I’ll tell ya, we had a great staff retreat. Although I thought it was a bit much to make us eat cookies on every break for two days. What? Oh… someone just told me they didn’t “make” us eat cookies. Okay then why did I eat handfuls of delectable homemade spelt-flour cookies on every break the first day? Why did I drink so much of the beneficial Urth Caffe organic coffee…if that wasn’t part of the plan?!
They also gave us meals in between the cookies. On that first day I ate a huge breakfast, an outstanding lunch of probably 40 short-ribs (Paul Kaye and Juan Roberto Schultz had more), and a sensible dinner. Yeah, sensible for an antelope! Okay! Finally, on the second day I had learned my lesson and gotten my wits about me and just ate as if it was for a single person. Actually I could not have eaten again like I did the first day, as I was still bloated, and the fullish feeling from the day before had not subsided.
What were they trying to do to us having two days of the best food, in this luxurious mansion, lots of breaks to schmooze with our fellow staffers, incredible sharings with John Morton, mellow taped J-R meditations, and investigations into how we could make 2006 even better? Why was our facilitator David Bransky his usual smooth and super facilitating-self if not to lull us into eating?
Staff can put it away boy. I also enjoyed the berry crumble Friday night with the ice cream, as well as some of the parts when we talked about work. Especially the part when we threw stuffed animals at each other while we talked about work. That was interesting, and I think we should do more of it next year if we (meaning I) can just stop eating cookies for a minute.
So if you like cookies and you like to serve and you have a chance to be on staff for any of our organizations I’d say go for it! And Happy New Year everybody!
