Alpha Leadership Bootcamp 2

After the outdoor adventure day, we were all pretty exhausted so not many of us joined the meditation in the evening.

Day 5: Photoreading

In day 5, the things didn't turn as expected. Due to the fact that in the previous days we covered anticipation and alignment, in day 5 we thought we would discuss about action. What we did, was photoreading, similar to speed reading.David, the trainer told us about different techniques so as to photoread properly, all of them mentioned in the book Photoreading, 3rd Edition. Some of these techniques were skimming the book with no purpuse at first, then just  looking at the pages with defocused vision so that the subconscious mind would perceive part of the information although we did not realise, and in the end just picturing the book line by line, whilst not hearing what we read inside our heads.

Day 6: Action

Finally, the last chapter, ACTION. After the regular morning exercise, we entered the training room and the trainer, Cristian, started a very nice talk about how each of the four types of intelligence (IQ - Mental Intelligence, EQ - Emotional Intelligence, FQ - Physical Intelligence, SQ - Spiritual Intelligence) match the neurological levels.

Cristi and me

After the break, we discussed the importance of mindmapping, due to the fact that it helps a lot to categorize different actions to be done in a precise way, thus simplifying thing a lot. Everynody knows that we can find something easier in a logically structured place than in a total mess up. That also applies to the human mind.

In the end we covered time management, because it represents a problem for many of us.

When the night finally had fallen, we went outside and enjoyed the camp fire. We also learned how to breathe fire. It helped, because it is useful to overcome fears. At the end we revealed our secret frientd's identity (the secret friend was a person that we had to secretly take care of during the entire period we stayed there).

Breathing fire

Here we were searching for constelations

Because we were accompanied by a romanian pop singer, from aband called Hi-Q, I had the inspiration to make him a surprise by asking the DJ to put some of his music. We all enjoyed it and Mihai's presence.

Day 7: Departure

Well, before leaving, we had a last training session so as to integrate all concepts learned into one. Andy, the trainer, also gave us some usefull pieces of advice to follow when we would have gotten back into "the real world". Now we are meeting weekly in Bucharest, but unfortunatelly I couldn't atend any of the meetings until now. Hope I would be able next week :D

If you want to join us next year, you are welcome and you can find further information on http://alphaleaders.ro/. These were the last 3 days at the bootcamp. For the first four of them go here.

See you soon :D