What is a leader?

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After experiencing our amazing first Shabbaton together, we were finally back for another exciting workshop!
               
To start we had a hilarious icebreaker where we had to introduce our Israeli counterparts without stuttering, umming or erring. It may seem simple but it seemed no one could complete their full introduction without an um or an err. It was a great way to start as everyone was laughing uncontrollably and got comfortable within minutes!

Following this,  we had Nadia and Dahlia lead our Peer led sessions, which are always interesting and fun, and they didn’t disappoint! Each person was given 4 sticky notes on which they had to devote two to fun things that happened in December and two fun things that happened in January. When that was completed we moved to the other side of the room where a circle divided into two, for the two months, were set out. Each person stuck their two pieces of notes in their respective months and in the end there was a perfect circle full of sticky notes with each persons exhilarating holiday experiences. We then discussed what we thought about our holidays and why we had put them down. Overall it was a great activity and everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy it.
 
Leading on from there, we had a notable guest speaker by the name of Edwin Black, which in the short time he had, told us about the history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Black had quite a one sided approach that caused a lot of us to question what we believed. In the short time that he spoke to us, he was able to convey his very authoritative opinion, that some of us agreed with while some of us didn’t. All on in all I think it was a great learning curve for us all and displayed to us some views that we possibly haven’t seen or experienced before.

Continuing on from the speaker, we were led through the corridors one at a time with our books and pens in hand looking at some very inspirational leadership quotes with very meaningful questions accompanying them. There were many a question that looked at a wide range of what leadership means, why people choose to lead and what makes people a great leader. The quotes that were on display were from famous leaders round the world to emphasize the importance of what they were saying. We finished off by coming back into the main room and all answering the question of “what kind of leader do you want to be” on one page.

We finally finished off a great session by looking at the future events on the calendar and briefly talking about what each of us will have to do to contribute to our next Shabbaton were we help organize it.

Until next time! 

-Aaron



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