Welcome!

Welcome to HAU Athens Toastmasters! We help you overcome your public speaking anxiety, improve your presentation skills, run better meetings, give and receive constructive feedback, practice your English and be a better listener and leader.

The HAU Athens Toastmasters club will be in summer recess during August 2010.

At Toastmasters we have no teaching nor instructors. There are only people like you who improve their skills through practice in a friendly, fun and supportive environment; an environment that we foster together by helping each other. Think of Toastmasters as a laboratory where you can safely try out your leadership & presentation skills (and receive constructive feedback) before you exercise them in your personal and professional life!

Toastmasters International is a world-wide community of 10,000 clubs and 200,000 members in 90 countries. The first club was founded in 1924 in California.

The first Toastmasters club in Greece was founded in 2005 with the support of the Hellenic American Union; it is both a corporate and a community club. We meet twice a month at the HAU premises in Kolonaki. Our members mostly include young professionals as well as students and retirees. You are welcome to join us at one of our meetings! (it is not necessary to be a member of HAU; most of us are not)

Mo visits from America

We held an extra meeting on June 30th to welcome Mo Hamilton DTM, a visiting Toastmaster from the US. Here are a couple of photos:

Mo Hamilton with the latest Toastmasters magazine in hand, on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

We knew Mo was coming to Athens on a Tour from the US. As a fellow Toastmaster, DTM and Lt Governor Marketing of District 27, she had requested to attend one of our Toastmaster meetings. We were concerned how she would find her way through the busy Athenian traffic to where meetings are held. Detailed directions were offered, phone numbers of who to contact in case she needed any help were exchanged, and we crossed our fingers she would find it ok. Little did we know what was to follow. As Mo stepped out of the plane upon arrival in Athens and passed through Exit, she was greeted by her Tour Supervisor who is none other than Christiane Pohl, our club's newly elected VP Public Relations Officer! What are the chances that Mo would be met and escorted to the same meeting by one of 4 million people living in Athens who is also attending the same meeting? Am sure Mo has a lucky star over her.