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 :-)

Body language in Karviná

Yesterday (4th December) I went to visit AIESEC Karviná to deliver training. There was a bunch of about 15 people waiting and ready to learn what body language is and how to use it. We spent very nice hour and something by gaining new "Body language"knowledge, sharing our stories and disscussion wheter we are or are not to read body language (both ours and others) and wheter we can influence it consciously. We also shared our stories with body language from business meetings. I have to say there was very nice atmosphere and I felt very comfortable with my lovely participants. Thank you guys for your contribution:)

Btw, AIESEC Karviná has really cool office:)

AIESEC „besídka“

How many times have you already introduced AIESEC to somebody? All those chats about opportunities in AIESEC, international environment, interaction with business environment, conferences…

Now imagine you are asked by a kindergarten director to performance Xmas AIESEC sketch to little children to present them what AIESEC does. This is what I asked AIESEC Zlin members last week in November as I was asked to come. At the beginning they were a bit surprised and stuck. But.... :) At the end we had two lovely sketches and also Zlin interns were involved.

Are you curious what else can NTT deliver? Stay tuned to find more. Next week we have double NTT “mission”. Hana will deliver Leadership in Zlin. I will deliver Body language in Karvina.

Leadership workshop for LC Zlín

Just 2 weeks before Christmas I was about to deliver workshop on leadership in LC Zlín.




As it was communicated from Mojco's side with these words:
" bring some nice ideas from NALDS... to generate some deep discussions, take them out of the comfort zone and motivate them to keep developing their leadership (hidden message: appply for leadership roles) ;)"


.. still on the way to Zlín was not sure what exactly will be delivered, just the idea was clear. Well, try to manage all of that in given 120 minutes :-))

If anyone is interested to know how exactly the workshop looked like, just write me a line (hana.hartosova(at)gmail.com), I am free to share it with you.

--
Thanks Mojco for hosting me at his place that night and a early morning crazy ride to bus station :-D

Feedback training for LC Praha

Nov 27 was the date for delivering training on Feedback for around 35 people. As we need to follow some rules at the university, I needed to keep the training in 50 minutes.

Wanna start feedback culture in your LC?
Wanna have your members motivated to get and give feedback?
Then feel free to contact NTT and we will be pleased to deliver this training to you.

If you are interested what this highly effective training was about, just have a look in the mind map :-)

NaLDS 2007 - "Discover your way" (faci experience)

Talking or writing about NaLDS is always strange. This Leadership seminar is one of those you need to EXPERIENCE with your heart in order to capture what all the "I-have-been-to-NaLDS" people think of when they mention NaLDS.

This year I participated at NaLDS as facilitator and co-facilitated with Eva Philippi /Germany/ one week track for homegroup of 9 people . (ApChoc homegroup)

What is more, as facilitator I was part of a big conference team of 30 people (facis from CZE, ROM and GER; OCP Sara Usinger from GER and OC from GER and few more countries; conference manager Kevin G. /MC in GER/ & chair Børge H. /NOR/) who together with 100 delegates delivered JUST UNIQUE week experience for all of us.

With one word, NaLDS for me was just powerfully "intensive", yeap.

(NaLDS 2007 conference team)

Int'l NTTs meeting in Bonn, Germany

As I spend few days in Germany, Michaela (MC VP in AIESEC Germany) initiated International NTTs meeting in Bonn for one day.

3 of us met in person:

• Birte Kloppenburg - German NTT
• Andreea Sultan - Romanian NTT
• me "representing Czech colours" :-P
• and Martin (Austrian NTT) joined us through skype.
  

Covering sharing, gathering ideas for NTTs development and co-operation, finding out what do we understand as trainer, what are the standards of NTT in each country... that was it all about.
We plan to have one more, virtual meeting soon.

(small insight about what was discussed)

With Lenka we plan to deliver one more event for those who are interested - it might be TtT Advaced - facilitator track, Learning academy or somethings totally different.

So on Dec 6, when having half-year NTT meeting with Barbara in Prague, we will plan how to support learning of our members by delivering one more cool "TtT-based" seminar.

Presentation skills in Olomouc

On 21th November I trained Presentation skills in Olomouc. We learnt how to prepare presentation to deliver appropriate message to our audience and also talked about body language and its usage during presentation. I spent very nice moments with Olomouc members. My big experience was not only training itself but also amazing historical room where training took place. Pics HERE.

DO-IT 2007 in Switzerland

Right after my Polish chairing and FallCo facilitating I travelled to Switzerland to be a faci in DO-IT conference in Alps. Again - I was a part of international faci team, I was co-responsible for newies track and co-designing and delivering training and facilitating home group. Anyway, it was completely different experience than during FallCo in the Czech Republic.

Again I had a chance to meet many lovely people, both in faci team and delegates. Again I had lot of fun, got inspiration and learnt a lot. Wanna more know who were those lovely people called facis? See the pic.

And my final impression? If you want to experience really international AIESEC conference and meet lovely boys - be a part of DO-IT:) Officially I had only one international delegate in my home group. After asking "the rest of you guys are from Switzerland?" I realized that one half are international students studying in Switzerland and the second half consists of young Swiss with at least one parent abroad:)

FallCo 2007

From 1st to 4th November I was a part of Newies faci team in FallCo 2007. Wow, it was just great. Working in international faci team, working on sessions and tasks for newies, facilitating home group, running training,...

I have to say newies of AIESEC in the Czech Republic are really smart. After getting folder full of tasks, information, deadlines and other requirements without concrete instructions how to fulfill them they devided responsibilities very quickly and started to work. They even were eager to fulfill extra tasks to win competition. And of course they represented newies track very well by performing their shouts during pleanaries and by attendance in parties. It was very nice experience to help newies to find out more about AIESEC and inspire and motivate them to take next steps in AIESEC.

Also I enjoyed a lot working with international facis - Barbára (Czech/Brazil), (Serbia/Croatia), Alex, Mada, Romeo and Gabelu (Romania), Steph (Canada/Spain) and Kvetos and Bea (Czech Republic). Guys, I enjoyed many lovely moments with you. Thank you for your support, nice chats and inspiration.

Also thank you our lovely MC and Habib - our lovely chair. I am looking forward NEXT conference:)

Czech NTT chairing expansion to Poland - Hana's experience

My friend from CEEMOS 2007 faci team, Aga Jeszke, invited me before summer to come to Wroclaw to chair at their Local Committee Conference, LCC 2007 of AIESEC Polska Komitet Lokalny Politechnika Wrocławska.
Well, it went more serious :-) when traveling through whole Czech Republic to Wroclaw. I had the chance to meet facis (=EB) 2 days before the conference started, got to know Kay (Australia) who was OCP of LCC, met few more OC members (Kamila - great job, girl!, Slim - "just" French-Arabic speaking Tunisian trainee). At the venue when delegates started to arrive I realised actually what my role was... pretty soon :-) Seriously, you are there to guide the people through the plenary times, to chat with some of them during the coffee breaks and lunch times, to think of who of them will be the next leading body of the LC in few years, to manage some alumni at their workshops, etc.

To share one of my personal highlights of the conference, I think of the night of global village I spent around 2 hours in the dining hall with Masaru (Japanese trainee), Slim (Tunisian trainee) and Źyrafka (Polish AIESEC member). Masaru talked interesting stuff about his country, wrote some caligraphy posters for us and all seemed to be so nice - just 4 different nationalities from 3 different continets under one roof at one table in one small house in Poland somewhere at the border with Czech Republic... then you think of the peace that is possible to reach when respecting each other.

I had the chance to see how looked local conference in different country and realised we were all the same around the globe. Nice. :-)

supporting LC Ostrava - LTC in Budišov n. Budišovkou

Being invited for Local Committee Conference 2007 of LC Ostrava for couple of hours and delivering 2,5 hrs of outdoor games was my next opportunity to see how guys in Ostrava get ready for newies and what energy do they put into the conference in order to leave with 20 motivated new members.

Having completed some of the task inside as 3 small teams, we went out to play the Human bingo. So we had the chance to see how "drunk soldier looks like" or found out after few minutes who wears red underwear ;-)
Solving some strategic games and having really fun included.
Speaking from my heart, I was greateful I had the chance to see and participate partly at another LTC (so far have attended LTC from 3 other LCs in AIESEC in the Czech Republic) and happy to see how they "live AIESEC" in Ostrava.

Thanks for inviting me & thanks for the short chats we had - it is always valuable for both sides to see the "work" and fun from different perspectives.

Czech NTT chairing expansion to Poland - Lenka´s part

Hey you all! Do you know both lovely ladies of your NTT spent weekend of 27th to 28th October 2007 by being so called chairs of two local AIESEC conferences in Poland? Wanna know more? Here is Lenka´s part. About a month ago I received a very suprising e-mail. I was asked bo co come to Warsaw and be a chair of AIESEC Warsaw University LCC. Of course I did not hesitate and said YES.

I had a chance to get to know amazing faci team composed of AIESEC Warsaw University EB - conference manager Ewelina, Mowdi, Oski, Sandra, Hania, Kwol and supported by Chwalka from Polish AIESEC National Support Team. And I could also cooperate with a nice Organizing Committee led by Anna and supported by internationals Brian (USA) and Vinnie (Brazil).

This conference was attended by about 100 delegates (both newies and experieced ones). It was a big opportunity to meet very various people. And also a big opportunty to find out how it is to be a chair. To entertain people, to be responsible for plenaries, to run faci meetings and communicate with OC. Thank you for giving me chairing opportunity! I learnt a lot:)

Prague and Pilsen LTC

I took part in AIESEC Prague and AIESEC Pilsen LTC this weekend and my say it was just great. I was responsible for delivering outdoor games and presentation skills training.

During Friday afternoon we spent a nice time outside playing games to get to know each other. We went through ice-breaker games, name games but also games for communication and team cooperation to find out how these skills in team are.

On Saturday delegates experienced night game. It was really cold outside and participants were blindfolded so conditions were not easy. However I must say all of them succeded and I was very proud of them. And then I also realized from their words they had enjoyed the games so I was also proud of my outdoor team that helped me to prepare all games, to. Let now say a big THANK YOU to all members of OUTDOOR TEAM. They were: Marťa Motyčková, Teri Lukšíková, Zdeněk Fred Fous, Michal Hudeček, Terka Mrková, Jirka Kolena, Pavel Vávra, Standa Hába and Helča Kebrdlová - all of them from AIESEC Prague.

I also delivered presentation skills training to a group of about 12 newies. I must say I really enjoyed it and hope my participants did the same:)

Guys from Prague and Pilsen AIESEC, I must say - thank you for giving me an opportunity to be a part of such a great LTC as your was. You did a great fob and I wish you good luck with your newies.

my perspective :-)

After reading previous post from Lenka (it is so nice from you!!), I got stuck - like "ok, selected for NaLDS 2007 facis team, so what?"..

It is just ...

... the start, with celebration moment, of course :-))

No seriously, let me just post with giving you general overview how it usually looks like when you go as faci for conference:



- application for the faci team released

- you sent your application and if it works out, you become part of new faci team

- now the work starts: getting to know other members of particular team (mostly virtually;-) ), getting closer to the objectives of the conference and starting preparation for sessions, mostly working on certain topic with other 2 or 3 facis

- you meet firstly in person with the teamnear/at the venue few days before the conference starts -- so called pre-meeting

- going through "different" get-2-know, runnning through the content of the conference, "frying out" at the place, too :-), etc.

- the conference starts, you just rock ;-)

- and after it you meet once again for the post-meeting


Ha, still a long run, isnt it? Wonderful long run!!

Hartoška je boží!!!

Miss Hana Hartošová (aka Hartoška) is going to facilitate NaLDS in Germany!!! Isn´t she great? Wish you a great faci experience, my NTT mate. Show them how to rock the house:)