“Dharamshala Dreaming: A Traveler’s Search for the Meaning of Work”

Susana Barciela is the author of the ninth chapter of Insights on Leadership titled “Dharamshala Dreaming: A Traveler’s Search for the Meaning of Work”. She is an editorial writer for the Miami Herald. Her essay is about a trip to the Himalaya Mountains that she took as part of transformational leadership workshop. Her goal in traveling to the mountains was to find the meaning of work.

I believe that a key point regarding her trip to Dharamshala is summarized in the last sentence where she simply writes, “Learn to climb.”

I believe that what she is talking about is that we need to face our challenges in life if we wish to grow. The only way to do that is to learn how to deal with these challenges by facing them. We need to learn to face our fears, we need to enjoy the process of facing them, and we need to find meaning and spiritual growth in the process. That is in essence what climbing a mountain is about.