SomeThoughtsAboutCommunicationCamps

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Some thoughts about communication camps

It seems a long way back to 1987 and the first communication camp I took part to, but a short way from these communication camps to my every day life.

The first and important experiance in a communication camp was my nomination to the camp's PR-leader. An important task that demanded some thinking and organizing of oneself is talent. It was a simple pleasure to introduce our camp to the visitors. For to win my stage ear was just enought to carry the title of PR-leader.

Especially this first camp has been important to my evolution. There I unconciously understood the meaning of assumming responsaibility and through years its meaning has slowly brightened up to me. Charging my place from being lead to be a leader did only clarify to me how important it is to get to carry responsibility in a tolerant and encouraging athmosphere.

When talking about communication camp experiences I would rather talk about emotional experiences. If these camps were an object to me it would be a mirror that through an individual reflects light and energy to its surroundings. When I close my eyes and think about communication camps I see yellow colour and hear the word feeling. Only faraway I see the decor: computers, cattles, phones, tents, mosquitos...

The yellow colour stands for warmth and courage (only a few dare to dress in pure yellow). And that is what these camps are about, dressing in yellow-winning oneself, and warmth – the reflect of the yellow to its environment.

Being in the camp is also learning to cope with other people. Planning projects together and putting them to an end together. These experiences tought me that in life you are mostly dealing with relationships. Briefly: we have to be individual, we don´t have to like everything and everyone, but we have to cope together.

Nadja Delcos