How do you actively apply the WAGGGS leadership mindsets in your actions and decisions, and how will this enhance your effectiveness as a World Board Member?
My first contact with the WAGGGS leadership mindsets was when I took up my duties as International Commissioner. After thoroughly studying the Framework, I realized that I was following a similar model of action in my professional life.
Challenging myself and my skills, reflective work, collaboration and creativity, critical thinking and responsible action have been for long a second nature. Respectively, the gender equality mindset has been a compass for all my work, as I strongly believe that no present or future is worth fighting for if it is not one where girls have equal opportunities to thrive.
My first contact with the Framework proved a key moment. Based on the professional success of implementing such a model, among the goals I set as International Commissioner was to help my organization adapt its structure, operation, programs and Constitution to the data derived from the WAGGGS Leadership Outcome Framework. Having previously served in other positions in the hierarchy of the GGA Cyprus, and identifying challenges, I took up the initiative to suggest to the Board the formation of Committees to discuss constitutional changes, renovation of our training program, and new projects. The renewal journey we began and follow in recent years, was based on this Framework, the CAT and other tools, and my contribution was also by translating all necessary documents in Greek.
The inspiration and the outcome of this effort, along with my role in inspiring and leading small Cyprus GGA into hosting what is described by participants as one of the best-ever WAGGGS WoCo, in 2023, are the keys that make me believe in what an opportunity will be for me personally, if I succeed in my new goal to continue my leadership journey in WAGGGS WB.