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June 01, 2010
Hello My Dear Japanese Friends and Friends from Japan!
How is life going for you?...
For me, as usual, full of challenges but also full of rewarding experiences.
This time to share with you some pictures of my recent visit to Santa Cruz in Bolivia as the International Instructor of a Leadership Course for FUNBOLIDER, a Foundation working for the Global Competitiveness Leadership that was established as final project of one of my friends from Georgetown University in 2007.
The training was for 42 potential leaders selected among more than 200 candidates, all of them with very good professional background and education.
Disability is not the main topic here nor anyone in the audience has one, but through my stories, projects and group dynamics I did my best to inspire them and call them for action and to develop their leadership potential to improve their country.
Very successful course and lectures in other companies, one of them the largest engineering consortium of Bolivia CAEM - SOINCO and also the main newspaper and media group EL DEBER, here the link with an article about the visit.
http://www.eldeber.com.bo/vernotasantacruz.php?id=100522212458
(of course it's in spanish, sorry!)
Also another lecture in one of the main Universities of Bolivia The UPSA.
It was the perfect scenario to apply one of the group motivation techniques that I've been working on, named "achieving the impossible" which is based on the famous Rubik's cube. And yes!... some ot them made it!
Remember that many of us, with very special life stories and used to overcome obstacles on a dayly basis, have many things to share with all the people, not only PWDs, so c'mon let's keep giving the world a push forward!
I always remember all of you and I'm always expecting another good reason to go back to Japan.
Warm regards,
Fabio Padilla
Colombian Engineer living in Brazil
JICA Leadership course 2006
www.fabiopadilla.com
(web site under construction)
http://jicafriends.jp/projects/latinamerica/colombia/001fabio/006.html
Posted by jicafriends at June 1, 2010 02:24 PM