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Catherine Aygen
Consultante Formatrice & Coach en Prise de Parole en Anglais | Dirigeante d’A Star Formation (Qualiopi) | Top 3 européen de discours improvisé | Appli IA d’analyse de discours
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May 12, 2025
Peu avant la pandémie , je me suis inscrite à Toastmasters Sophia-Antipolis Ce week-end, j'ai eu le grand plaisir d'assister à ma première convention internationale et de participer à la finale du concours de discours improvisés en anglais, contre des concurrents venus de France, de Belgique, du Luxembourg et des Pays-Bas. (Si vous vous demandez en quoi cela consiste exactement - on monte sur la scène, un sujet est donné, on a environ 15 secondes de réflexion, et ensuite on a 2min29secondes maximum pour faire un discours à la fois drôle, intéressant et bien structuré 😅) Pour une raison obscure, j'adore les discours improvisés : c'est l'occasion d'être créatif et c’est fun ! (En même temps, c’est extrêmement stressant) Je voudrais dire un grand merci à mon club, en particulier à Wendy Buckley, qui nous soutient tous les jours, et féliciter Brenda DIAKITE 🪄 de Eloquence Nice Toastmasters, qui a remporté la deuxième place au concours de discours improvisés en français 👏 If you’re wondering, I’m very happy to say I took 3rd place 😁
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Pippa Maile
Owner Elysfx & The Relocation Hub
5 months ago
well done babes that amazing !!!!
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Federico Pisanu
Learning and Development consultant | Public Speaking Champion | Ex NATO Civilian Officer
5 months ago
Loved your #speech Catherine! Authentic and personal even with no preparation and definitely a good contact with the audience! Well done 🙏
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Shai Akram
Designer | Researcher | Exploring Craft-Industry Collaboration, Sustainability & Equity
5 months ago
BRAVO you!!!!!
Last week I had one of the scariest experiences of my life. I was flying back from Amsterdam to Nice after the Toastmasters international conference. Everything was as usual, until the pilot announced, “We’re going back to Amsterdam.” Everyone in the plane groaned. But then he added, “There’s an electrical fault which has affected the brakes and we don’t know if the back up braking system has been affected or not. We need to go back to Amsterdam to land on the longest runway possible. The crew will now prepare you for an emergency landing in 30 minutes.” The worst thing was that I could hear in the pilot’s voice that he was stressed. I looked at the crew’s faces and although they were calm, their faces showed that they were scared. The next 30 minutes were spent practising the brace position, removing all jewellery, glasses, tightening our seatbelts, learning how to open the emergency doors. We were told to study the safety card, which everyone did more intently than ever before! And like most of the other people on the plane, I was quietly worrying that we’d crash at the end of the runway and perhaps this was how I was going to die. We landed in brace position, with the crew shouting “brace for landing”. Luckily the emergency brakes worked 😅 If you’re expecting me to tell you that I have now changed my life for the better and I’m giving everything up to become a life coach… …I’m not 😆 I did say to myself, “Only trains from now on”, but I still had to get home and that involved two flights the next day. What I did realise was sometimes you have to give up control and put yourself in the hands of people who are trained for this. Also that after we landed, all the passengers were talking to each other, everyone was friendly and helpful. And when I saw some of my fellow passengers the next day, it’s like we were friends, bonded by this experience. And that made me think, why can’t we always create these human connections, even when we’re not in such an emotionally charged situation? So that is my resolution from this experience: make more human connections with everyone around me. (Photo taken from my flight home the next day: I’ve never been so happy to see the Îles Lerins 😁)
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