Quantum Leaps in Leadership
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This workshop will help Rotarians reintegrate outbound exchange students into their local communities after their overseas experience, and provide ways to identify the profound meaning and lessons learned from this important experience. Facilitator: Elaine Hernandez
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- 1. 2018 YEO Preconvention Quantum Leaps in Leadership Reflection on the Year Abroad Elaine Hernandez, PhD Assistant Governor, Area 11 - District 5930 South Texas, USA June 22, 2018
- 2. 2018 YEO Preconvention Fear not the unknown journey as you cross a ranging river on a narrow footbridge and leap into your destiny. Embrace the opportunity to carve out your own pathway and discover your potential. With faith and boldness, you will bridge the unfamiliar gap and achieve the quantum leap to fulfillment. Elaine Hernandez, PhD 100 Women 100 Words Honduras 2008
- 3. 2018 YEO Preconvention Elaine Dove 1970-1971 First Outbound Exchange Student sent from the Brantford Rotary Club (Canada) to Hermosillo (Mexico)
- 4. 2018 YEO Preconvention Dr. Elaine Hernandez - 2018 Recipient of the “Global Impact” Award for the Americas
- 5. 2018 YEO Preconvention How do you get from Rotary Youth Exchange Student to PhD and Global Impact Award? THEN……. NOW……Quantum Leap What skills, knowledge and experiences were acquired during the exchange year that led to today’s success?
- 6. 2018 YEO Preconvention “Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience” (Kolb, 1984, p. 38). Kolb's experiential learning style theory [Source: https://www.simplypsychology.org/learning-kolb.html]
- 7. 2018 YEO Preconvention Hostess 1976 Olympics - Canada
- 8. 2018 YEO Preconvention Mr. & Mrs. Hernandez Mexico 1976
- 9. 2018 YEO Preconvention Fulbright Scholarship - Guatemala 2000
- 10. 2018 YEO Preconvention Team Leader – Group Study Exchange to India 2002
- 11. 2018 YEO Preconvention American Red Cross – Health Delegate to Mexico 2005-2008
- 12. 2018 YEO Preconvention Canadian Red Cross – Delegate to Honduras 2008-2012
- 13. 2018 YEO Preconvention TRF CADRE - Technical Advisor Nicaragua 2017
- 14. 2018 YEO Preconvention TRF CADRE - Technical Advisor Guatemala 2018
- 15. 2018 YEO Preconvention The Power of Vision See what you want… Get what you see!
- 16. 2018 YEO Preconvention Exercise: How did you get from then to now? THEN……. Draw or describe a concrete experience from your youth. Reflect on Lessons Learned. Draw or describe a link to today’s life.
- 17. 2018 YEO Preconvention How do you get from now to a future yet to be defined? NOW……. Quantum Leap Insights to Linking Life’s Moments FUTURE…..
- 18. 2018 YEO Preconvention How can you engage your returning exchange students in opportunities for self-reflection? How can they see patterns in the past that allow them to begin to project forward and see connections that could lead to an exciting, fulfilling future? Open Discussion:
- 19. 2018 YEO Preconvention Projecting forward from the past Past…. Present…. Future….
- 20. 2018 YEO Preconvention Quantum Leaps in Leadership Reflection on the Year Abroad Elaine Hernandez, PhD Assistant Governor, Area 11 - District 5930 South Texas, USA June 22, 2018
Editor's Notes
- David Kolb, explains how students learn from experience. “Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience.” Kolb's experiential learning style theory is typically represented by a four stage learning cycle in which the learner 'touches all the bases':
- I learned to speak Spanish and to appreciate the culture, language, and traditions of Mexico. In 1976, I was invited as a “hostess” at the Ontario Yachting events to translate for the Latin American Sailors.
- Then I travelled back to Mexico and married a Mexican Dairy Farmer whom I had met in Canada. Here I am with my first rural school and first feeding project.
- Because of my language skills, I was invited to Guatemala on a Fulbright Scholarship for six weeks.
- Because of my international experience, Rotary also selected me as Team Leader to travel to India, accompanying four young American professionals, to experience with profession in India. I learned about public health, writing grants, and silk farming.
- Here I applied my public health knowledge to address the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis along the northern Mexico border region.
- Then off to Honduras to work with a maternal and child health project in 229 rural villages, promoting the engagement of men in family health. Here I was teaching the community leaders about the power of vision: building a rural health clinic.
- Recently, I became a technical advisor to the Rotary Foundation to review a maternal and child health project in Nicaragua.
- And in March visited a nutrition project in rural Guatemala.
- In Guatemala, the women talked to me about their dreams and the power of drawing what you want. This woman wanted a lovely home, healthy children to attend school, and an income from her business of jewelry making.
- So that is my story. Much of my life’s successes can be drawn from the lessons learned as a youth exchange student from 1970. Longevity and hindsight provide a special perspective…
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