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- The workshop that we
ran on this Saturday

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was called the Illuminate Think Shop.

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It's an event that was
created by two navy personnel,

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Lt. John Holly, and a
gentleman named Rich Walsh.

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They created it as the
founders of Illuminate,

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and since then it's spun off.

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They've influenced over
7500 marines and sailors

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by running this workshop.

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(upbeat jazz music)

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- The Illuminate event
was designed to kind of

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facilitate outstanding
participation through all ranks.

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(mumbles) allowed us to
put thoughts on paper

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and really go in and dig
deep to solve problems.

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Being able to interact with
not only senior marines,

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but junior marines in a
more personal capacity,

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knowing that it was not
necessarily a safe environment

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but an environment that
there was no judgment,

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there was no preconceived
notions of who you were.

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It was a bunch of marines in the same room

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attacking a problem set
that was put before them.

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(upbeat jazz music)

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- We did things anywhere
from team building exercises

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where you build, in this particular case,

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the tallest free standing structure.

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So that way you can understand

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the inner workings of a team and watch.

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As facilitators, we get to
see what type of individuals

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take control.

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As you start to get into
the deeper thinking modules

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where we take divergent thinking,

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which is very problem,

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and then ideas going outward.

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As many ideas as you possible can,

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into the convergent thinking
where now you have the ideas

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coming back in and being
funneled to a solution.

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(upbeat jazz music)

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- We also do a lot of
team building exercises

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a little bit of icebreakers

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to make everybody very
familiar with the individuals

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that they're going to be working with.

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And then we definitely
put a problem up there

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and we accomplish ideas.

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We put ideas up on the board.

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We solve these problems,

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and then we work through those problems

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to come to a uniformed decision

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on how these problems might be averted,

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or how a perfect world
might be accomplished.

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I feel like exercising work
shops like this are important

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to the Marine Corp because, you know,

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we all go to meetings every single day

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where they get, what do you have to pass?

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Nothing.

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What do you have to pass?

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Nothing.

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To get Marines power, no
matter what the rank is

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and allow their voice to
be heard from the bottom

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all the way to the Colonel,
and maybe even the General,

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is very, very, powerful.

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- This is pretty solid y'all.

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On the spur of the moment,
and it took second place.