7th day – 24 June
The last day as a group together and my first day I skipped the Yoga lesson :-( in the morning as I still was not packed and some administration needed to be done.
After our Check-In every team presented (non competition …) their team story and it was amazing to see how much we had absorbed in this week e.g in respect of dialogue architecture. Very interesting thoughts were presented and I could get a sense how much individual teams have already identified themselves with their teams and even more so with their projects in the field. This of course is also the case with us and so we presented our story in four chapters and each of us had his/her go including the individual aspirations in respect of the very individual and personal leadership vision which we shared with the rest of the group.
Finally we saw the Ulysses-Story-Movie again with this wonderful music from Enigma and said good-bye to each other in a final circle. I felt very honoured to be part of the program. From the organizations team we received their best wishes and a golf-ball signed by each of the coaches and the Ulysses team as a symbol. This referred back to the movie-trailer which we had discussed earlier during the week where a golf pro who had lost his confidence and also his swing with the help of a coach finally found his field and the perfect swing – It is all about leadership we were told and were asked to now go out into the field and to practice our ‘swing’….
I would never have believed that 19 people could bond so quickly, be so open and trusting, and share so much. It really has been a quite extraordinary week which I have also fed back to Ralf.
Then immediately after very brief lunch we headed to Beijing, had a brief tour to the Forbidden City where fortunately the old customs to behead every person on the spot who is not from the emperor’s family has come out of fashion so we moved on ….
Due to a sand storm combined with some rain in Beijing we were advised to early go to the airport and so followed that advice which we did at the cost of the Tienamen-Square
We boarded at 9pm Beijing time and flew with one stop in Dehli to Addis Ababa where we landed at 7 am local time (CET +1) – We were very much looking forward to being in Ethiopia and getting started on our project.
Here ends this story - the story of the Ulysses foundation week – but … the Ethiopian one only now begins! - stay with me !
more photos are available at: http://picasaweb.google.com/Guenter.Blog/7thDay24June
After our Check-In every team presented (non competition …) their team story and it was amazing to see how much we had absorbed in this week e.g in respect of dialogue architecture. Very interesting thoughts were presented and I could get a sense how much individual teams have already identified themselves with their teams and even more so with their projects in the field. This of course is also the case with us and so we presented our story in four chapters and each of us had his/her go including the individual aspirations in respect of the very individual and personal leadership vision which we shared with the rest of the group.
Finally we saw the Ulysses-Story-Movie again with this wonderful music from Enigma and said good-bye to each other in a final circle. I felt very honoured to be part of the program. From the organizations team we received their best wishes and a golf-ball signed by each of the coaches and the Ulysses team as a symbol. This referred back to the movie-trailer which we had discussed earlier during the week where a golf pro who had lost his confidence and also his swing with the help of a coach finally found his field and the perfect swing – It is all about leadership we were told and were asked to now go out into the field and to practice our ‘swing’….
I would never have believed that 19 people could bond so quickly, be so open and trusting, and share so much. It really has been a quite extraordinary week which I have also fed back to Ralf.
Then immediately after very brief lunch we headed to Beijing, had a brief tour to the Forbidden City where fortunately the old customs to behead every person on the spot who is not from the emperor’s family has come out of fashion so we moved on ….
Due to a sand storm combined with some rain in Beijing we were advised to early go to the airport and so followed that advice which we did at the cost of the Tienamen-Square
We boarded at 9pm Beijing time and flew with one stop in Dehli to Addis Ababa where we landed at 7 am local time (CET +1) – We were very much looking forward to being in Ethiopia and getting started on our project.
Here ends this story - the story of the Ulysses foundation week – but … the Ethiopian one only now begins! - stay with me !
more photos are available at: http://picasaweb.google.com/Guenter.Blog/7thDay24June
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