Venkata Kalluri_BLP010_Self Leadership_September 2012

In fact every trimester beginning, I have this wonderful opportunity to attend the class on Self Leadership. Anil sir has begun the class by showing us a video of “Things to do before I die” and the video showed clippings of people around the world writing down their dreams, tasks they want to do before they die. This video raked in me my finest of aspirations/dreams of writing a book and hope I will take up that task at some point of time.

            Class shared their feelings on losing our dear class mates and we felt that it’s just their physical presence we are going to miss and the moments were emotional. Few of them shared their feelings and it’s a fact that we are going to pass away some day. I felt that one should be content with what one is having and should seek happiness in that.

            We understood the difference between the words empathy and sympathy and the activity of getting into another shoes by putting/without putting the shoes clearly demonstrated it. 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.

At the end of the day we could feel the positive vibes around us as our strengths were unleashed by this process. We learnt that we should express warmth not only by our words but also through our eyes and body language. We felt the Synergy with us and class ended up with our feelings shared. The class has filled in us the inspiration and energies to take up the new beginning.