tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70229933825773114212024-02-19T08:17:05.140+00:00Competent CommunicatorMy experiences storytelling and comedy; and studying others: some videos always in front for new visitors.Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.comBlogger605125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-25510494295370595222020-03-27T10:52:00.000+00:002020-03-26T08:12:44.019+00:003 May, end level 1 Pathways: Research<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/whW7Vt1IkYc" width="459"></iframe><br />
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Both Svetlana and Graham also members of witty Storytellers (not yet existed then) ----<br />
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Pathways is Toastmasters latest, future Education program, actually in Pilot phase<br />
It has 5 levels in each of its 10 path, but the first two are almost identical<br />
This speech was given after I studied the last project of level 1 : "Research"<br />
My research combined Pathways program and Transitions. We are in a transition period from the old eduction program, most of us use still, and the new one, used by some from the two Pilot districts.<br />
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I am now also in a club, from one of them.<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-15721994826437175712020-02-10T09:13:00.000+00:002020-02-10T09:19:55.107+00:00Mistaken Identity 'The possibilities are endless' video by Spark LondonHere is the Mistaken identity tale filmed from a lateral point of view by Spark London when I performed.<br />
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in the iframe so - even an ipad could see it. <br />
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AND somehow it is different when one listen to it,<br />
I think we could learn from each kind when we relisten or relook<br />
- and not only the evident English mistakes I made during the telling -<br />
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My body language, facial expression and even voice variety got better<br />
but I have still far to go! And I do not rush out (most of the time) after a performance.<br />
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I am most pleased that this serious message got well across and so much laugher too: it did decide me to learn about "how to make laugh with intention" not only by chance. At 2'7 the audience begun to laugh when I stripped, took out my tee-shirt, and they never stopped.<br />
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Sound track of the story I told at Canal Café Theatre<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-86266459603153301402020-02-09T06:58:00.000+00:002020-02-10T09:18:35.334+00:00True Tales - Julie Kertesz, Manchester Town Hall<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9-JHZKFzoHE" width="480"></iframe><br />
More audience, lots of energy, easier and not more difficult to perform,<br />
to tell my true tale of when I was 10 years old and the war caught up with me.<br />
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There were almost 500 in the huge town hall in Manchester that day.<br />
I had some difficulty to find a "good ending", a satisfying ending to a sad tale.<br />
Of course, "I am here to tell the tale" was already great, but I found a more touching end.<br />
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One can tell the same tale so many ways! There are all "true" but how you tell the story counts.<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-67423730598327407852018-10-31T07:12:00.000+00:002018-12-01T11:28:48.327+00:007' Gig at Comedy School as special guest<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iJELO-tu-KI?rel=0" width="640"></iframe><br />
November 2013 after a "refreshment workshop" with the Comedy School they invited me to perform at the showcase of new Standup Comedy students. <br />
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I opened the show, alas I was allowed only seven minutes from ten prepared. But of course, one has to adapt each time. <br />
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This year I had my ten minutes at "Old folks jokes" but I do not have yet its video recording. And now, 10' also opening at Ivor Dembina's 'you should have listened to Ivor'. Went very well, made those present laugh a lot. <br />
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<u>New tips to look for when you look at it the second time.</u><br />
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</b> <b>Listen to how I begin</b>.<br />
First recognising what everyone can see: I am old. (Later, that I am not English, that my mother language was Hungarian.)<br />
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It is good to recognise what they see and hear. Then of course comes the surprises. In my case proving that we old folks are "open minded", surprising those listening with 4 letter words.<br />
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Finally, "toping" by telling the tale about my daughter and she "not being there". That connects to all of us who ever did something because "he or she was not there".<br />
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"<b>Toping</b>" is adding to a punch line without necessity to introduce, it also gives it a more impromptu feeling. Like you just invented it, now for this audience. I top even more at the end.<br />
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Be aware that nor in Comedy or in Storytelling do you have to stick to the "exact truth" about time, names, durations, for example. It is very important to be "in the moment" - so my daughter really called me - but it was more then a year before (just before my first ever standup comedy performance), so what? I told it first the day it happened and then 77+ times as it was that morning.<br />
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It is not important when, and it make seem more "fresh".<br />
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And I still tell "I am 77" it seems a sexier year, easier to remember then 78 or 79 (or now, more).<br />
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<b>Observe how I finish.</b><br />
I segue with what come before, "I am a bit out of practice now, but" and 'top" again then give my most outrageous sentence of my performance. It work very well every time. Sometimes, I got even standing ovation for it. But then, I do not stop at that but top it and top it again, usually getting laughter after laughter for the end.<br />
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It is best to leave your best working part to the end, your second best at the beginning.<br />
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I found the sentence after six hours of workshop at Camden with Ivor Dembina, who probed deep into what is we do not tell usually because "that is what the audience is interested is enjoying best". I hesitated for three month until I first dare to try it out. It does work each time.<br />
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<b>Added to the routine </b>(It grows with new frustrations<b>)</b><br />
There are some added parts that were used the first in this performance, from frustrations I got just then before I performed this, about my teeth.<br />
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I also added the routine about my eyes (is it in this yet?) Later, I found a better way to introduce my Kindle (not in this performance yet). It does get a huge laughter as I talk about "Size is import - well, sometimes" and let the audience think first of something else, "I did not say it" as just before it I added a part that is about a message I got on Facebook. (See my later gigs for that).<br />
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<b>Observe how I go from one part to the other.</b><br />
Just before I performed I was told that I have to do <i>only 7 minutes not 10 </i>as I was promised. I had to cut some parts. Because the routine has been made in Parts, I could leave out some. But is is more difficult then. Usually I put a word at the end of a routine <i>to trigger in me and remind the next part</i>.<br />
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All audience is not as receptive as this was. Sometimes a part works better or less depending whom listens. That is normal, most important is all love and enjoy most of it.<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-65673222324446090032018-09-02T12:06:00.003+01:002018-09-02T12:06:10.015+01:00Will Ferrell Hilarious Acceptance Speech At The Mark Twain Comedy Award ...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/guc-8R1bYVg" width="480"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-32583800769220577442018-09-02T11:44:00.009+01:002018-09-02T11:44:57.459+01:00The Dean Martin Roasts at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.1978. Man of the ho...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TbVco2FFuxc" width="459"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-33822271547904229532018-01-06T10:11:00.001+00:002018-01-06T10:11:00.801+00:00Pathways experience: Why these post are the "most seen"?<a href="http://pathwaysexperience.blogspot.com/2018/01/why-these-post-are-most-seen.html?spref=bl">Pathways experience: Why these post are the "most seen"?</a>: Ok. The first one because of its title. " Old people can and does " already tells: not only young love web and can use and have ...<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-17063710047495762362017-11-17T22:43:00.000+00:002017-11-17T22:43:00.560+00:00Dananjaya H Body language: Zoom Screen View 10 Nov Royal Roads, Canada<div style="text-align: center;">
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Beside what I said there, at the Online Alliance special Pathways meeting, you can find in this video also a few bits from what others said. To publish more form them, have to ask each's permission. </div>
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Most of our clubs are Advanced, and it's members at least Dual. Some are in 8 clubs!</div>
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So between us we have Pathways Guides, Pathways Chief Ambassadors and Ambassadors, Path Proficient (finished a path already), and many already working in the Pathways program.</div>
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Today, it is the third time that suddenly I hear about a mind map software and even of Tony Buzan who did propose it the first time.</div>
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Paul also send me a mind map and pic with him.</div>
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And before Vic speaks, he does this kind of mind mapping about it, he told us about it tonight at Royal Roads online meeting. Noon for them, evening for me in London.</div>
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And here is his presentation so different, and at the same time following what he decided to do.<br />
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A good surprise for me this morning, to be not only given as example, but shown the interaction between us, that took place through the Zoom platform's Share Screen a few days ago. Yes, I told Vic to use as he wants, any part of it, but did not suspect this. </div>
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Great conference, well I found out only "conference preparation" and to me of course it seems even better with me on the wall... Haha. I loved not only his verve and arguments, but also the importance of telling stories, remembered and used also. Vic practicing, what he recommends.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-21600819714810538662017-10-23T11:17:00.000+01:002017-10-23T17:06:56.103+01:00From speaker to Trainer, from beginner to Pioneer.<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I begun this blog when I got my (second) CC, the first after 30 years of absence from Toastmasters clubs. I did practice my public speaking between the two in my professional life. You followed me from 2009 or you just arrived here today?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I learned, went into the Education Program as far as it is possible, got "distinguished toastmaster" once and the second time went to the Advanced communicator Gold, the highest communication award again. But I already knew by then the Manuals and felt the need to go ... Pathways. I did. Soon I will be one of the panelist's online.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In my online club, Witty Storytellers Online, we have some experienced "pathways pioneers" and also new in pathways: in all 65% of us already "in". Sudha Mani who designed this flyer, just begun 2 weeks ago Pathways and she is already finishing her "level 1" she become as passionate, as me. Or more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Pathways is a new Education Program in Toastmasters International, and it is introduced step by step, region by region. I succeeded to get on it end March 2017, almost 7 month ago and lived in it, lived through it, decided to help the transition from the Legacy Program to the new one as much as I could. All, that depended on me. That was my "vision" and decision, as I finished my first path : Visionary Communication. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In November, if I am still here and healthy enough, I will finish my second path, Presentation Mastery. The name we get when we finish a path is "proficient in". Well, we just begin, but for sure, in the 5 levels in each we do learn a lot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I begun a new blog: <a href="http://pathwaysexperience.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">P<b>athwaysExperience</b></a><b>,</b> and neglected a little this one, as I try to write day by day something new about how I experience the new educational program called Toastmasters Pathways and also progress in my Path. I have two other path I begun, so a lot more to learn and speak, soon. Their title, does not reflect as well as it should, in my opinion the content, but now I learned to look inside and chose after how the projects inside are different of the other paths. I will add also a link to it in this blog.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-3250501178469509412017-10-05T21:39:00.000+01:002017-10-26T21:44:08.231+01:00Some of Zoom Screen sharing offerings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='640' height='512' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwnmBOjt61Wz5t5tXduc2SUCI0HdnZMW7jgtUMNGY_KlgI9Dh5-i2rJnVLrUjDOzxFQCEO477KtsDb3u7Q4yg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">They added so many things to Zoom that I never tried out, and also to blogger from google!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Here, I tried to record only the Flickr screen and see what can I do with it through Zoom share screen.</div><div style="text-align: left;">In this video a short two minutes where I show my photos in different ways. This is just a test, but it could be really interesting and I could add and tell stories about them. So easy to do!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-68597474220951398942017-09-13T18:46:00.000+01:002017-09-30T20:10:30.510+01:00Gigging again!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Did not go out to gig, for some time.<br />
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I love the audience and their laughter and communicating with them, even for 5 minutes or 7, and after too. It still means a lot for me.<br />
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Plus, my routine always conveys something.<br />
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This occasion I could not resist "Who runs the world" a special charity event for abused women sake. I was one for a while. I know what it means to be afraid, even if it was long time ago.<br />
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Prepared a new routine, from old bits and added some new ones at the end, using what happened just now in United Kingdom. "In? Out?" I prefer, IN.<br />
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It is not perfect and I have more bits that I will not write down now, before the performance. I hope putting my routine upside down will work.<br />
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Cavendish arms are very strict on time, so I had to eliminate a lot.<br />
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The 8th July I have another gig where they give me a large 7 minutes. Of course, going down from 20 or 15 to 5 or 7 not easy.<br />
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I used for it first the new method I just learned from Doug Lipman: discover the MIT what is the most important thing for you now, in this club, this time. Then eliminate all that does not helps it. He reminded us, a second point only blurs the audience mind and distracts.<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-32687904950691800072017-09-08T10:30:00.000+01:002017-09-30T20:09:16.695+01:00Collages from Flickr photos<div style="text-align: center;">
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the program chose them from my photos flickr found the most interesting... why am I so many times on it? as with personal stories, people like a lot photographies telling of personal life too. And also some who provoke emotions in them, usually similar as I had when I had taken them.<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-91554054583039975942017-07-04T06:59:00.001+01:002017-07-04T06:59:44.597+01:00Pathways experience: Visionary Communication, my first path<a href="http://pathwaysexperience.blogspot.com/2017/07/visionary-communication-my-first-path.html?spref=bl">Pathways experience: Visionary Communication, my first path</a>: Here is the path I have been on for more then three month now. I almost stumbled on it by chance, but now, I am so happy of that! With...<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-67245304049966696152017-06-12T06:14:00.001+01:002017-06-12T08:13:21.696+01:00Pathways experience: new post<a href="http://pathwaysexperience.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-joys-of-answering-question-short.html?spref=bl">Pathways experience: The joys of answering a question, short</a>:<br />
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I was asked yesterday to answer - without preparation - to a question. The theme of the meeting was "teddy bears" so I had two t...<br />
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Videos and images, both tell different ways the same thing.<br />
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I think, they can complement each other.<br />
This is the blog I write now in day by day.<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-41377050395840393622017-06-05T06:59:00.001+01:002017-06-05T06:59:29.367+01:00Pathways experience: Blogging from age 70<a href="http://pathwaysexperience.blogspot.com/2017/06/blogging-from-age-70.html?spref=bl">Pathways experience: Blogging from age 70</a>: This is not my first blog. I begun, when blogspot was still in beta and we had to add HTML to obtain Bold or even a paragraph break. Still, ...<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-52957647207182700472017-05-30T08:41:00.001+01:002017-05-30T08:41:49.784+01:00Pastor Pam two wonderful stories : listen how she connects them<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/I_are_41z48" width="480"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-34600914747500217142017-05-26T17:28:00.001+01:002017-05-26T17:28:02.814+01:00Welcome To America with Gad Elmaleh and Ron Livingston<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/QWhJqvuB1ZA" width="480"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-1551536453958037042017-05-24T07:24:00.002+01:002017-05-24T07:24:43.675+01:00Two month ago begun my first PathIt seems so far now, but it really was only two month ago. I become member of the Great Communicators club, not far from where I lived once and my daughter still lives. And by this membership, I also become member of the district that is the second pilot for the Toastmasters International new educational program, now called Pathways.<br />
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A program more tailored to our needs but still having grows pains.<br />
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Had of course problems with its wrinkles, "you wanted to be an early adapter? those are the consequences!" someone wrote me when I complained. True, even if it did hurt when I heard it.<br />
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Once I went through, struggled through, finished my Icebreaker, Pathways style, I had to wait. Wait? I could not even read farther till my "Base Camp Manager" approved it!<br />
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Are we in elementary school?<br />
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Once I was through, I was delighted, and whatever happened on the way, did stay delighted. I love all what I learned in these two month. I love the new education it offered me. I love the new thoughts and opportunities.<br />
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I do love the new Pathways program.<br />
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If going from Level 1 once I finished all its tasks to Level 2 was again a problem, and also getting the certificate for that level, when I finished the second, I already "knew" and got through to have the certificate all by myself. As a big girl. I am now enjoying Level 3 with so many electives. I have to chose only two of them, I already did, but read through many others too.<br />
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I can also see better now how well constructed the path are. Read a few wonderful books. Offered some great stories. And some less great probably, too. Learned on the way.<br />
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But for details on that I opened my new blog <a href="http://pathwaysexperience.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Pathways Experience</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-58832849482057307072017-05-04T10:16:00.001+01:002017-05-23T10:43:54.274+01:00Pathways: A blog for Pathways? No, about my experience of it...I opened a new blog! It is Thursday 4th May 2017<br />
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I opened first, 2004 a blog about my life, in French, to prove there is life after 70. Did. For ten years, writing day by day, I build an audience about 200. But living in London, slowly I let it go, when you do not publish regular, you loose your audience.<br />
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Later, I published RetroBlog, translating all my diaries from age 10 to 70 into it. It is still there, but I stopped, realising I begun to write diary for exterior and not myself. There are two different needs and ways and I need that intimate contact with some other part of me.<br />
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Then, from 2010 this blog about my storytelling, then standup comedy, and I added whatever i found interesting about communication. Even a bit, but not much about my Online Club activities.<br />
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Today, a new blog is born: about the Toastmasters New Educational Program! About how I experience it, still very personal. Personal stories are my communication style...<br />
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Pathways: A blog for Pathways <a href="http://pathwaysexperience.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://pathwaysexperience.blogspot.co.uk</a>?<br />
No, about my experience of it..<br />
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I have been Pathways Ambassador for more then a year and went to my designated clubs to tell them: "REP is coming!" Spoke finally more of what was created by Smedlay and what was in CC manual. Very little could I tell yet about the actual new program!<br />
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Now, I can. And chose to open a blog about my <a href="http://pathwaysexperience.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Pathways Experience</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-47033122183268006122017-04-25T14:04:00.000+01:002019-09-28T14:24:33.405+01:00On Becoming a Stand-up Comedienne at 77 Years Young<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gmzh_qqV5ro" width="480"></iframe><br />
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I am not sure if I already have it in my blog?<br />
One of my preferred movies about me, lately<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">"do not put yourself into a box"</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">From the blog Competent Communicator by Julie Kertesz</div>Julie Kertesz - me - moi - jkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09196066571782981915noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7022993382577311421.post-3355111509465923842017-04-21T06:19:00.000+01:002020-02-10T09:16:59.798+00:00Mistaken identity? I begun to tell the story of how I changed profession late in life, 3 year ago, in the middle of the recession when too many were afraid to loose their job and find something new. <br />
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Each time, perhaps the "most important thing" can be not the same, for the same events, other parts of it came out. I begun speaking at that time of my life and relating how a book Hidden Identity, (with it's Hedonistic approach) helped me to find out what were my strongest points and what I really liked.<br />
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In 2010 November, I told it at the <b>Canal Cafe Theatre</b>. The theme of the evening organized by Spark London, was "<i>Mistaken identity</i>", Spark published my tale with the title:<br />
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Observation: "<i>cave</i>" in French is "cellar" in English but I have <i>mistaken it that day, </i>my daughter lived in some kind of basement... not a real "cave" an old vine cellar in the middle of a garden. But it was really a trap door (with window on it) that was the only entrance and gave the only natural light.</div>
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But, my error just brought up more laughter from the audience...</div>
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And at the end of the evening, a young woman came to me, telling me how much my message meant to her, it was the encouragment she needed at that point of her life.<br />
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It changed, evolved, and I think, the change itself is interesting.<br />
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That was not the first time, it was perhaps the third time, as delivered it almost a year before in one of my Toastmasters club.<br />
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That story is very dear to me also as it was the first time I got so many laughter and someone told me "You are a natural" go learn standup comedy. Standup? What is that? The rest is history...<br />
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From this on, I told the story two more time correcting cave and changing a little, as I do not learn word by word. Now, I got a new view and assessment to that story and will try to tell it next week, with a new focus: Yes! I will do it. More, when I have done it.<br />
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