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On Thursday, April 20th, CASLS staff went to Portland, OR, for the annual CASLS Staff Retreat. Beginning the retreat at the Labyrinth Escape Games, CASLS broke into two groups. Each group entered a room and was given a task: solve the clues and save the world! Working together as a team each group attempted to solve the mystery presented to them. Meanwhile, a trained professional from Labryrinth observed the team dynamics. Once either the challenge was solved or the time was up, whichever came first, the Labryrinth observer had a discussion with each group to talk about what they observed during the task as far as how the team worked together, highlighting positives as well as the areas of improvement.

"It was kind of a non-traditional staff retreat for us" said Li-Hsien Yang, East Asia Programs Director. "It was interesting to have an outside observer comment on how we work together and to see how much it matched what we already knew about ourselves as a team. Also, it was really fun!"

Photos Group 1 (left), from left to right: Lindsay Marean, Ben Pearson, Fazil Parappurath, Lara Kim Higgins, Renee Marshall, Mandy Gettler, Stephanie Knight, Kim Larsen.

Photos Group 2 (right), from left to right: Christopher Daradics, Kathrin Kaiser, Li-Hsien Yang, Scott Morison, Linda Forrest, Linda Ellis, Carl Burnstein, Julie Sykes.