Future II in Fürstenfeld, April, 2nd to 5th

Last weekend Future II Conference took place in Fürstenfeld and for sure also LC Graz was quite well represented. Although it was hard to say with how many people – starting with about 15 on Thursday up to about 30 on Saturday plus minus some random party delegates…
Nevertheless LC Graz rocked the house! :) We broke the tradition from the last conferences with kind of feeling ashamed for our role call because this time we had a really cool one (“We are green, we are white, we are Styrian dynamite…!”). At parties we were present with outstanding costumes and won even one award!! And in general I dare to say that we were the delegation with the highest motivation from all. So conference feeling was really great.

Facis had put a lot of effort in preparation and so we could enjoy some interesting, challenging and also entertaining sessions. Joining the Leadership track I found out some new things concerning for example which leadership style I am, which tools I can use as team leader and so on. And we spent the whole day of Saturday to see what is going on now in AIESEC in Austria, which areas (definitely) need improvement, why they need it and how we can achieve this. In this context one of the most interesting and memorable sessions was “Questioning”. We got the question: “What stands between us and greatness?” and had to go on asking questions for a whole while until in the end we had about 400 of them. The special aspect of this task was to leave the pressure of finding an answer always and for everything but just to ask whatever comes into your mind and what is the absolute contrary of what we get taught in our society. In the end we all agreed that you learn more by looking at the question than by learning the answer.
About the other tracks I can’t say that much because unfortunately I could attend just one… but from Induction track I know for example that many of our delegates enjoyed the simulation sessions a lot and that Exchangers had some funny games and found that whatever happens you should ask Carlos! (For better explanation, please ask them! ;))

But what we all did together was PARTYING! On Thursday in Rocky Horror Picture Show style, on Friday in PJs or as traffic lights and on Saturday multicultural (Global Village) and “Futuramic”. And there really must be mentioned that Graz did a great job at the Boat Race, also the winner team (the Ps) included two of us! :) Congratulations Rainer and Stefan!
And then there were still many other things making this conference so enjoyable: A cool OC ;), perfect weather to even have breakfast outside, an inspiring chair, motivated delegates who contributed a lot, etc.

So all this bigger and smaller factors together created a comfortable atmosphere full of energy and motivation to develop and enable the development of others… Bla bla, I know. ;) But what I really want to say is that all people whom I talked to about the conference, told me that they liked it very much. Many of them even a lot more than expected. And I want to say that I am really happy that I was part of LC Graz delegation because I got so much out of this conference that I almost can’t believe it. And a big part of this was thanks to being with you, enjoying it together (and doing crazy stuff)!

In my opinion we soon should attend the next conference together! :)

On Saturday, 17th of January, 16 interested, engaged and motivated people participated in the workshop “We eat the world?!” organised by the CSR Team and held by Südwind (Renate Sova from Südwind Vienna to be exact ;-))
We spent a great day, getting to know new people, opinions, ideas and visions, talking about “Food” in all it’s numerous facets and sustainability in general. In addition, we were provided with some facts about the topic and the possibilities to get more actively engaged (in Südwind, for example, or in Rudi’s planned new NGO, and of course in Aiesec… ;-))
All the day was so fun and interesting everyone was surprised that 7 hours had passed so quickly…
And one thing is for sure: CSR Team will be back with other great stuff soon!!!

Communication Teambuilding

Yesterday, communication team had a really cool teambuilding. Starting at 14:00 we spent the whole day and also a big part of the night together.
Through various games and tasks, we got to know each other even better than before and created a strong team spirit among us.
After the official part of the teambuilding (thanx to Stefan Moll and Matthias Kahr), we went to Zeppelin and reflected about what a cool team we are and how much we love each other :D
Afterwards, we went back to office to watch "Hide and Seek", but unfortunately it didnt work, so we decided to watch "Mirrors". But as Luci and Sofie werent able to watch such cruel things (after 2 minutes :)), Markus introduced us to another "great and special" movie called "Dänische Delikatessen". Hmmm.... strange but interesting. The story is about butchery in Denmark and crazy people eating other crazy people. We really recommend it to everyone!!
The right Communication guy :)
Luci: "For leading a team of 4 different people, its really important to get to know all of them from different sites. Not only as a teammember and AIESECer, but also as a "normal" person. This day helped a lot to see that also when we all are different, we can learn from each other and behave as a one strong team. We built a spirit among us and I hope every other team will use this opportunity from TM-Team to have a teambuilding!"

Stefan: "On Saturday we had our first communication team building. I think it was well spenf time because it helped a lot to improve our team spirit. Through several games and tasts, we got to know each other better than before. Personally I really enjoyed thes team building, it was a great time and also a very interesting team experience."

Sofie: "Our Teambuliding was an enriching experience that gave us the chance to grow together as a team. Honestly, before I attended my first teambuilding, I was quite sure that such games are not very senseful and time could be used more effectively and in a more result-orientated way. But as I experienced the great amount of motivation and team spirit that comes out of it, it turned out to be time that was not wasted but very well invested. And in this respect, I recommend to every team to use that offering!"

Bernhard: "Teambuilding is a great opportunity to get to know my team members better. This is a great basis for working together more efficiently. And most important, it was a great afternoon thanks to Stefan and Matthias."