Power Talkers is an Advanced Toastmasters Club, for Toastmasters who have achieved their CTM or higher. As such, it functions slightly differently than a normal Toastmasters Club. Meetings are held only once a month, and do not include Table Topics. Two speeches are usually scheduled, though there may be only one or there may be three. Speeches are often longer ones that would be difficult to fit into regular club meeting time limits. But the major difference is the round-robin evaluation session that follows each speech, as all members give brief evaluations, followed by a longer evaluation based on the manual's evaluation form by an assigned evaluator.

Power Talkers meets once a month on the 2nd Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Adjournment is dependent upon the length of the speech(es) presented, but no later than Noon.

Several of our members are also members of the Santa Fe Parliamentary Unit of the National Association of Parliamentarians, which following a lunch break has their monthly meeting the same day and place from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Rosemont Assisted Living Community

2961 Galisteo Street (that's south of Rodeo Rd.)
Santa Fe, New Mexico
in the second floor Community Room.

In October 1924, a group of men assembled by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley met in the basement of the YMCA in Santa Ana, California, U.S.A., forming a club “to afford practice and training in the art of public speaking and in presiding over meetings, and to promote sociability and good fellowship among its members.” The group took the name “Toastmasters.”  We are a local chapter of Toastmasters International.

Today, Toastmasters International is a non-profit organization which gives its members the opportunity to develop and improve their public speaking abilities through local club meetings, training seminars and speech contests. Toastmasters International includes more than 199,000 men and women in more than 9,300 clubs in more than 70 countries. 

Experienced professionals and beginning speakers alike can benefit from our practical, face-to-face learning program. Whether you're speaking to the board of directors, your customers, your co-workers or your kids, Toastmasters can help you do it better. You'll learn and practice in a friendly, comfortable environment with people who are there for the same reason you are—to become better communicators.

At Toastmasters, members learn by speaking to groups and working with others in a supportive environment. A typical Toastmasters club is made up of 20 to 30 people who meet once a week for about an hour. Each meeting gives everyone an opportunity to practice conducting meetings, giving impromptu speeches, presenting prepared speeches, and offering constructive evaluation.