A glimpse at the Future (hopefully)

This week I had the opportunity to attend a training that one of the practitioners I am working with provided for an organization in the Portland area. Unfortunately, the 25 minutes buffer that I provided myself wasn't enough and I was late to the start of the training. However, I understand that I wasn't the only one and that it was simply "one of those days" for traffic.

As I sat there observing the training, I couldn't help but think that things were going well, and that I was getting really excited for the day when I could be the one providing such a training. I watched the trainers interact with the people, and provide them with skills on dealing with conflict in the workplace. There were people from different departments of the organization, and most of them didn't know each other. However, the ability of the trainers to make all feel welcome and help them to work together was amazing. It was done with such great skill that I didn't know until later that they were different departments and many hadn't know each other before. This continued to excite me.

I felt like a little schoolboy watching his dad give a presentation on what he does as show and tell, and being both so proud of their parent and so excited to be them someday. While the trainers aren't old enough to be my parents, and it doesn't seem as though we have that relationship, the help that they have provided me as mentors in my studies and during the course of my internship has been that of a caring guardian. I am grateful for this, and can't help but be excited that someday I can not only be able to provide the training types of services for organizations, but also to mentor another person interested in the field to see a glimpse of their possible future as well.