Photos From Team Leaders Retreat
ServiceSpace
--Audrey Lin
2 minute read
Sep 16, 2014

 

ServiceSpace ecosystem is a vibrant space of service. :) Every second, 2 inspiring emails are sent out. Every hour, 14 thousand people interact with our content. Every day, 400 smile cards are shipped out globally. Every week, hundreds will meet Awakin Circles around the world. Every month, 5 thousand people will join ServiceSpace. Every year, we’ll be invited to speak to fifty thousand people. Collectively, it is building up an engagement spectrum and last week, we held our annual Team Leaders retreat (alongside a few guests of honor and couple of Service Fellows) -- and as always, it was a powerful time together.  Legendary activist Mark Dubois called it "one of the most powerful experiences of my life."

In between John's opening ceremony that evoked our place in the cosmos and Priscilla's graceful closing bows that dissolved us into deep interconnection, we spoke about "seven circles" of the engagement spectrum, thought deeply about the shifts of inner transformation and sacred service, brainstormed ways to nurture volunteer journeys, explored edges along the way, and heard stories from the heart. We laughed and danced and cried and hugged and flowed. Mark's morning hikes (and hugs!), Yoo-Mi's hand-embroidered signs, Sam's hand-drawn cards (with painstaking thumbtack perforations), Guri's hand-painted stones. Unending secret tags, group hugs, deep conversations. In circles big and small, in 1:1 interactions, in speech and in silence, our kindred spirits connected and reconnected. Our noble ties deepened. Our minds grew more quiet, our hearts more clear, and our hands readier than ever to serve. We felt the privilege to have an opportunity to be of service in such a sincere context.

Below are some of the unsorted photos :) ... 

     

 

Posted by Audrey Lin on Sep 16, 2014


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