When working with groups as a speaker-facilitator, what’s important is making a meaningful and authentic connection with your audience.
Last week my audience was an exceptional and talented group of sixty internationally-educated professionals in Business and Technology at York University at the beautiful New Students Centre.
As newcomers, our parents’ arrived in Canada 70 years ago. And yes, it’s a new world now but courage is courage. And at times, it must seem as if there just isn’t enough courage to go around. So my final remarks of the evening are a tribute to our parents:
“Like our parents who came to Canada in 1949 from China and Hong Kong, you have come a long way from home. Our parents came with very little and still managed somehow to put a roof over our heads, gave us a safe place to sleep, books to read, clothes that kept us nice and warm, and fed us well, always too well.
What our parents accomplished was truly remarkable. Our parents gave my siblings and me their entire lives. We can’t come even close to giving back to them anything that resembles what they gave us – extreme selflessness. Holding them in high regard and respect are all we have for them.
You, too, have something unique to give to your children. And when you’re frustrated in your job search and you can’t find the right word to say, remember all that you have.
You have:
- the ability to give more.
- the agility to bend more.
- the capability to build more.
- the knowledge to create more
- the experience to understand and see more.
- the best of many worlds to dream more.
- more than you know.
Your Bridging Program’s motto is “Make More.” You have abundance and I wish you success, health, and happiness.