013. Truth Day: Or the day Pioneers got real.

Today’s morning meeting was about videos: The Holstee Manifesto shared by ISA and what portrays what I consider are the best maxims to enjoy your life. Amazing video, if you haven’t see it or if you haven’t read the manifesto I really encourage you to read it since is amazing! Mabe also shared a video: Smile or Die. I liked the general idea to be real with yourself and work based on reality not illusion but I honestly didn’t liked the flaws the presenter had in the economic grounds. Fortunately Bert pointed out them and we dialogued about them for a bit.

Then we had Greek! I’m still surprised how much I’m enjoying this since at the beginning I tought it was going to be something boring or shallow. But how mistaken I was I love greek because it can help you to track the stories of words and I love to do that!

The main dish of the day was the Getting Real discussion. I got chills just to try to describe this activity.

Thinking back the activity was a little bit stressful but in the longer term I think it has helped us to develop a better culture among the MPC. We had scheduled a dialogue on the first chapter of getting Real but since we were real and didn’t all read it we decided to instead do an activity described in the book. We had to say “I notice this X and I imagine Y” we did if first in couples. Mine was Isa and we did it very good and we had fun doing so but later we decided to do it in the group. We established the rule that a person had to say something to other and then the other had to say something to someone else. Wooow! We used this chance to get real and share some of our thoughts about what we imagined the other pioneers were doing to build our culture at the MPC. Ufff we received a lot of feedback that day and the great thing was that we start losing the taboo that giving negative feedback (things you might improve) is a very cool and great way to express your trust, care and friendship to another person.  

But ohhh I might tell you that it was stressful since the things that people imagine you are doing might be not what you are doing. So even if they are wrong in their imagining is always good to know. It is the only way to know how your actions really affect the other! And yes it was a little bit stressful but in the longer term I think it has smooth the environment at the MPC. After this almost 2 hour session, we decided that we must doing this constantly and during the moment that the things that might dislike us are happening.  Also interesting was the fact that Bert before we began decided to step out and it was a good choice!