I shaould have been elsewhere this weekend...
...I should have been at Connotations. Unfortunately the timing of our staff conference made this impossible. Like a good little responsible, not-for-profit sector employee I hied me along to the conference.
And I had a really good time!
We had a fun day. We have been (and indeed still are) going through a massive period of change at work which is both challenging and at times scary. It seems the higher ups fixed on the idea that the best way to weld us into a team that can achieve what we need to achieve was to take make sure we (a) laughed (b) got taught some zen messages and (c) laughed more and uh...(d) learned how to juggle in groups. *g*
It did seem to work though. People who never talk to one another did, we played and laughed together (as in tears of laughter and fighting for breath laughter) and I think most people came out of it with an upbeat attitude.
The messages which came out of the conference were about finding the fun in work (heh...well as the guy leading workshop in the afternoon said - we spend 60% of our lives at work - do you want to be miserable or do you want to have a good time?), diffusing stress with laughter and playing together (and that looks way more dirty typed out than when someone says it in a seminar)!
There was also much talk of "being in the moment" (told you - zen!) and attitude readjustment (the only thing you can be 100% in control of is your reaction to a situation - so why choose to be miserable when there are alternatives).
If anyone needs a great speaker to get their conference off to a bang may I suggest (in the absence of such luminaries as Jonathan Woodward and Neil Roberts and a few bottles of whisky to provide a Communion *g*) to direct their attention to Kate Hull Rogers?
So yes dahlings. I am back and I am adjusting my attitude. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Things will be hairy on the work front for a while but I shall endeavour not to bore myself rigid, and you silly, with whining any more. Assuming there are any of you left and I'm not just yelling into the void. *g*
From now on I am going to live in the moment and be happy because, damn it, life is far too short for anything else. Which was a lesson I learned in 2002, but somehow I lost my grasp on those two tenets of faith.
*makes with the grabby hands*
There will be some fannish posts shortly. *beams*
And I had a really good time!
We had a fun day. We have been (and indeed still are) going through a massive period of change at work which is both challenging and at times scary. It seems the higher ups fixed on the idea that the best way to weld us into a team that can achieve what we need to achieve was to take make sure we (a) laughed (b) got taught some zen messages and (c) laughed more and uh...(d) learned how to juggle in groups. *g*
It did seem to work though. People who never talk to one another did, we played and laughed together (as in tears of laughter and fighting for breath laughter) and I think most people came out of it with an upbeat attitude.
The messages which came out of the conference were about finding the fun in work (heh...well as the guy leading workshop in the afternoon said - we spend 60% of our lives at work - do you want to be miserable or do you want to have a good time?), diffusing stress with laughter and playing together (and that looks way more dirty typed out than when someone says it in a seminar)!
There was also much talk of "being in the moment" (told you - zen!) and attitude readjustment (the only thing you can be 100% in control of is your reaction to a situation - so why choose to be miserable when there are alternatives).
If anyone needs a great speaker to get their conference off to a bang may I suggest (in the absence of such luminaries as Jonathan Woodward and Neil Roberts and a few bottles of whisky to provide a Communion *g*) to direct their attention to Kate Hull Rogers?
So yes dahlings. I am back and I am adjusting my attitude. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. Things will be hairy on the work front for a while but I shall endeavour not to bore myself rigid, and you silly, with whining any more. Assuming there are any of you left and I'm not just yelling into the void. *g*
From now on I am going to live in the moment and be happy because, damn it, life is far too short for anything else. Which was a lesson I learned in 2002, but somehow I lost my grasp on those two tenets of faith.
*makes with the grabby hands*
There will be some fannish posts shortly. *beams*
