Prior to the session, I was apprehensive towards my decision making, due to my previous session. I recapped my goals: accepting the silence, and trying not to lead the discussion, really focusing on the speakers’ responses instead of my own. This reflection will be a response to the progress made in these two specific areas, along with new realizations and observations from the second session.
The beginning of the second session began fairly quickly, Abbey walked in, sat on the floor and poured her coffee into her mug, I moved my pillow and notebook to the floor and flowed into discussion, I began the conversation with the phrase “so how’s it going”. She quickly responded by saying “fine”, ( a mild explanation of feeling) then continued on with her thought. I wondered if she brought the coffee
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I realized that during this dialogue there were many ways to support her, however I expressed in the opening paragraph that I wanted to allow Abbey to speak freely without my lead or direction. I also did not believe my ways of supporting would be suitable in terms of speaker-facilitator relationship. My ways of supporting would be to console Abbey in a friend-like manor, that could be done following our session. Being a grief counselor or therapist is a practice that takes time to conduct properly, I do not believe I have the skill set or training to do so at this time. However, Hammond et al. expressed ways of connecting or relating to the client in a respectful way such as, “those are certainly painful feelings you’ve been struggling with. I’m pleased you decided to come today…perhaps we can explore together more of where this sadness or anger is coming from”. Or, “I can sense the anguish you feel over the pain of [your lost one]. I know that must hurt… Right now, you’re probably feeling pretty overwhelmed…taking it just one day at a time, I believe you may be able to…” (1977, p.
During the discussion, I didn’t talk as much as I should have because for the questions that I didn’t raise my hand for I didn’t have an opinion for the discussion at hand, or at least I didn’t have a solid response that could be backed up with the text or generate more discussions among the group. For the two times that I did respond to someone’s response, I felt that I had a view worthy of being shared among my group, and this was supported when some of my peers agreed with the point I made and added their own view on top of mine. But for my second response, it was more like two responses which were included in one as a result of my wanting to respond to something that was mentioned before but that I wasn’t called on for, and for the most recent response at the time. The story closes with the image of a giggle to further convey to the reader that Mary’s mentally unstable.
The NA meeting had a guest speaker named Adam, the most surprising thing about meeting were candor and humor evoked by the speaker. Adam acknowledged that he has been addicted to drugs for seventeen years, and this behavior started when he was in the 7th grade. Adam was genuinely outspoken and humorously shared being in and out of treatment facilities over 28 times costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. The group really identified with the speakers story, and this was exhibited by laughter and comments from the crowd. Actually, I didn’t have any perceived notions about attend NA meeting, my only contention was to better understand this community.
AA Meeting Reflection Many people who have never had an addiction may not understand the difficulty of becoming better, and that is because we have never been in circumstances where our life depended upon a substance (Berry & Ramnath, 2013). However, for people who have had a substance addiction, the difficulty to becoming better is harder because they need to regain control over their thoughts and lives. According to the alcoholic anonymous recovery program, a twelve-step meeting is a very efficient program that helps people regain control over their thoughts and their lives. One vital part of this program is the twelve traditions and twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Although the overall goal of this meeting is for members to stay sober while
The community group I visited was Beaches Unity Group, which was located at 322 Penman Road. This was an Alcoholics Anonymous group that provided open discussion for people who were both struggling with alcohol abuse, as well as addiction. It gave the participants an opportunity to introduce themselves, and tell their background story. There where also opportunities to offer advice to the other members. I decided to sit in an AA group because there is history of alcoholism in my family, and so I was curious to hear the stories of other people, and how they are coping with their disorder.
The overall semester definitely had its up’s and downs . As a Peer Mentor I have learned to appreciate my hardwork much more and also learned that speaking up a lot is key to key action to many things. One of my goals for the semester as a Peer Mentor was to get to know my peer mentees on a friendship level or maybe as acquaintances. That goal actually came true in a way because I only made three acquaintances only. Another goal I had throughout the semester was to go outside of my comfort zone a little, I really didn 't like to talk in front of the class.
Understanding and change were the main themes at an impassioned town hall discussion on Anti-Semitism at the University of Wisconsin. The town hall took place Tuesday night at Gordon Dining and Events Center. The discussion was planned in response to photos that appeared on the door of a student in Sellery Residence Hall. The photos were of an anti-Semitic nature, and when they went viral, people began to question the university’s response.
This is a summary of my learning whilst being on the foundation degree. I am finally at the end of my counselling degree and I think this has been my biggest accomplishment to date, alongside raising my boys. I have learned such a lot about myself and gained a better insight into how and why I relate to others the way I did and still do. In my PDP presentation, I talked about client work, supervision, peers, Personal development group, and personal therapy so I will just summarise these in this essay.
After replying no she walked out, but she seemed odd about the news. She felt odd, knowing what the family business
You knew him?” I asked. “He was such a kind soul, I am sorry for your loss, dear. Of course I knew him, he was the one who let me stay here.” She replied.
The purpose and individuals goals came to me as I was reading chapter 3 in the Learning Through Serving: A Student Guidebook for Service Learning and Civic Engagement Across Academic Disciplines and Cultural Communities book. Consciousness of Self, Congruence, Commitment, Collaboration, Common Purpose, Controversy with Civility, and Citizenship are the seven C’s which helped me to tailor and refine my individual goals. This was important to me as the seven C’s helped to add meaning and value as to what I was to achieve by helping these students. I wanted to help the students by volunteering so that way I would be helping out the community. When I was younger in the same Sunday School Program.
Counselling is a talking therapy that involves interactive relationship of client and counsellor. Counselling offers opportunity for clients to talk to the counsellor about their problems and feelings in a confidential environment. A counsellor generally helps the clients to see things from a different perspective and find their own solutions based on their own beliefs. The main aim is to enable the clients to develop a better understanding of self and be able to make changes to cope with difficulties in their lives, by reaching their own decisions and act upon them accordingly to develop a satisfying life.
Over the semester I have learned many new aspects of social work that have helped deepen my understanding of what social work is really about. This course has taught me things that will help me become a better person and will also help me with my future working with children. Self reflection is a key skill to have when working in social work. We need to understand how we are, and our social location, influence everything we do with social work. My beliefs and values would be beneficial for being a social worker because I have a caring no judgment, personality that allows me to be a neutral and to listen to people.
The purpose of this reflection is to reflect upon the use of counselling skills, which I have applied in the role-play with the goal of establishing healthy rapport building.
In this semester, I have been exposed to the subject of Introduction to Guidance and Counselling which is a new field of study for me. After I have received this lesson, I can relate my experiences with what I have learned. Not only that, I also have different perspective towards after I learned this subject. The aspects that I can relate my experiences and thoughts with are the differences between advice, guidance and counselling as well as the goals of counselling.
Professional reflection As I began my field experience journey, I learned many roles and responsibilities as elementary teacher. My duration in the field was nine weeks. I began training at E. R. Dickson. I developed a great working relationship with the staff and parents in the community. I always knew teaching is my passion.