I was quite excited to attend this conference. When I first read the notice of this event, I was impressed with the consultants and the way the notice was written. ‘The leadership game’ and the sentence ‘all you have to bring is yourself and curious mind’ provoked some excitement in me. Just reflecting on this, I got impressed and excited because the way the notice was written. The words director, leader, consultant somehow made me respect all the consultants even before I attended this event. This prompts me to think it is probably because of the culture and country I come from i.e. India. From my childhood, I have been taught that respect people who are elder than you and younger person should obey command of elders. (When I am writing this, this is provoking some emotions inside me.) People with titles like director, doctor are given lot of respect in my family.
Two days before the event I was reflecting on my own leadership style and how I see it in my life. I think, it gave me a good start and helped me make more sense of my actions during plenary. The day of the event, Friday April 4, 2008 I was late for the opening session of the plenary as I had some argument with my group members Zareen and Israna regarding Strategic leadership group assignment. That was bit emotionally draining for me and I had lost some excitement for this session. That day, this argument was playing a lot in my mind. My interest in the event of the first day was affected a lot by these external factors. This makes me think, how one part of life is connected with all other spheres of life. It is so difficult to switch off thoughts of mind about some earlier incident. Even though, I knew at this moment I should concentrate on the events at Plenary but still I was really feeling bit disturbed about the argument.
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