What a week it’s been – the last before I travel home for the holidays. Below is my week recapped:
🌱 Wrapped up a week-long course on the 21st-century 4Cs with participants from Czechia, Italy, Romania, and Norway. Lately I’ve been deep in conversations about growth mindset and Carol Dweck’s power of “yet.” We’re not fixed, we can grow, shift, and expand. One participant even wrote “not yet” as their final takeaway, which made me smile.
🚀 Had the last mentoring session with Erika Kessenger for 2025 (thank you PWN Barcelona for bringing us together). I learn so much about strategy, work/life management, and other general tidbits of gold from her every time we meet. I always leave feeling motivated to do the work.
🎄 Tonight I’m hosting a connection-based event for ATTIKA Fitness, a bespoke gym that a close friend of mine Teodora Sklayne in Barcelona runs. She came to my workshop on Conveying Confidence in the Workplace last month and loved the embodied practices so much that she asked me to bring that same energy to her community’s Christmas celebration. Christmas? Games? Yes please! Will be a blast.
✨ And a special shoutout to Julia Slay and her Facilitation Intensive course in London last month. Since that training, I’ve been leaning into more visual note-taking, and both my participants and I are really feeling the impact. Total upgrade to how I capture ideas. ✏️🧠
I definitely feel like I’m sprinting toward the holidays… but it’s a happy sprint, and for that, I’m deeply grateful. ❤️
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Elana Shyong 