Whole class was filled with deep remorse due
to an unfortunate tragedy which happened just a week before the leadership
session conducted by Mr. Anil Sachdeva.
Standing
united as a close knit family in this tough situation only gave us courage to
come back to normal routine with mixed emotions.
Session started with little
light thrown on emotion and why are they considered so vital in life.
Emotion is often associated
and considered reciprocally influential with mood, temperament, personality, disposition and motivation. Emotion is the driving
force behind motivation, positive or negative.
Among the groups, we tried
to recapitulate our view on emotions about recent tragedy & how we managed
to accept that cruel truth. All of us narrowed our thinking to single view
“life is unpredictable” & we are too small in front of the great power that
drives the universe. Hence, we must try to live “life to the fullest” each
moment, instead of tormenting about small things in life.
We were given opportunity to see a wonderful video of a
woman, who lost her beloved in sudden event, but still learnt to live her life.
She writes her wish on the wall as “one thing I wish to do, before I die”,
where many people share their wishes and this activity helps them express their
inner feelings. This shows that expressing most important work helps in
remembering it from time to time & staying focused towards attainment of that
wish.
Later on we were explicated the ability of deep
listening. We should have the curiosity of a child when we are listening to
others. We need to understand properly what the speaker is telling. Also we
need to make the speaker feel comfortable and with our body language and
gestures we need to make him understand that we are following whatever he is
trying to convey. We must also paraphrase whatever he has told over a period of
time and repeat it.
We
were explained that emotional quotient depend on various factors viz listening,
empathy, patience, respect, genuineness & warmth. The session progressed
ahead with concept of empathy and sympathy. The sympathy (Sym=with) means
understanding the position of other person or being along with other person.
While empathy (Em=into) means accepting the uniqueness of the other person by
wearing his shoes.
Then
we underwent the Appreciative Inquiry process where in each student was paired
with another student and we did put the questionnaire such as when was one at
his/her best, what happened during the process, who were involved in the
process, what was the ambience around and how was the experience. Surprisingly
we came to know a lot many hidden qualities of our fellow mates which we never
knew before and in a way understood each other in a much better way.
The
session ends with a beautiful video on Mathieu Ricard, the happiest man in the
world sharing his views on happiness.
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