Tuesday, 12 October 2010

„Speeded up a team“

Staying here in South Africa since 3 days we’ve gotten so much impressions about the “South African way of living”: poor-rich-middle.

With the background of this little view on people’s daily life, generally concerning the water situation, we started today in the morning from Pretoria to Johannesburg and it should be

the start in a day which can describe as a “journey back to your own”.

After a renewed discussion about the presentation of the Prof of the University of Pretoria everybody has given a statement what contribution in helping people can be personally.

One great step for growing together as a team is “lived tolerance” and respect for all opinions without condemn anyone. If we want to be tolerant and also respect the culture of the South African people we had to start by ourselves. Already on Sunday Mark told us in Pretoria about the “Heroic Journey” based on an idea of Nelson Mandela and he gave us the assignment preparing our individually “Heroic Journey”for today as a flip-chart drawing:



Home – Quest – Test – Shift – Gift


Later we’ve visited the “Constitution Court” as a symbolic building overcoming the Apartheid and installing democracy structures. The architecture of the courtyard building has shown this in an impressive way: Some old building parts as a symbol of the passed history existing together with a new modern and inviting architecture. While visiting this we’ve made another important step growing together in a time by interviewing a partner of his talent and what he’s proud on it. In that last meeting of an impressive and intense way you get an insight for a short small moment on everybody’s self-understanding.Hearing from each other their “Heroic Journey” and speaking of his own was a very intense moment. In explaining the drawing it was a great opening of himself or herself, cause the way automatically has reflected of what you’ve done or what has gone wrong and what you learned from this passed situation. The essence of them could be the gift, a gift also to South Africa, not only to your own way of life.

Coming out and will be further on open minded in and for a group of foreign people is one of the most successful way “growing together in a team” in a short time.