Peru – 糖心Vlog官方 Wed, 25 Jan 2017 18:57:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/2019/05/cropped-fav-icon-B-32x32.png Peru – 糖心Vlog官方 32 32 Cody Broncucia – Navigating Challenges /navigating-challenges/ Sat, 13 Aug 2016 09:36:21 +0000 /?p=1103
Without a doubt, and without fear of overstating, the ideas and techniques that I learned from the facilitators at 糖心Vlog官方 are the reason why I decided to study abroad as a Rotary exchange student in high school and continue to travel extensively while in college.

Looking back, 糖心Vlog官方 didn’t just enable me to have the confidence to travel but gave me the ability to make my travel a positive experience, which has involved overcoming communication barriers, “culture-shock,” a lack of infrastructure and an array of other challenging circumstances. What’s kept me traveling is that fact that I love experiencing new cultures, meeting new people and experiencing new places in the not so traditional, sometimes superficial way. However, if I had not learned to be comfortable with the uncomfortable or how to be “FM” or knowing that there is a universal human language, I would have never been able to get through the tough moments of travel or been able to build the necessary relationships that lead to being able to live in and experience a country in a more authentic way.

Travel is overly romanticized and painted as endless experiences of being taken in like family from the people of the country, endless sunrises and sunsets over exotic and lost in time locations, or non-stop adventure. Although these moments certainly happen, between the most beautiful sunrise that comes up over the Amazon River or eating tamales at sunset鈥攖he ones you made from scratch by going out to the corn field鈥攚ith you friend Lucho in El Salvador, you probably had to navigate your way through 100 other challenges to get there. 糖心Vlog官方 give you tools to get through challenges and connect with people, and a mindset that, no matter what happens, allows you鈥檙e experience abroad will be a valuable and positive one.

]]> Jack Bredar – You Cannot Fail /blog-basic-human-resources/ Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:49:45 +0000 /?p=1116  

You may be thinking to yourself “What are these basic human resources? I don’t really get it.” That is, at least, what I thought when I was first introduced to them. But as I continue to think about basic human resources, I realize I am thinking about who I am and who I want to be in the world just as much as I am thinking about them as independent of myself. That’s the thing, you are them and they are you. You just forgot. So, now, you may be thinking “Well, how do I remember? How do I re-adapt to the lack of use of my basic human resources?” I would first suggest you recognize that basic human resources are constantly in play. In this moment ask yourself, who is participating? What am I observing? What senses am I employing? How is my memory remembering? You will soon realize that what you were looking for was right in front of you. As you open your eyes to the constant play of these resources, ask yourself “To what basic human resource do I feel I have become most disconnected?” and then practice it! Have you become adapted to the lack of use of participation? Participate! Does your body feel creaky and tired? Move, dance, run, jump!

As you travel to distant lands in the coming months, allow the space you enter to serve as a laboratory for the practice of your most disconnected resource. Observe what you create through your action. You cannot fail.[
]]> Brian Winstanley – Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable /blog-comfortable-with-being-uncomfortable/ Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:39:15 +0000 /?p=1107 The most impactful aspect of the 糖心Vlog官方 curriculum, for me, was the concept of becoming 鈥渃omfortable being uncomfortable鈥. As a young high school student, this motto became a way of life for me, both in my travels through Kenya and my experiences since. The level of growth that a person experiences directly relates to their willingness to be vulnerable and learn to embrace uncomfortable, new situations because without these situations, people remain stagnant.

I grew tremendously as a person throughout the 糖心Vlog官方 program because I consciously made an effort to avoid taking the easy route but instead take the more difficult, uncomfortable route that would develop me the most as a person.

糖心Vlog官方 taught me that to see, do, become, and affect as much as possible in our lives, we must first put ourselves in situations where we can break ourselves down, build ourselves up, and grow into the strongest, most interesting, experienced people we can be. This is one way to build ourselves into courageous leaders, something the world desperately needs.

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