Thursday night dinner was at the hotel. We had spaghetti, good, but not quite the New Orleans cuisine I was growing to love! We had a small service as we did every morning and then it was time for some more go group time. I really liked the way they had it this meeting set up.
Before we got started on the compliments we had a chance to go around the room and kinda wind down on how we felt about what happened that week in New Orleans. Did we have an 'aha' moment or a revelation, were we changed and how? I most definitely was and I completely spoke from my heart and brought my full self to the conversation. I can become very passionate. I know what I love about life and it's not working at US Bank 40 hours a week, it's not being single and living alone (well I do like that sometimes,) but it's helping, listening and providing something for others and photography, those are my two favorites and I got to do both all week and see some really amazing things come from it. So talking about my experiences with people I knew truly cared and were happy for me just felt so good. To see tears in my group's eyes as I talked about how I felt was comforting to know I wasn't just talking and people who were just waiting for their turn to talk. They wanted to know, wanted to listen, wanted to feel my experience. I too truly cared to know how this trip went for everyone in my group. I wanted to see how they've grown and what this experience had taught them so maybe I could learn even more.
After we had a chance to share our "aha" moments we were to go around in a circle and give our group members compliments. Things we noticed about them throughout the week that we admired or wanted to congratulate them on. It's weird. I have very many close friends. Ones that I admire for countless different reasons. Some that I've had for 10 plus years, and I may compliment them on looking pretty or having a new cute top or whatever it may be, but it's never as deep as we got during this meeting. It's something I want to make an effort to do with my friends back home. We were given stickers and with each compliment given a sticker was handed out. It made me feel really good to give and recieve these kind words. It was nice to hear things like, you're brave, you're strong, you're a good listener, you have great energy, you're a good friend, you're truly a good woman. I wish I could remember them all now but I can't. Some of them were especailly good to hear because I know they were things that I wanted to do. Things I wanted to become better at as a friend and to hear people notice them, I felt like I had improved some things about myself that I set out to do.
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