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Welcome to District 101 Toastmasters!

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District 101 opened its doors on July 1, 2016 to serve the area from Mountain View to King City, including Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito counties and most of Santa Clara county – we call it “Silicon to Surf”.

Message from the District Director

Experience the Value badgeValue is the most important benefit we can offer our members, and it’s our members that make Toastmasters so valuable. It’s unique among communication and leadership development organizations because we’re all members, working together to help each other grow and become more self-confident.

This year our District theme is experience the value. Experience is both a verb and a noun. It’s when we get involved (experience as a verb) that we benefit and thrive (experience as a noun). As the skills and self-confidence we gain from being a Toastmaster begin to impact everything we do, after a while we also come to value the experience of being a Toastmaster. My hope for our District this year is that every member will get involved in a new way, and experience the value that results from stretching ourselves and learning something new.

We all joined Toastmasters for different reasons, but as we journey together as a community of learners, encouraging others to dream, we discover that we’ve flourished ourselves. On this journey, we create opportunities for others to experience the value that Toastmasters has to offer and we discover that as we do, we also experience the value ourselves.

Dave Spence, District Director

Why I Joined Toastmasters

Why I Joined Toastmasters

             District 101 and the PR Department are collecting short stories based on a quarterly theme to publish on our blog. We want to give people the opportunity to easily share their stories. This quarter's theme is "Why Did You Join Toastmasters?"              ...

Leadership Luncheon 2024

Leadership Luncheon 2024

Leadership Luncheon 2024 by Raji Bandanapudi, DTM   The recent District 101 Leadership Luncheon exemplified our dedication to growth and development. Held to honor the outgoing leadership team and commend outstanding achievers from the past year, the event...


District 101 Toastmasters
District 101 ToastmastersJanuary 31, 2021 8:32am
Learn "how to write a speech in 10 minutes" at a workshop on Feb 2nd. Register at: https://d101tm.wufoo.com/forms/d101-tli-series-2021/ #toastmastersinternational
District 101 Toastmasters
District 101 ToastmastersJanuary 30, 2021 4:27pm
Get tips on increasing your professional network using linkedin and Toastmasters from this latest blog https://d101tm.org/getting-the-most-out-of-toastmasters-using-linkedin-part-2-of-2/ #toastmastersinternational #networking
District 101 Toastmasters
District 101 ToastmastersJanuary 28, 2021 2:52pm
Gearing up for Speech contest. Attend the workshop on Jan 30th to learn "How to Run a Successful Online Speech Contest". Register at https://d101tm.wufoo.com/forms/d101-tli-series-2021/ #toastmastersinternational
District 101 Toastmasters
District 101 ToastmastersJanuary 26, 2021 8:49pm
Check out the latest blog on "A recipe for an Impressive Speech" https://d101tm.org/mayuko-satos-recipe-for-an-impressive-speech/ #toastmastersinternational
District 101 Toastmasters
District 101 ToastmastersJanuary 25, 2021 3:57am
Pathways has been around for few years. Read this latest blog "Pathways: Skeptic to Convert" https://d101tm.org/pathways-skeptic-to-convert/ to learn why it's right time to embrace Pathways #toastmastersinternational #publicspeaking