Esperanza means Hope!

Team Esperanza!

Enriching with Esperanza had its first team meeting this past Sunday! After the obligatory awkward silences we did activities like FLASH where we all answer some fun random questions and of course we had a game that required eye -contact and yelling at the top of our lungs, ya know important first impression activities. We then moved onto an activity that can be, and I quote, "real deep". I asked each of my participants to draw however they see themselves on a piece of paper. Then, using three different colors, decorate their drawings with three core values they hold dear. I gave everyone about 10 minutes then we all went around and shared. We described why we drew ourselves the way we did and the three values that were most important to us. Some went really abstract (For example I drew my body as a spinning vinyl record) while some went more traditional. It was a wonderful exercise though because it let people get comfortable around each other and allow connections to be recognized and therefore strengthened. Team Esperanza is off to a great start and I can't wait to see where we go from here!