will find yourself among friends, and you
will have fun while achieving your communication and
leadership goals!
Jim
Dooley, DTM
District 36 Governor, 2009-2010
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CLUB DIRECTORIES