Everyone was in such a wonderful feeling this morning in the Extended Professional Training and it felt so deep that when we broke for lunch I was ready to send everybody home. It just seemed like anything we would do after that would take us backwards.

And that’s essentially what happened in the afternoon.

We still had another day and a half to be together; I couldn’t just send them home. So I asked the group what they would like to get from the rest of the training weekend, and all of a sudden I had a list on my hands. I started to go through a couple of the things on the list but the feeling just wasn’t the same as it was that morning, so the feeling of the group dropped a little. Once I saw what was happening I did send them away early. But it was still a very good day.

I later reflected on how tomorrow we might be able to deal with the rest of the list by consolidating it into just a few categories and still maintain the feeling of the morning before. So that is the challenge for tomorrow.

Luckily, most of us are a very nice dinner together at the typical Japanese buffet we seem to go to every time we meet in Albir, and the feeling and spirit felt back to the way it had been. So we shall see. I am completely exhausted right now.