Reflections on your path: suggestions from the Project

At the end of each path, I am almost sure, there is a last project before we leave it, called 

Reflections on your Path.

In this project, we learn to reflect on and describe our unique experience of moving through the path, and share how your learning has affected our life in and outside of TM.

Reflect on our growth during the completion of an entire path.

At a club meeting, present a 10-12' speech, share your experience completing your path. Today!

Use it as an opportunity to reflect on how far I have come, the skills learned and celebrate. 

The speech can be humorous, informational, or any style that supports your speech content.

• Describe your experience moving through a path, in detail. Would never finish, if did this.

• Share how the learning has impacted your life outside of Toastmasters. Do I have one ?

• Compose a well-organized speech. Demonstrate strong public speaking skills. 

What you learned while completing this path?

It might be helpful to use a technique like stream of consciousness. Write down everything that comes into your mind and remove items that do not apply when you finish. I do like this method.

This four points, very important and they go together indeed. 

• The advice you would give to a new Toastmaster

• How you would help someone who is just starting their first path

• The obstacles you faced and how you overcame these obstacles

The advice I will give, depends on the obstacles, me and those who begun almost the same time as me had to overcome and how we did help each other

Look back at the feedback you received as you progressed through your path. define the impact of the learning on your life.

Use the following exercises to help you reflect on your journey.

Journal/ or a Letter to Yourself/ or a Timeline or Stream of consciousness; Draw a timeline of when you started your Toastmasters journey, major events and experiences on the timeline, and your accomplishments along the way.

Then, develop a plan to continue your progress! of course, already done it!

Let your accomplishments be your starting point instead of a culmination. 

By building on what you have learned and looking for opportunities to share your new knowledge, you add to your expertise and benefit the people around you. Will try.

Electives at level 5 to chose from

As you see, again, we have many choices for the elective project. The  non elective was for me more difficult, to chose a personal vision, to plan goals, give timeline. Firstly, my first vision, even if I found it already at the end of level 1 was not depending on me, and had to decide to do what does depend on me and I am doing it. Second, I usually do not write down my goals in detail...

The elective for me was easy: I really wanted to learn about how to Moderate a Panel discussion, and beside all the useful material I found in the Project, I also read a great book on Kindle about it.

As it stands, already two Panels I moderated, each had its ups and downs, but I will not stop.

I left, Prepare to speak professionally (in "real word" already done it a few times and was paid) to the next path level 5, which is all about preparing to it. In some path other electives come in too.

As we advance in levels, the length of preparing for the project gets longer, the task ask more of us.

Level 3 and 4 were my preferred levels

At level three, we do have a required project, not so easy but interesting and useful, and in plus, 15 project from which we can chose two to complete. You do not have any more to look over the fence, it felt to me I was there, in! Enjoying them, one by one.

I wanted to do them all!

We can read and then decide, which we do now in this path, which later. But we can also download all those projects and read or not later!

And it seems, more projects to chose will come !

At level 4 we have one required project and 1 other to chose between interesting but a lot longer one's. That is when I learned Managing Panel Discussions, well begun to learn and do them.