{"id":23258,"date":"2018-12-14T03:55:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=23258"},"modified":"2018-12-14T03:55:56","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:55:56","slug":"re-seeing-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/re-seeing-detroit\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-seeing Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember a time when cell phones with GPS navigation did not exist yet and I only knew how to get to downtown Detroit by taking Michigan Avenue east from Dearborn. Fast forward to present day and a gift of advance technology, there was still much of Detroit I had not traveled through. It wasn&#8217;t until recently that I had the opportunity to visit specific areas of Detroit I had never been. Challenge Detroit offered a full immersion of Detroit, through <a href=\"http:\/\/detroitexperiencefactory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Detroit Experience Factory<\/a>,\u00a0 by exposing the fellows to a rich history lesson of Detroit, a great meal, and a social breakdown of siloed neighborhoods. Fellows were captivated by the rich culture that Detroit has to offer and its resilience to ever-changing economic trends.<\/p>\n<p>Our orientation week was jam packed with tours and important lessons but most notably we had the opportunity to challenge ourselves through team building and personal obstacles by visiting a high-element challenge course. I once served as a certified ropes course facilitator, so naturally I thought the challenge course would be a piece of cake- I was extremely wrong! There was a moment of pause when I reached the top and suddenly realized how high up I was and my body suddenly went into panic mode. I had forgotten how to be in the heights and feel ok with the uncomfortable. I had to relearn to push myself into the uncomfortable in order to tackle the obstacle. Although this wasn\u2019t a typical Challenge Detroit challenge, it succeeded at reframing what it meant to be personally challenged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">All in all, orientation week gave the fellows a small glimpse of the upcoming year. From day one, we were exposed to Detroit learning how live, play, work, give, and lead.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Challenge Detroit Orientation Week\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/So931lk56Z4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If you&#8217;re not a reader and are more visual like me, I made it super easy to get a glimpse of our orientation week!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember a time when cell phones with GPS navigation did not exist yet and I only knew how to get to downtown Detroit by taking Michigan Avenue east from Dearborn. Fast forward to present day and a gift of advance technology, there was still much of Detroit I had not traveled through. It wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,260,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detroit","category-new-beginnings","category-play-detroit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}