WHEN WORKING ABROAD

I´ve been working outside Finland since I came to study at Team Academy. On first year of my BBA-studies as a team-entrepreneur in co-operative company KrokoDiili, I went to arrange an event with two other people from TA to Paris. Working with different cultures and methods was an experience of a lifetime. ECLOSION 1.0 was a great event to organize, there is allready a third one arranged this year!

After those three months in France – I just needed more. When I got a possibility to come work to Basque Country with AMETSEN EKAITZA 2.0 the decision was very easy.

It´s really interesting why people won´t challenge themselves by leaving the familiar surroundings and going to work abroad. Even that inside European Union people would have better chances for that than ever before! Of cource everyone don´t want to go abroad, but what about those who all the time speak that they would love to try it and see what is the reality when you change everything around you.

According to what I´ve found – those people are afraid. Many times they just don´t say that directly, “reason” is something like this:

I have a… cat, boyfriend, girlfriend, dog, flue, garden, car, student loan, house, nice livingroom set, kichen table, toilet cover, family, allergy, flight fear, broken suitcase, dentist, laundry-day, gym-card, fixed DSL-contract …… and the list goes on…

What are people afraid about ? Is there so big possibility of losing your face, getting hurt, getting sick or losing that nice flat you have to someone else?

Maybe people fear that they have to confront themselves !

Why? Because it´s pretty scary – done it few times. In the end you just find yourself and see it in a very different way than back home. All that you do, say or feel is different and more “clear”. Then you just have to cope with that.. You try and you fail or succeed. Point is that whatever happenes, you learn, that´s life.

I think that it´s the best things in Learning-by-Doing method that you can really experiment and try different things. It´s also the core of LEINN-degree starting in Mondragon University in the autumn 2009.

Anyway, the real reason why I started to write this post was to announce that in AMETSEN EKAITZA 2.0 we will have facilitators also from Team Academy Finland along with the local facilitators from the Mondragon University.

Salla,Sisko, Satu-Maria, Satu, Petrus, Matti, Elina, Jenni & Santtu from Finland

Thanks for you support guys and see you in the end of April!

posted by Iiro / AMETSEN EKAITZA 2.0 - PARTNERSHIPS

What would you do if you wouldn´t be afraid ?