James Monk speaking to the club about his RYLA experience.
James Monk the club’s sponsored participant in the Rotary Young Leaders Award programme shared his experiences with the members at our last dinner meeting.
James found the course rewarding and challenging. The speakers, including such people as Sir Ian Taylor, were inspirational as they shared their individual journeys to success and leadership. There were several demanding team building exercises and James’s teams did very well as they came first on each occasion. For their service day they were assigned tasks at Mangamangaroa and on completion they were rewarded with a “Duckworth” feast at Jim and Judy’s home with this being one of James’s highlights of the course.
James outlined the multiple benefits of the course including socializing and new friend networks, “great leaps” in public speaking, self-discipline and “opening up new pathways to give back to the community". He concluded by thanking the club for their sponsorship.