TRAINING

MAD's Member Training program is designed to help you develop your debating and public speaking skills, whatever your public speaking ability. On most nights, streamed workshops are offered, ensuring that you can access the training that suits your needs.

Training sessions are led by MAD's own champion debaters, many of whom have extensive experience coaching debating across the world.

Sessions occur primarily on Monday and Wednesday nights, both of which include the opportunity to participate in practice debates.

Monday night training sessions are the core MAD activity. These sessions cover the fundamental skills of debating, from the secrets to persuasive speaking to strategies and tactics to help build winning cases. Pizza is provided on Monday nights!

Wednesday night training sessions are new for this year and will focus on developing the 'matter' or knowledge that you need in order to debate by teaching the 'first principles' of debating.

We look forward to seeing you on Monday and/or Wednesday night! If you have any questions, please e-mail Finlay Gustus at . You can also download the official MAD Training Handbook here.