Imagine on Day-1 being equipped and set free in a foreign city with the task of navigating the local public transport system and finding your way to a series of sites where you will learn and grow as you’re inducted into the new context. Every day of your trip is designed to be fun, engaging, personally challenging and, most of all, a time to develop signficant insights while making some new friends.
The Leadership Journey experience will engage all your senses while stretching your comfort zones at the same time. Our facilitators are careful to immerse you into your new context only to the extent that you are comfortable. There are a number of debrief and peer coaching mechanisms that we use to ensure that you are not in this wonderful new experience alone. We will establish, right at the start, some frameworks to assist you to understand the cultural differences that may confront you and to help you manage your own reaction and ongoing health in the process.
For us at Aafia, your physical and psychological well-being is paramount. So is your enjoyment of new tastes, sights, smells and language, customs, relationships and travel experiences. For example, on a number of our trips we are able to offer you a village stay option where you can spend a night and a day in the company of a local family. This is an opportunity to build a relationship, participate in the lives of the local community and experience the project you are visiting at the most fundamental level. If that is too steep a curve for you we have a range of other options to help you engage with the local community.