Field Journal
team retreat: reflections and planning tastes better with marshmallow s’mores
team retreat: reflections and planning tastes better with marshmallow s’mores
Liked a worried mother hen, I counted heads as the team climbed into the public bus, off to our retreat in the Andean countryside – the smoking Cotopaxi Volcano warnings be damned. Two days of togetherness to collect our reflections from the pilot last fall, and...
Can’t believe we’ve just closed out the year….And what year it’s been. I occasionally keep a journal, and last year’s January 1 entry read, “Ok, I think this is the year to really make this happen.” But in that moment there still wasn’t anything yet – a single dollar in the ...
“Now we’re going to do a little exercise,” Ariel stands in the center of the small room, we sit shoulder to shoulder in a tight circle, the second day of on-boarding for the 11 new Vida Plena community facilitators.
“Imagine you are about to head out on a long trip, one ...
I sit alongside Maria, piles of colorful beads strewn out on the table before us. Looking through the glass window, I catch glimpses of the Andean volcano, Taita Imbabura – “Mother Imbabura” in Ecuadorian Kichwa. Slowly, in the space of hours and days spent together over ...