GCY Training
Coming Together
He say “I know you, you know me”
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together right now over me
-The Beatles
Last Saturday, around 4pm Pacific Standard Time, the Founding Fellows of Global Citizen Year came together. Drawn from opposite sides of America, we were all a motley crew: some of us in rain jackets or blazers and others in dresses and t-shirts. We may have looked like a separate entity, but this in fact was the physical beginning of our cohesiveness as a group.
Inspiring Stories
At the risk of sounding cliche, I would just like to say that the past few days have been some of the most inspiring and stimulating of my life. From our vantage point up here in the hills of the Intitute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, CA, spending one pleasant hour after the next listening to the inspiring stories of travelers, professors and social entreprenuers, its hard to see anything but hope and optimism in our surroundings and our future. This place feels like a sort of safe-haven or mini paradise with its beautiful weather, wholesome food and the company of cheerful, enthusiastic, now-familiar people.
The Latest News
GCY is perpetually introducing me to things that make me think “HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS BEFORE?!” Last night was no exception. AFTER our incredibly eye-opening and very full day (not leaving out an incredible dinner at an authentic Guatemalan restaurant…) which you will no doubt hear about from other Fellows, we got a surprise. If we were exhausted from waking up at 5:45, traveling in the back of a shock-less van, pumping blood flow to our brains in order to ask relevant questions of the incredible people we had spent our day meeting and/or the inevitable food coma that a chile relleno will bring on… our excitement brought us back to life upon stumbling out of the van right in front of the San Francisco office of Current TV.
Day 3: Center for Creative Leadership
The organization, Center for Creative Leadership visited IONS today to teach us all about creative leadership. Their focus was to help us discover what kind of leader we are and how we can improve our human connections and collaborations to become better leaders. Our facilitators were Joel Wright and Sarah Miller. Joel and Sarah have been doing this for very long, and they were very kind and easy to work with.
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- RT @MiddlesexSchool: Meaghan MX'10 begins her Global Citizen Year n a few weeks. Want to learn more abt her gap year? http://bit.ly/9pp8qs
