Yesterday I attended the Virtues Regional Mentorship conference for North America. I was highly apprehensive about the length of the conference - some 8 hours during the most productive time of my Saturday. I griped to myself about all the other ways I could be using my time and didn't the organisers know that to spend a continuous 8 hour stretch on zoom was just not healthy or conducive to the well being of peoples bodies? On and on the criticisms played in my head right up until the time I signed in. As the day wore on, and I remained connected and actively engaged for the entire time. Very reluctantly having to heed the call of my bladder. I realised the importance of my presence. I was given the bounty of seeing and speaking with so many people that are using the Virtues Project in their communities to make something new guided by the power of the virtues. I saw how transformational is the use of the language of the virtues, teachable moments, setting clear boundaries, honouring of the spirit and companioning are the strategies in furthering social justice conversations, now more than ever to enable each person to create new relationships with those they encounter. I learned about the amazing things that the Virtues Project International Association is endeavouring to bring about to galvanize its facilitators to bring the transformational character of Virtues Project to more and more people in the world. I basked in the company of two of the Founders of the Virtues Project, Dan Popov and Linda Kavelin-Popov and absorbed their priceless nuggets of wisdom, their sensitivity to the state of the world and their encouragement to grow out of this crisis and create a whole new world around me. I emerged yesterday, at the completion of the conference with new perspectives on where I want to focus my energies and how to go about renewing what was and what will be.
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