Emptying and recharging for tomorrow: leadership enhancement training for middle-ranking activists

 

We at the KWWA provided leadership enhancement training for middle-ranking activists entitled ‘Emptying and recharging for tomorrow’ for 3 days between October 29 and 31, 2009 at the Jirisan Mountain.

 

Approximately 20 full-time activists who have been working over 2 years had a good chance to reckon on our structure and take a rest for better tomorrow on the title of good rest and introspection.

 

Above all, we had good talks about life, peace and living in the community with Monk Dobup from the Silsangsa Temple.  There is its thread of connections with our vision, ‘equality, peace~’, helping us to think over and find solutions.

 

As the second program, we practiced partner yoga and meditation. We presumed that we might have to stretch a lot, but this partner yoga was to practice one by one with our partners, learning to rely on and care partners.  It was a good time for us to relax ourselves who had been tired from our daily tasks.

 

On the second day, we had a time to take a walk around the village.  Olle trail routes on Jeju Island already became very famous, but Dulle trail routes in the Jirisan Mountain began to be known by word of mouth.  Even if it was a trail around, because all trails in the Mt. Jirisan are tough, participants complained that it was hard like climbing a mountain. However, when people went over the Deunggu-jae Hill, participants were so fascinated at a beautiful village surrounded by terraced fields.  The landscape was so beautiful and charming that we forgot all our troubles: there were uninhabited taverns; old people were so kind that they gave us soft persimmons free; and grasshoppers hopped and flew in the field. We won’t forget all the beauties.

 

In the evening on the second day and in the morning on the third day, both, Jeong Moon Ja, chairperson of the KWWA, conducted a workshop entitled ‘Checking myself and our organization for searching for hopes’. In this session, we had a time to think about various visions of ourselves and our organizations, including myself that I identify as my image; myself that my coworkers consider as my image; my organization that I consider; agonies and worries and concerns that only full-time activists work over 2 years for the KWWA have.

 

Escaping from our daily routines and putting down our loads as middle-ranking activists, we were able to have a valuable time to look back ourselves and have good communications with others in the arm of Mother Nature for 3 days.