Spoken Words

"Your thoughts encounter your actions and your succes depends on it."

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Time is running fast! Last week we were finishing at school our module 'business design' and today we are ending the summit from I-Genius in Thailand. Unbelievable how much you can learn in only one week of time. 
We learned for example a lot by giving a workshop on this summit and going through a up-and-down-process. This was a good example of not working for the concrete outcome, but more for the learnings and the experience of just doing things. So it actually doesn't feel like a fancy tropical summit trip, but just as moving the school to another location. 
And yes of course, it is like paradise here and that comes together with a lot of fun and pleasure. Yesterday we had our last night with a beach diner/party. We ended up doing crazy games, swimming under the stars in the sea and having inspiring conversations. I realised this morning that the nice thing of this trip (and by being a KaosPilot student in general) is that we don't only learn by assignments and projects, but even more by making contact with the most inspiring people and stories. How you will do business together doesn't really matter in the first place. It's all about really meeting the persons and their passion. And I really see that we made a lot of very good and long-lasting contacts out of that...
So now we can move on with lots of new energy and work on new projects and experiences. Soe, Maja and I (Carianne) will stay some longer in Phuket to explore the possibilities to work with local social entrepreneurs here. We already have some open doors in the Tsunami-network, so we're looking forward to new learningfull week!

1 comment:

Ragnar Syltevik said...

hmm.. sounds like the weather atleast is better over there than in the beuuuutiful city of rotterdam...=)

Can't wait to play around abit with the idea of an outpost in Thailand with the whole team... I think that could be cool!

keep us uåådated on what you're all doing.. and try to post some pictures of you guys??

lots of love