Comments - 2 weeks of transformation by SALT - Community life competence2024-03-28T17:58:49Zhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=2028109%3ABlogPost%3A2101&xn_auth=noThank you Gaston for sharing…tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2008-10-19:2028109:Comment:25812008-10-19T11:53:32.985ZMariJohttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/MariJo
Thank you Gaston for sharing this with us.<br />
For me, this trip to Northern Thailand was like a short parentheses in the long period of heavy work I have been inmerse for the last months. It is a very deep and enriching work, but having the opportunity to be part of a SALT visit and sharing with all of you was like puting the last piece to the puzzle. A sense of relieve as when you can see the whole picture.<br />
Back home, I had to continue dedicating almost all my time to the project, only that... in…
Thank you Gaston for sharing this with us.<br />
For me, this trip to Northern Thailand was like a short parentheses in the long period of heavy work I have been inmerse for the last months. It is a very deep and enriching work, but having the opportunity to be part of a SALT visit and sharing with all of you was like puting the last piece to the puzzle. A sense of relieve as when you can see the whole picture.<br />
Back home, I had to continue dedicating almost all my time to the project, only that... in the back of my mind there is still that light telling me that this local and specific work I am doing is part, must be part, of a broader current of seeing, of feeling, of living.<br />
My SALT visit did not open a new path in front of me, it was already in my life long before that. It did not made me discover wonderful people, most of them were already in my life and others I could guess they were someplace in the world. Then why was it so important for me?<br />
Because it allowed me to touch at different levels things that I have only guessed (wished) in the past. It was not about specific events but the whole experience what let me have the inner convinction that I was about to start something new.<br />
I could see clearly the profound connection among the people working in the communities once they decide to walk together, you can see there a sense of power that do not depend on what they are, what the say... is about them being self-confident. I could see that in my local community we need to find something we have lost which is absolutely necessary in order to live happily: we need to recover our identity as a community.<br />
I could clearly see what being a leader was. I have tried to define what "a leader must not be", but there I could see what a leader is.<br />
I could see how you can share the meaning of important things, how you could talk the same language even when you did not speak the language.<br />
I could experience diversity, not talk about it.<br />
So, the experience of sharing with you all there inspired me to come back here, get in touch with some of my friends and start thinking together as a team how to start spreading the dream in Barcelona. I am a very lucky person, I have a few wonderful people around me with whom I have long talked about new ways of living, about the need for a personal and collective search for something different, and at last we have decided to come together and so within the Constellation frame.<br />
I deeply believe in the magic of life. Not that kind of magic that is done through a magic wand with no personal intervention, but the one that brings to your life everything you need to be happy. The only thing you have to do is to decide to incorporate it and go for it!<br />
Thinking of you makes me feel connected to something real.<br />
Thank you.