TOC Host Effective Communication Workshop

The Winter 2001 TOC Effective Communication Workshop took place February 2-4. Taught by William Thomas, Susan McCloskey, and David Kelley, the intensive workshop allowed the participants to sharpen their skills at public speaking and at organizing and presenting Objectivist ideas. The participants on this occasion were Tal Ben-Shachar, an organizational psychologist and self-esteem theorist pursuing his Ph.D. at Harvard University; architect and regular summer seminar speaker John Gillis; Ira Kostman, who is seeking a Ph.D. in organizational behavior at the City University of New York; Arizona-based prosecutor and Objectivist group leader William Perry; and NASA engineer and Objectivist activist Luther Setzer. Echoing the sentiments of his fellows, Setzer summed up his experience in the workshop with glowing praise: "I've attended Toastmasters [a public-speaking club] for two years, and I was stunned by the utility of this weekend's material!" John Gillis found the workshop "superbly organized and very effective." The ECW is offered semi-annually; look in these pages and on our Web site for news of the next one.

At the February Effective Communication Workshop were: (back row, left to right) John Gillis, Luther Setzer, William Thomas; (front row, left ro right) David Kelley, Tal Ben-Shachar, William Perry, and Susan McCloskey. Not pictured is Ira Kostman