Team players

I am noticing more and more that what I say i need is delivered in an amazingly rapid space of time. Its almost like I have a hot line to a Life Force that is so for me that I don't even realise how much.

Anu, my partner in this training in Liberia, chatted a little bit about how nice it would be if we had a "team" of people to support us in this training. you know, people to take notes, audio people, people to help us get the stuff up the stairs and into the training room ... and so on. Its something we are used to as a way of training in the More to Life programme, but at the time seemed very much like a Wildly Improbable Goal to have!

So, when Anu and I arrived yesterday at the training at the YMCA in Broad Street, and started to unpack the car, I didnt really think about the young men who ran to help us, or the ones who helped us set the chairs and the room up, and the people at the back with a printer and computers at the ready to take notes. Only when I was handed a mike by the audio people did I turn to Anu and say... " we've got audio" and we realised that in fact we have much more than that.. we have a team who run and get us things, hang the information on the wall when we need it and bring us tea and our lunch.

The point is this; we sometimes dont even notice when what we want is right in front of us, on a platter, because we have it set to look like something we have come to know.

I am bowled over at the generous,warmth that I am experiencing from the Liberians we are working with. The group is so open and willing and they make the training a pleasure. I am just loving it.

Part of the team are the two caterers assistants at the back who were so interested in the training that they have joined in. They started by writing on a peice of paper the notes that we made on the flipchart, and when we noticed them doing it, we asked them to join in from the back.

The next Wildly Improbable Goal I have is that one day we will work with young men so that they will not perpetuate the cycle of abuse of their fathers and grandfathers. We have started with Joshua and James ... and I certainly wait for the opportunity to do more!