A first for everything

We have concluded another eventful Monthly Empowerment Meeting on 29 September 2020.

Did you know that all of us at Women of Courage Asia have been longing for this day to come? And when it came, we were met with so many interesting challenges. Of course, as our founder has always said, we learn from reflections.

Here are some of my thoughts

A NEW NORM
Accepting a new norm – new way of life, new ways of doing things, etc – is what we have gotten used to.

Even as we are so happy to be able to meet our community in-person, we are still faced with restrictions such as social distancing. Yet, we are unfazed by challenges. We looked forward to having our onsite meeting, finally, and happy to see every one coming together to learn and have a good time!

Additionally, our Zoom meeting was still very much ALIVE!!! Thanks to the Zoom crew who held the fort, our online participants received every moment of our onsite and online learnings and fun.

EVER READY
Well, needless to say, what can go wrong, will go wrong. No matter how much we had anticipated during our dry run, we will not be able to escape the “unforeseen circumstances”.

Our main speaker, Community Leader Alverna Cher, had to attend to a personal family matter.
Because of this change, the technical support team had to quickly come up with solutions to carry our tasks as smoothly as possible
We were not that familiar with the sound system so every disruptions, additional “sound” baffled us

OUR INCREDIBLE SPEAKERS
Regardless what the day had thrown at us, the “show” must go on and it did.

Alverna shared her expertise via Zoom and got us to create content to be posted on our social media immediately. Experiential learning at its best! She is generous in sharing her three tips with us to help the community to improve their personal development journey. Always a cheerful and positive leader, Alverna went through her segment with calm and joy.

Sharing our Story of Courage is never an easy feat and we applaud our Community Leader, Lisa Chong, we took her step of Courage and shared the most traumatic part of her journey. Crushed but not beaten, she fought her way out of the valley and went on to establish Stillen Maternity – a business that she is very passionate and proud of.

DISTANCE IS NOT A PROBLEM
Whether on Zoom or onsite, we made the best of what we have and what we can do. Our participants, both online and onsite, were able to partake of fun games, experiential learning and sharing their reflections in small groups & breakout rooms.

We learn from reflection and we will do it better next time.

Do come and join us for our next Monthly Empowerment Meeting to learn from a successful influencer and be inspired by our next Story of Courage.

With Courage

Julia Chong