Friday, October 23, 2009

The Magic Formula

Bring together woman who are seeking; looking for meaning, wanting to develop themselves and who have conviction for for helping others. Provide a safe space; the ability to recognize personal value and strength. They will discover the threads that connect them as woman and will form a community of support, where they are able to collaborate and make an impact!

The Rijeka Leadership Team

Our first workshop. The vision has now taken form. Tangible results--real action, discovery and has taken shape and has found its way into the hearts of 13 brave woman!
Jadranka, Tatjana, Maya, Blanka, Snjezana, Ana, Maya, Ivana, Vlasta, Gordana, Ivanka, Jelena, Vedrana, and assit's/trainers Dusica, Jill and Natasa.

Brave woman because they took risks. We spoke of emotional intelligence sharing our vulnerabilities, of indirect aggression acknowledging how we underhandedly harm each other as woman..

The introduction of Indirect Aggression left us speechless. Little by little ( malo po malo) each woman spoke of her experience. I must admit it was a challenge to monitor what was going on--the room roared with conversation. A GOOD sign

At the conclusion of the two days we reviewed each area of development. We spoke about what we valued in leaders and identified how our values are directly connected. We reviewed how to best use our emotions and what we must not engage in--gossip, shame, blame and discrediting other woman--to name a few if we were truly to build a community.

Each woman shared her vision--what it looks like, identifying the feeling and seeing the impact.

Currently
They discovered that the main concern is woman's employment. Together they will form an initiative. EU has project funds available for this. Two unemployed--an engineer and kindergarten teacher, three young lawyers and a wonderful lady who works at the unemployment ofc whose vision it is for every woman to have a job--form a dynamic team

The others are engaged in promoting organization and the next workshops!

Closing--With knowledge comes responsibility and initiative.

Sve es dobro--everything is good....

1 comment:

  1. Very informative. I was hoping for a new blog entry to see how things were going.

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