What a year 2020 has been!
How interesting and relieving to know that nothing lasts forever and here we are in October, having persevered 9 months of mixed emotions and events, lockdowns, the physical disconnecting and so much more as a result of the horrifying pandemic. Life has been getting back to normal slowly in different parts of the world but with so much caution. It is not even the normal that we were all familiar with. Everyone calls it the “new normal” now. It is like we have survived into another phase and we just realized that how we used to live before (the pandemic) wasn’t all that perfect and perhaps we need to re-adjust, and adopt some of that resilience that got us surviving through it in the first place.
I would call the “virtual” experience to be one of those surviving mechanisms that most of us adopted during the COVID 19 to keep life going and to maintain the connections with each other.
Almost all meetings, conferences, summits, classrooms and other summons must have taken place virtually or were completely off the schedule during this time.
It must have been a despair for some communities, regions and nations whose culture was not that of having virtual assemblies quite soon. The battle started in the mindset (whether to embrace such change and make a transition to virtual environment) and went on to the issues of economy (whether one can afford to own such electronic devices and expensive internet data) and access (whether they’re even within the proximity of network/internet reach).
Well, time was a deciding factor for many and as lockdowns kept on being extended, people had to make ends meet and had to adjust and build resilience in their own possible ways. Employees were forced to adapt and make the “working from home” phrase work. Most parents had to accommodate their children’s learning and schooling while at home. Some barriers to online shopping began to break as a result of people having no choice but just to trust the disruptive process of e-commerce.
And things began to move again; not the same, not collective and not at the usual speed, but at least they started moving again.
Mimi Ni Nani story was no different. We started the year excited with our planned programs that were well spread out across the year to engage youth on face to face basis with skills training. Only to come face to face with the unexpected events of the pandemic.
Well, the “virtual” experience was our surviving mechanism too and we persevered well through it. From hosting our “working from home” sessions to launching Mimi Ni Nani virtual programs and having participants attending to them and being able to achieve a bigger impact through their transformed lives. This was a major turning point for us. Things would have turned out different if it were not for this “virtual” experience possibility, given the nature of our business.
This was our wake-up call to re-strategize and to see the world differently. It is not about doing one thing (face to face experience) or the other (virtual experience) at a time, but rather a mix of both for each has its own unique approach and impact.
And this is the call for the upcoming virtual programs that will be rolled out starting this October through December 2020 as well as the call to many more virtual programs to be rolled out after.
These programs expose youth to live content, mix of facilitators and the access to mentors, while learning and connecting with like-minded peers within the comfort of your space. The “virtual” experience helps us break all the geographical and some demographical barriers that would be hard to get through with the face to face experience. Every youth has diverse needs with varying flexibility but the desire to want to grow and achieve transformation is common and that is what Mimi Ni Nani is bringing to you through our programs.
Enroll Now and Enjoy your best life now, virtually.
