Certainty and Uncertainly

I am a person who tend to take things for granted. Today a Work Cafe poked me in my head that I should not let this flaw of mine overpower me. At 1:20 pm after celebrating my son’s birthday, I went to the Work Café -- 在不確定的年代展現生命力 Thriving on Uncertainty: the possible future" (想像台灣系列的）引導性的活動. When Kate told me about this program held by 朝邦文教基金會, I was attracted by the topic. Usually my Sundays should be spent at home or out with my family, and getting refreshed and recharged for the upcoming work. Yet keeping abreast with new input from others or thought-provoking activities is same important especially when Taiwan, actually the whole world is tormented by economical crises now. It is a truly timely and worth discussing issue.

The head of the board of 朝邦文教基金會 is George Yen, former Director of T/Ms International. Together with Jorie Wu, former District Governor, and their family T/Ms, they have held a lot of significant programs to benefit the society. We must pay our highest admiration to them on the vision they have.

As I expected I saw a lot of familiar faces from T/Ms. Yet I saw more from different job fields, even from different cities. When I arrived, most of the seats were already occupied. All the participants weregrouped in four. I searched for Kate, there she was, yet her table was full. Lydia hadn’t shown up. So I sat at an empty table. I knew there would be some late comers to fill the empty seats. As expected, the three empty seats were taken before the formal discussion began. The kind of way they ran the Work Café was not new to me. The facilitators guided us to go throughdiscussion and sharing. Participants moved from one table to another when a new topic was given leaving the host of the table to guard the fort. We were given three topics. Each topic had sub-topics under it. We spent around 20 – 30 mind to talk about each topic. Volunteers from different groups gave a report.

I saw all the participants were so much .in the discussion, enthusiastically and earnestly sharing their thoughts with others. And some words given were quite philosophic. It would definitely be a good book gathering all the insightful perceptions. When all the discussions were over, we sat in a big circle. The microphone was circulated around for everyone to conclude what they gained from the Work Café. The program concluded on time, 5:00 pm sharp.

After greeting some more friends that I didn’t have the chance to do during the program, Kate, Lydia and I left together. Must say it was a very successful Work Café. Around 70 – 80 people joined. A stack of paper with lots, lots of ideas written on will definitely take朝邦文教基金會much work to get it compiled. I am optimistic and certain that with all the love and care we have toward the planet we can surely make the world a better place to live in.

Trini

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