Fire walk for Rocci

The Roodepoort Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Rocci) treated their members to a very special networking and certification event at the Kleine Constantia Boutique Guest House in Weltevreden Park.

A fire pit greeted attendees outside the guesthouse, not because of cold weather, but for an entirely different reason.

Certificates were handed out to current and new members of the chamber. Members certainly had the opportunity to feel like royalty with wine and cannapés being served. Rocci president, Marietjie Esterhuizen opened the event by thanking everyone for participating. Not only did members receive certificates, they also had the opportunity to listen to a mid-week motivational talk by Cobus Visser.

Visser is an author, speaker, international trainer, life coach and master fire-walk instructor. He got people nervous when he mentioned that the fire outside was 500 to 600 degrees hot and that he wanted the members to have a go at fire-walking. The whole idea of getting members involved in fire-walking was not to freak them out but to convince them that anything was possible if you put your mind to it.

He urged people to take off their shoes and make the little voices in their heads silent. “Look to where you want to go and say to yourself that the path you are walking on is ice cold,” said Visser. Member, Diane Graham was the first person to take the plunge and walk on fire.

Rocci’s main goal with this event was to create a fun networking event for each member.