"To be able to lead others you first need to learn how to lead yourself"

 

After an 8:00a.m start for breakfast, we all gathered at the flagpole for our official opening ceremony. We started by everybody introducing themselves. It turned out there were approximately 30 participants and facilitators present for the week, from around 27 different countries. We learned we were linked with more than 30 participants at this very moment joining in the seminar in Sangam, India for the week.  We then had a photo shoot of all the participants and the planning team, which made us feel quite famous! We also got into patrols and chose our patrol name and motto. For example, our patrol is called SUMIT.  No, we don’t have a spelling problem! This is an anagram of all our native countries: Slovenia, U.S.A. and U.K; Malta, Ireland and Tanzania.

The first session was titled “Me as a Leader”. It featured two very familiar “Helen Storrow” facilitators! 

They took us on a journey through Our Chalet of self discovery. We learned more about ourselves as leaders and evaluated ourselves on things we must improve on. 

For the next session, we took a closer look at how we are interacting with the environment at a global level. We learned what it means to be a global citizen, and we also calculated our personal ecological footprint. 
Many surprised faces here! 

We realised we can reduce our consumption needs. As a practical implication of this newly acquired knowledge, we are taking a reading of our water meter each day. Today we found we used 3400 litres of water. That’s roughly 110 litres per person! 

This has inspired us to conserve water as much as possible. All in all, this was an amazing start to this incredible experience and we’re very much looking forward to the next five days!

SUMIT Patrol

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