I feel like...

How leadership was born...:)

I am now at home in Slovakia after 1^st day of work at my fathers company, enjoying calm evening, trying to capture everything what happened in last 2 intense weeks…

I went to NALDS- to a conference that 4 years ago changed my life.. I m not sure if without NALDS 2005 I would do what I did, would be where I was… It showed me the direction I wanted to take, the things that were important to me the passions I wanted to fight for..

So I decided after 4 years come back and support the same life-changing experience to other young people and applied for facilitator at NALDS 2009…

Then it happened that on 4^th November I suddenly appeared in a huge conference team of around 25 people starting long pre-meeting of 5 days to prepare the 6days conference of deep self-reflection for delegates from all over the world...

NALDS conference team at official dinner

For me NALDS was full of inspirations, emotions, effort put in small things that finally created such an amazing big picture that just made so much sense!

.. just how we decorated our room - creating a special, maximally comfortable environment… putting around colorful curtains, blankets, preparing every flipchart with water colours, using colourful moderation card.. (was really something for my creative heart ;)… and something totally different after being used to have 1 flipchart and 2 markers of 2 different colours- if I was lucky - in my past MC;) ).

..our Dreaming Room..

And then it really started..

..we met our homegroup- China, Germany, Greece, Estonia, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Romania, Ukraine- that were the nationalities that were in our homegroup.. different personalities, perceptions, emotions… really different flavours ;)…and each of them very very special..

Infinicakers!

First days were pretty cool we had a lot of fun, and everything seemed to be great.. after 2^nd day when we met in faci room and almost all facis shared how their delegates cried and how it was deep and cool etc.. we looked at us with Moritz (my co faci).. well our delegates didn’t cry..but they had a lot of fun... is the measure of success “a crying delegate” .. or..was it really so shallow? Or we just have another personalities in our group?.. did we dig deep.. these were the questions that were running over an dover again in our heads..

I cannot say I wanted to see our people crying- I just wanted them to show feelings, emotions, to be themselves as they are… let them JUST BE….and that was truly missing in our home-group that time..

In next day when Hana opened topic of “my biggest fear” we opened this topic in the group.. and we digged deep.. suddenly it became really sincere and emotional, everybody talking about their biggest fear, confusions.. so the ice broke.. . At this point it became very strong moment when just the things started to move and we went deeper and deeper in each one of the personalities of “our kids”..

We said at the end that we were like “parents” for our homegroup- set the direction for our kids- let them play, let them share, let them reflect…sometimes share our point of view, sometimes let them speak, sometime be strict, sometimes be loose..

In one moment after sharing our visions and what we want to do with our strengths and passions in our lifes, what kind of impact we wanna create I was totally impressed by our delegates, by their ambitions, their thoughts by such a progress done just in several days.. Cause everything they told us was just them- sincere true and committed…

In that moment I just heard myself saying ….Smiling, being proud…: “I just feel that.... Leadership was just born in this room”

And at the end.. when I saw how much we can change in people only in several days I just thought:

“this is it.. this is what I live for.. this is what makes me happy, excited, passionate....”…

I just realized it was the same that I realized in NALDS 2005..and then started to happen big things…

Now after 4 years..

I expect even more..

I have a DREAM………..;)