Name: Thomas
Age: 29/30 (birthday the 5th of April, Red.)
Participated in Leadership Seminar:
2004 (participant), facilitator (2006).
What work camp experience do you have?
I have lead a workcamp in Tingbjerg in 2004, trying to give ethnic minority kids a positive relation to the adults. Last year I lead a camp in Iceland. It had two projects. Developing and assisting the work in a cultural festival and renovation of a public garden - in a small town of 400 people in North Iceland.
How did you experience being a work camp leader?
Age: 29/30 (birthday the 5th of April, Red.)
Participated in Leadership Seminar:
2004 (participant), facilitator (2006).
What work camp experience do you have?
I have lead a workcamp in Tingbjerg in 2004, trying to give ethnic minority kids a positive relation to the adults. Last year I lead a camp in Iceland. It had two projects. Developing and assisting the work in a cultural festival and renovation of a public garden - in a small town of 400 people in North Iceland.
How did you experience being a work camp leader?
I find it a very effective tool of making a difference in the people’s life. Making social change on a mini scale. Personally I get a lot of feedback on my leaderships, so I learned a lot about myself and how I work with other people.
What did you gain from being a work camp leader?
It’s a lot of fun. You meet people you would never meet in your everyday life, and expands your horizon. You get to appreciate the diversity of people, being forced to co-operate and appreciate people you wouldn’t choose to normally. This builds you as a person.
Which challenges did you face being a work camp leader?
The biggest challenge is meeting people’s expectations. People have very different expectations that you need to negociate, to make a common understanding of what we are doing. Getting the skills to be able to listen to people’s motivations and to prevent conflicts. There have been challenging conflicts in both my workcamps concerning this.
Do you have any advice for future work camp leaders?
First of all, Go for it! You’ll learn a lot from doing it. Focus a lot on what people’s expectations are. In the end you can cope with all challenges, and get through the most crazy things, I survived the two people from Ghana who left the camp overnight and never surfaced again, and the anarkistic Ameriacan woman who didn’t believe in leadership and challenged our authority.
If you could choose to be burried alive under a cross-road or had your head hacked off by a war axe, what would you choose?
To get my head cut off. Its a faster way to go. The other way would be a slow and painfull death.
Your unique skill of being a leader?
I guess I’m really good at paying attention and listening to people’s needs. On the other hand I am good at inspiring other people and motivating them for a common goal.
What did you gain from being a work camp leader?
It’s a lot of fun. You meet people you would never meet in your everyday life, and expands your horizon. You get to appreciate the diversity of people, being forced to co-operate and appreciate people you wouldn’t choose to normally. This builds you as a person.
Which challenges did you face being a work camp leader?
The biggest challenge is meeting people’s expectations. People have very different expectations that you need to negociate, to make a common understanding of what we are doing. Getting the skills to be able to listen to people’s motivations and to prevent conflicts. There have been challenging conflicts in both my workcamps concerning this.
Do you have any advice for future work camp leaders?
First of all, Go for it! You’ll learn a lot from doing it. Focus a lot on what people’s expectations are. In the end you can cope with all challenges, and get through the most crazy things, I survived the two people from Ghana who left the camp overnight and never surfaced again, and the anarkistic Ameriacan woman who didn’t believe in leadership and challenged our authority.
If you could choose to be burried alive under a cross-road or had your head hacked off by a war axe, what would you choose?
To get my head cut off. Its a faster way to go. The other way would be a slow and painfull death.
Your unique skill of being a leader?
I guess I’m really good at paying attention and listening to people’s needs. On the other hand I am good at inspiring other people and motivating them for a common goal.
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