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...
![Thank you for being our community](https://vidaplena.global/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PXL_20221216_011453715-scaled-e1674337734199-400x284.jpg)
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 ...
![Reflections from the the first days of facilitator training](https://vidaplena.global/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/TrainingDay_MarkFox-5692-400x284.jpg)
“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 ...
![OUR STORY](https://vidaplena.global/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMG_8631-400x284.jpg)
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 ...