Death after life!



Meetings around the date of “All Saints’ date”, like the one of the 2^nd November 2010, make us think of our own life and the “great beyond”.

The Casa Orlandai meeting room has two entrances: one in the front and one in the back. As soon as the meeting starts, Phil, our SAA, looks the front door, and late attendants get in through the back door. It means it’s difficult to know how many people are in the room after the meeting ahs started, because always there is a flow in and out of late arrivals and early departures… All this to say that we were around 36 attending, included 9 visitors. As “the” neuron was focused in taking notes, I could not get the names of all of them, this is what happens with the multitask system without enough RAM capacity. One of the relevant visitors was a DTM from NY, and other was  Dima’s mother; it reinforces the feeling of a big family!

Tulia, our President,  is an actual multi task woman, and perfectly developed the task as President together with being the Toastmaster of the day. The title of the session was “Dead after life”, and we clearly saw that life is a process that takes to death, and that it happens all around the world. Thousands of million people have reached the same conclusion along centuries!, so probably it could be right Fortunately  the word of the day was “Life”, a word that creates better feelings than death.

Tulia announced the Division Contest in Lisbon, where Peter is going to represent PS, and invited people to attend.  Good luck to Peter!

And not to forget, the District contest in Barcelona, Saturday November 20th 2010, starting 11:00 am @!!

Maries Gomes (Table Topic master) put the group into a neighbors’ community meeting. This kind of communities offers all kind of human conflicts, and Peter, Josefine, Ignasi and Caroline reported to the other community owners about their relationship with noise, early music, dogs and bikes

Florian broke the ice of the speeches  (Public Relations - 4 - Speaking Under Fire (“New Horizons - New Hope” ) with a particular perception about what would happen on a hypothetical new political scenario.

We went to a trade fair with Natalia (Competent Communication Manual - 4 - How to Say It “Media Alert to Press, Radio & TV” ) and saw all what we have to do before, during and after the fair if  we want to be professional, effective an d efficient.

It was a pleasure and honor to listen to the new Competent Communicator  Melinda (congratulations!!) ( Competent Communication Manual - 10 - Inspire Your Audience “Make it Meaningful”) We all thought about our positions in professional environment, may be as bosses or as employees, about how to motivate people: giving autonomy (self direction), mastery, and purpose, all addressed to a profit: it is the magic formula to productivity.

And Daniel broke the ice (Competent Communication Manual - 1 - The Ice Breaker (“NOW” ) with an emotive race through his childhood, having a vision of the future and getting forward step by step, till finding himself “NOW”  as TM member.

“Evaluators” Ricardo, Edith, Angela and Goving, and   “Timekeeper” Jose Mª  and Irene  (“Ah counter”)  gave accurate and positive reports.

Brenda, as General Evaluator, took the stage and went through all details, giving positive inputs and suggestions, and she summarized very well what she finds fantastic at TM meetings: people speak; people learn from others; people entertain. What else can be asked for?

Tulia closed the meeting with an inspiring Montaigne quotation, and with the ONE guests’ word: “creative” ,“funny”, “motivating”, “stimulating”, “interesting”, “inviting”, “positive”, “exciting”.

 Phil made us of the gavel to close, and to ask for ALL to be OUT rushing.

Till next post,

Alvaro

 

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