Every year, all coaches and the complete staff of agile42 meets for a two-day International Coach Camp: this is pinnacle of our company alignment, with more frequent meetings for regional or national coach camps in the rest of year. As you can expect, bringing together all coaches leads to all sort of fun, good work and strange activities!

This year the International Coach Camp has been organised in our European HQ of Berlin to coincide with the Global Scrum Gathering that took place in the German capital a few days earlier, and had seen agile42 as a sponsor and Marion Eickmann and Dave Sharrock co-chairs of the conference program. Even if tired from the Gathering our team managed to organise, in no particular order, two full days of coaching discussions, a trip to the currywurst house, the official company party paired with the birthday of a coach (happy birthday Greg!), some great dinners and conversations, a ton of photos, new partnerships.

But above all we engaged in a full-team Trabant Safari! Organized by a company named Trabi World that stocks and operates a number of the DDR-era cars, we drove around Berlin for major sights, bordering East and West along the path of the former wall, and especially being a great amusement for the tourists. American coaches didn’t seem to have major problems in driving without an automatic gearbox (the old Trabi lacks that, in fact it lacks almost everything). Our pace in the end was so slow that at times we felt we could have been overtaken by one of the runners training for the Berlin Marathon – not impossible, since the following day Dennis Kipruto Kimetto crushed the world record at an average speed of 20.6 Km/h.

It was great fun!