I'm talking about a 2.5 day deal that incorporates sleep deprivation, a lesson in neuroscience, and a heart monitor to help better your leadership skills. I can't say specifics but I learned how to use "I" and I said it a lot. Never have I ever talked to so much about myself. The whole program has been divided up into 3 teams. I am in team A and there are 44 of us so we went through LIFE first. We were isolated from the rest of the students and by the time we were "set free" we had almost forgotten that there were 126 student in CIMBA, not just us. As past of our seclusion were specifically told when to eat (as in "you may now have your dinner"), when to talk(we were life Pavlov's dogs with the bell), and where to be at what times. These 44 students, after 2.5 days, know more about me than 85% of my friends back home do. They told me things about myself that no one, other than family, has ever shared with me before. We were constantly told to "trust the process" and I resisted it up until session 5 (there are a total of 6 session), I thought it was all so superficial and bs. I finally gave in during "graduation" in which the founder of CIMBA and ALL of the professors were in attendance. We each had to recite a poem titled Success by Emerson and, due to the environment and nature of the training, it was one of the hardest things I have ever done. In the end, it was worth it though. Oh, and did I mention that we broke a board during LIFE, yep, I sliced through it like butter!
Post-graduation: The Pizzeria! Team A went to the pizzeria for a well deserved celebration while Teams B and C were in Venice and Bassano Del Grappa. On Sunday I didn't get up until 9:30am. That was the first time since I have been here that I have missed a sunrise, seriously. A group of us went to Church on campus at 11 which was really cool because while it was still in Italian I was able to follow along because all Catholic services are the same. After that we went had a delicious pasta lunch, again, and began planning out first Travel Week! Thirteen of us are going to Venice for Carnivale, Prague, Berlin, Amsterdam and Brussels!
I am excited to get back to class tomorrow and to continue leadership training and team building with my lovely Team A, LIFE class 1038!
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