2 more international conferences to attend by summer!

Yeap,

keeping the track to attend one (inter)national AIESEC conference every month by summer 2008, there are still 2 more in the pool.

Being invited by Yavor (Swiss NTT member), beginning April I am going to Switzerland to train the TtT track at DISCOVERY 2008 (http://discovery2008.ch).
Already having my ticket to ride and am pretty much looking forward to the country of (not only) violet cows :)

As has Lenka already mentioned, both of us have been selected for faci team for International Trainers Congress (ITC 2008) happening in May in Kiev, Ukraine (http://www.itc2008.in.ua)
Unfortunately Lenka will not participate so to bring the Czech spirit into the faci team is just up to me ;)
As part of the virtual get-2-know with facis, here I share my pretty quick intro video with you, too.
Have fun (and "push the button ;))

3 LTCs within 3 days! (crazy life of NTT)

Ok, when you say YES to something, you say NO something else!

In this case it was the crazieeest YES I have ever said and I enjoyed my special travelling around the country quite a lot, actually.

Imagine, my destination was to reach Opava, my homecity, on Sun 16.
Leaving Prague on Fri 14... and "on the way to home" I stopped for 3 different tasks at 3 different LTCs.

Itinerary of my weekend Mar 14-16:

Friday:
Prague - dep. 9:53am (train)
Prudká u Brna - arr. 1:56pm (after going by 2 trains together with Jaro :-P)
..
LTC of LC Brno:
getting to know + teambuilding: 7pm - 9pm
party :)

- values added: explaining the model of comfort/stretching/panic zone, teaching AIESEC dance - Chale Jaise Hawaien
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkct5oAZMlI)


Saturday:
Prudká u Brna - dep. 8:18 am (train)
//quick lunch in Kutná Hora//
Zbraslavice - arr. 12:50 pm (after going by 3 trains)
..
LTC of LC CZU Praha:
self-discovery session: 3:30pm - 5 pm

- value added: connections time filled from my side by "cukr, káva, limonáda, čaj, rum - bum" exercise! :-D :-D (thank you Viktor for this opportunity! ;-))

Time to move my a** and heading for another LTC - see: 3 different LTC in one day, actually :-))

Zbraslavice - dep. 5:58 pm
Suchdol n. Odrou - arr. 10:56 pm (going by 5 trains)

And about to go by OC car for LTC of LC Ostrava... well :-)) The story was a bit different than all of us expected - on the way from Budišov (LTC place) to Suchdol n. Odrou train station, it happened the the car "went out of petrol" ..So, being picked up by taxi, getting to petrol station with Jana (OCP), taking us to place of the accident, Zaida adding petrol into car and finally, moving to the venue, arriving at 1:30 am (Sunday). FUN on the way!

Sunday:
LTC of LC Ostrava and Olomouc:
coaching/mentoring - 10:00 am - 11:30 am

- values added: finding out Harry Potter is male, dancing with Fishman ;), saying bye-bye to one of my favourite people in AIESEC - RM ;-)

//And, at about 4 pm I finally reached Opava, the destination of my travelling these days :-)//

You know, sometimes you do things you know they are totally crazy - still, it is about the fact what you take out of this experience ;-)

Seems like yours NTT didn´t do anything whole Dec, Jan and Feb, huh? Not true at all!:P Besides handling exams I applied for MC (and btw got selected:P) and Hartoška undergone some more faci experiences - for example WENALDS faci - respect!!! She just could not find time to upload her story (need time management training, Hartoška? ... hahaha.... I am just trying to be funny...).

And... Both ladies from Czech NTT (me and Hana:P) applied for International Trainers Congress in Ukraine. And... both of us got selected. Well, unfortenately I had to resign due to MC and school duties (and I must say I am really angry and sad because of that). So Czech NTT expansion to Ukraine will happen only from Hana´s part. Wish you good luck, mate!

To Hana: Do not be selfish and share your faci stories with us!

WENA LDS 2008, Germany - faci XP like no other :-P

My goal to facilitate at 2 more LDS related conferences after NaLDS 2007 has come true! After Czech NEXT 2008 there came the opportunity to go to German city Bamberg for WENA LDS 2008 - so I went there ;-))

My personal journey at WENA LDS 2008 is the one I will keep in my heart forever... And again - I found out at every and single moment of your life you need to feel gratefulness for what happens to you and appreciate people who you invite to share the journey together with you for few hours, days or years.

Alright, not to get into this big story telling here, let me just post few points related to WENA LDS 2008:

~ faci premeeting run in an old monastery in Bamberg

~ conference manager - Lara Mischke, chair - Andries De Vos

~ kind of diverse faci team: Eva Ph., Cathleen, Catrin, Hendryk, Sascha, Mel, Stefii (all Germans), Zuzka Gr. (Slovakia), Rita (HK/Canada), David (Portugal), Mauritz (Sweden), Kay (Australia), Renée (Kenya), Kristian (Denmark/Kenya :-P), me :)



~ HOMEGROUP No. 7!!! ... actually no words to be said - we all (16 ppl) know what it was/is about!

Thank you Saija, Tanja, Audrey, Afsaneh, Marissa, Kaddi, Rania, Nik, Rui, André, Ken, Ömer, Johannes, Andrea and Mauritz (my co-faci) - you all made my WENA LDS experience very special.
Love yall!(HG No. 7)

~ sweet OC team: semi German, semi Portuguese!!

~ Derek Small's session and "the ritual" :-P

~ over 120 delegates from Western Europe and Northern America

~ RANDOMNESS!!!!! Amazing when you find sparing partners for allowing you, supporting you and being random with you! (was it fun team with Rita and Hendryk, random magical moments, after conference randomness in the restaurant... I had the time of my life! ;-))

~ Määäh message implemented! (including WEEE-EEE NAAAA-LDS mission song!) Damn fun!

~ words on my mind connected with WENA LDS for me after the conference: empower, release, confirmation, grattitude, give & receive

I just wish that as many as possible members of AIESEC in the Czech Republic grab the opportunity, challenge themselves and experience LDS, be it NaLDS, WENA LDS or CEE LDS based on the profound experience of (re)discovering inner leadership and living experience like no other.

May this be my wish, and - just approach me if you want to know more about concepts of these conferences. I truly wish for you to experience and take out of this as much as possible for your development and development of others.

Peace.

NEXT 2008 - faci experience

After real 3,5 yrs in AIESEC I finally managed to take part at national conference of AIESEC in the Czech Republic as facilitator and as well as part of the agenda team of NEXT 2008 conference!

Faci team on the stage:
- Katya (Ukraine), Pawel (Poland), Barča (Brasil/Czech MC), Maja (Serbia), Masha (from Russia :-P), Bea (SVK/CZE), Evca M. (SVK/CZE), Nasko (Bulgaria), Ioanna (Romania), Yulia (Ukraine), Menia (SVK/CZE) and me :)

Conference manager: - Tinka (Czech MC)

Chair: - JJ (MCP of AIESEC UK)

Agenda designed for 4 days including MCP election and External day.

Each faci was responsible for delivering 12 hrs of content to her/his homegroup.


As for me, I met here one challenge as in my homegroup we decided to use Czech language (not English) as the main one to deliver the sessions.
Meaning, not that I would have problems with my native language, just the fact is I have never delivered leadership related content in Czech, and surprisingly English comes to me more natural. Well, do not ask me why :-)

Anyway, I managed :-) and am actually very grateful for this real Czech experience.

Altough this conference was not that much personally intensive as eg. one week LDS conference can become, I still know we touched something important for every delegate, at least in my homegroup we did :-) - the question of life and inner leadership.

(my homegroup: Oli, Debbie, Jirka, Marťa, Valentýna, Nela, me, Linda, Lenka, Marek)

During The External day I delivered a workshop together with Andrea Klincokova (GreenFeather, Ltd.) for 18 delegates on the topic "Leadership & coaching" that somehow gave opportunity to new 18 people get closer to coaching as a attitude / life or leadership style. Nice!

And the (un)official song of the conference Unwritten /from Natasha Bedingfield/ just concludes the whole conference in 4 minutes :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bze7gY0dVEw

Thank you AIESEC in the Czech Republic for this for me totally new experience!

PS: Alright Mr. Jandura - the wine party night was awesome ;-)) What a cool gang we were :-)