A few days of intense sessions – both 1:1 and group board meetings.
It is about pushing your boundaries, facing your fears and stress head on, and improving.
Alex Avanthe, I’m blessed to be connected and working with him. He’s running his practice “Outcalm.com” to help business owners to use calmness as a strategic advantage.
In addition, he’s also our communications advisor at Hamza and Loadpipe – our decom marketplace and ecosystem.
To say the least, he’s helped coordinate when we have been teambuilding and under high pressure situations during this early stage startup.
So while he is in town for the Loadpipe Foundation board meeting, we had a 1:1 session to deal with stress and overwhelm – and convert that into calmness and a strategic advantage.
Thursday Sept 5, 2024 – a full day of this – starting with post it notes of anything on my mind. Big or small, what is on my mind – write it down and put it up on the glass wall.
Afterwards, we grouped it up into themes, family, projects, skills, people. A major one is people. Discussions, negotiations, situations, with many different people.
He then asked me to put those which are more urgent / important to me and put them in a new area in the room.
Pretty raw when you dive deep, dig deep into what matters in your life. And oftentimes, the things that matter you are not putting enough attention to. Won’t get into the personal details but can say it is a priceless exercise we all should go through.
After this workshop, we had a team meeting – dinner – Indian food. The team is getting excited for the Hamza marketplace launch – the world’s first decom (decentralized ecommerce) marketplace coming in the end of September / Early October – hamza.market
We also got to enjoy a toast of wine to wrap up the evening, and prepare for the next.
Friday sept 6 we had a board meeting. Alex prepared and coordinated this one as well.
Day 2 – Alex did a teambuilding workshop for the board members
Another intensive day of laying out what we are trying to accomplish, communicating, and alignment.
Start with Why! We went into why are we making Hamza, the world’s first decom marketplace.
Starting with our own values and the reasons each of us are making this system – it is to change the game.
A little bit of heated moments but that is normal and healthy, we came out of this session a stronger team.
Wrapping Up Day 3 at a Onsen, Ice Bath, and Pool day
Third day of intensive workshops and teambuilding was a bit more relaxed. Wanted to take the kids but they are sick – so I header down to Looper pool in Chiang Mai to spend the day. Others on the wider Hamza team came, and we had some kids and others there.
This was the decompress time. Some had still various thoughts on the product and launch for Hamza, but most of it was just team building, and relaxing.
What an intense few days. I am typing this up Sunday morning and trying to decompress.
But this felt like a massive level up for the team and systems.