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I came along to the JCI Fingal training day because it seems well organised, and interesting and affordable. That was my first event with JCI and it went beyond my expectations. At the end of the day we manage to fulfil it agreeably by meeting new people, learning to be aware of our senses and intellectual faculties to take conscious control of our thinking and therefore our life, improve our trading skills and know better how works JCI….All in one day, all extremely enjoyable.
Thanks again to all the JCI Members and Directors that contributed to this successful day.

JCI FINGAL Training Day Summary
Saturday the 8th of September 2007,
Grand Hotel Malahide from 10.30am - 4pm

The Agenda was as follow:

I came along because it seems well organised, interesting, and affordable. It was a way for me to make sure JCI could meet my expectations of learning new things, meet interesting people and contribute to a better society via community and business projects.

That was my first ever event with JCI and it went beyond my expectations. It was great and I kept thinking joyfully about it the day after and still now. The BBQ hosted by Graham later on in the evening was definitely a delicious cherry topping an already excellent cake.

Back to the training, once I found the room booked for JCI in the basement (seem a bit gloomy but it was of very good standard and bright as well), I had to push myself to talk to yet unknown people in order to fulfil a questionnaire Órla gave me in exchange of a modest amount of €20 covering the day’s cost.
With questions like who’s vegetarian or who’s from Munster I had to go to these strangers and find out! Since I did not want to write down names I did not know, I had to introduce myself and gain the right of putting my new acquaintance’s names down on my paper. Well, my efforts could have been rewarded by winning the promise prize (a bottle of champagne awarded at the end of the day) but luck decided otherwise and Kevin was the lucky winner. Well done!

Then, the serious stuff started out with an excellent and inspiring presentation from Evelyn Cormican. Evelyn introduced us the basic of success in life and how our positive thinking could lead us to better results. By being aware of our conscious and unconscious mind and intellectual faculties, we can definitely act upon turning positively our feeling.
In short:

The first step is to have an attitude of gratitude and from then on let the law of attraction come into play…

After this inspirational training, it was time to play a little. So Eugene Garvin introduced us to the WORLD TRADE GAME which was developed by JCI for JCI. The purpose of this game is to learn/plan/work as a team/negotiate and trade/review and re plan/compete/strategise and form alliances. Eugene split the group into teams of 2, each representing a country with its own natural resources and targets to meet.
The game was set up prior to lunch then we broke for a nice pub lunch and back to business around 2 o’clock. After 2 rounds of much negotiation and trading as well as some confusion, MEXICO (Órla & Brian’s team) did realise the most important growth and won this very interesting game.

Then, Daragh (JCI Cobh) offered us a seminar on what is JCI and how we could ‘sell’ it when meeting new people. I think for me this session was the most instructive because I had still no idea why JCI should be so special and why I should committed to it. Daragh split the group in 4 so each group could work on the 4 areas of opportunities within JCI. I have listed below some key words from our brainstorming workshop:

And that was how we manage to fulfil agreeably a day at JCI Fingal meeting new people, learning to be aware of ours senses and faculties to take conscious control of our thinking and therefore our life, improve our trading skills and know better how to make JCI work for us….All in one day, all extremely enjoyable. Thanks again to all the JCI Members and Directors that contributed to this successful day.