Sunday, March 15, 2009

QUEST 2009 Day Two

Don't worry; I'm not going to take you through all the days! It's just that the blog only allows me to post so few pictures each time, and I have so many that I want to share. Every day at Quest centered around a different element of the spiritual disciplines and problem solving. Day Two's theme was "Personality and Teams: Celebrating our Diversity". We had all taken the Myers-Briggs Personality Test before coming, and days Two and Three would center on those results. On this day we explored our different personality types from the 4 characteristics and then moved right into what they bring to a team--some good and some not so good things. We were given tasks to work out with mixed teams and then with teams who had each had the same dominant personality characteric. Working with fellow "feelers" or fellow "thinkers" was so much easier than the diversified teams, but couldn't give near the complete balance a mixed team could. It was a day full of much laughter as we looked at ourselves and each other in a new way and realized just how creative our God is!
Day Three was centered on overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of Teams, still working from our Myers-Briggs test results. Day Four took us in seemingly another direction altogether as we learned how to journal our life story, but since all the themes of this QUEST were helping us learn who we were as individuals and how we work with others it dovetailed right in with the rest of the days. CAM will change it's structure April 1st from hierarchical to team and QUEST was built around helping the missionaries work through the change. Please pray for CAM as the change process.

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