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It was great talking to Daniel this week and chatting about some common issues that we have been encountering regarding understanding NVC/CC as well as the challenges of integrating it into our own lives. I found connecting with someone about these struggles was extremely helpful to fill my need for understanding and to not feel as anxious about starting on the road of NVC/CC. Previous to CIRCLE, NVC and CC did not appear a lot in my life and still doesn’t (yet :) ), especially in my relationships with my family. Often, individuals in my family place blame and judgement on others, while not taking responsibility for their own actions, creating an unhealthy atmosphere filled with violent communication. Also, I have noticed that we complain about other individuals in the family instead of nonviolently and openly communicating. Additionally, we often put off getting closure after disagreements, which is another form of violent/dirty communication. I can only speak for myself, but I believe that for this stems from some of the statements brought up in the reading, such as “They’re never going to change … so this is pointless and “I’m scared”. Although, reflecting back on my friendships, I think that there were some areas in my life where aspects of CC. For example, my best friend and I have increasingly started honest dialogues …show more content…
Because it was my last year at camp, I was feeling sad and overwhelmed. I also had a lot of emotions about an instance of violent communication with a counselor, which combined into me crying. Greta was extremely helpful by empathizing with me both verbally and nonverbally during a time when I felt vulnerable, confused and emotional. Due to this experience and the impact it had on me, I am excited to see the difference I can make at camp by utilizing the tools of
My score on the PRCA-24 was a 100 which lands me in the high level of communication apprehension area. A further breakdown of my score is as follows: Group Discussion-26, Meetings-26, Interpersonal Conversations-24, and Public Speaking-24. Since I am a very antisocial person, I knew my score would be very high. I am so antisocial that I rarely order my own food at a fast food restaurant when I am with a group. This type of situations will only intensify as I begin public speaking, so I am in desperate need of management strategies. After reading the first few chapters of the book, I have produced the strategies below.
She expressed the honor and privilege it is to pour into the lives of young ones especially those lost and trouble. LaToya emphasized how sometimes you are not playing the guidance counselor but their mommies, which really highlighted the compassion and genuine caring concern for her students. Which provided me with the reminder that your career pathway should not rely on socioeconomic factors but more of a view of where our heart and intentions lie. Additionally, we discussed her schooling experience while pursuing her master’s degree, she had self-doubt with questioning her abilities just myself, however, what eradicated the negativity is experience gained through interning as well as faith. We closed with words of empowerment and motivation instilled in me to further continued education for master’s degree and licensure just as herself. Overall, this interview was associated with benefits such as clarity, wisdom and purposeful reminders. This entire interview revealed the profound impact being a human service profession has on society and
After making the difficult decision of moving out from a school I called home and attended since Kindergarten, my freshman year in a new environment made for a rocky start. I fell into the wrong crowd, tried getting out, but kept making bad decisions, which eventually led to a deep depression. My dreams I had as a child were fading before my eyes, and negative thoughts consumed my mind. I started to believe that I had no purpose and could never amount to anything, but the four days at Camp Barnabas in Missouri changed the course of my entire life. This experience was important to me and helped sculpt me into the person I am today.
As part of my HNC study, I will look to define and discuss the importance of reflection. I will be using a variety of sources such as books, web pages, articles and journals in order to gather information. Which in return will allow me to explain why reflection is of such importance.
My views about Ehrenreich’s novel that it was filled with educational details of minimum wage job occurrences. The author captures concrete memories of her experiences of several job positions. Working in several jobs of hard manual labor is exhausting for the mind and body. The job experiments involving all these jobs to see what many struggling people endure on a daily basis. I thought the experiments resulted in average, and intolerable work environments. Working one or two jobs was needed to survive and pay for necessities. From my perspective, it was a useful trial to show readers the hardships people of every culture deal with constantly.
It showed something about how adolescents that were camp counselors had a better sense of self-identity and faced the stages of emerging adulthood with more skills. I found that there are various studies have surrounded this idea. Johnson and colleagues took an in-depth look into 20 men and women from 8 different camps (2011). Similar to the idea of someone that wears many hats, the role of a camp counselor is one that has many opportunities for taking on and in essence testing out different roles. This is why the attribute is a camp counselor to advances in identity exploration, especially since it allows them to try out roles where they experience being a role model and having some
In Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Nickel and Dimed” she caught a glimpse of how low wage workers lived in the United States, the book opened my eyes to the challenges low-wage workers face in America. But it also led to some questions, such as: How does low-wage work in the U.S. compared to low-wage work in developing countries? My interviewee, Hannah Johnson(my mom), comes from a developing country in West Africa, Nigeria. But, in her 30+ years in Nigeria she has never held a low-wage job, nevertheless she had some insight that I thought would be very interesting to include. Overall, the interviewee's story is very similar to Ehrenreich’s experience.
In this reflective analysis of NAEYC Standard three, Observing, Documenting, and Assessing to Support Young Children and Families, I will first reflect on my growth, as an early childhood professional, during my course of study. Secondly, I will address my strengths related to the standard and discuss areas in need of further professional development. Finally, I will outline my goals for future growth and development. Early childhood educators demonstrate professional competence by understanding the role of assessment and the various methods of assessing student learning, including observation, documentation and standardized testing. These assessment strategies, along with partnerships with parents, can support students in their development and growth, by informing instruction and evaluating instructional practices.
“How to (not) get by in America?” That is a question we’ve all wondered and seemed to find the answer to whilst reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich. In this novel, Ehrenreich breaks down her adventures as a low class, low income worker and all the things she must do to survive in such a demanding economy. Each journey throughout this book was broken down into three main parts. Firstly, we take a stop in Key West, located at the very end of Florida. From personal experience, Key West isn’t a place to live when you’re living on your very wits end but somehow, she makes it work. We see her take life into her own hands when she picks up a job as a waitress in town.
This reflective essay will lay emphasis on one of the learning needs I have developed during my two week taster placement in hospital. Reflection helps an individual build upon their skills and makes room for self-criticism as he or she can contemplate upon actions and make relevant changes (Taylor, 2000). I will be applying the “What”, “So what” and “Now what” model of reflection by Driscoll (2000) in this piece of work because it is a more coherent and comprehensible approach to follow when writing a reflective account and is also an easier guide to writing reflections. The learning need I chose to reflect on from my learning plan is having a better understanding of diabetes and the 6 basic medications used in treating the condition since it is a common illness on the ward I am have been allocated on for my first placement. The timescale set for achieving this objective was by the end of my two week placement that is from 27th January to 9th February and I achieved it with the help of a host of factors. In this assignment, all the names of the patients and wards have been omitted and indicated with letters and numbers for confidentiality reasons as stated in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of conduct (2008). The paper will primarily touch on the type 2 diabetes and furthermore on the achievement on my learning need.
there will be good days and bad days and the counselor must be careful not to allow the emotions of helping others become the main objective in
These presenters were very informational in explaining their duties, jobs, and training. I liked when they handed out the salary sheet to give us a visual of what we could look forward to in the future with pursuing this degree. It also interested me Brian and Mike talked about getting deployed to various locations to work for a period of time. I would really like to have a job in one location where I can raise a family but then also have the chance to be deployed to work somewhere else for a little bit, it would be a nice change.
For my Multimodal project I have created a Prezi presentation to show the social aspects of cheerleading and my experience being apart of a team. My goal is to get the class, younger adults, and anyone interested in being apart of cheerleading or a team, to see my experience of being a cheerleader. Cheer has provided me with an unlimited amount of benefits such as building my self-esteem, providing me with leadership skills, giving me the opportunity to build relationships, and helping me find my best friends. I know how cheesy that may sound but it is in fact true. Cheerleading changed my life for the better and made me the person I am today. I want to show people my experience and hopefully encourage and motivate
I had an amazing time and made many new friends. I was inspired to apply, and become a Junior Counselor the next summer. I have never worked so hard on an application, but in my mind I knew what my goal was, and I was willing to work as hard as I could to achieve it. The work paid off, because in February I received a call and heard that I would be a Junior Counselor at RYLA 2015! My emotions soared. JC’s are supposed to be confident, strong leaders who are the best version of themselves at all times, yet there I was, terrified. Those imperfections and anxious thoughts raced back, and I didn’t believe in myself enough to know what I could do. But that changed starting July 25th, the first day of RYLA. In one short week, my confidence skyrocketed. The transition from childhood to adulthood within me was crystal clear. As a JC, I led a team of twelve teenagers, from all over Colorado. I grew close to each one of them, while learning about their stories and lives. I know that each one of them changed me in a way that I will never forget. Throughout the week we hiked, attempted all sorts of team building exercises, created cheers, and improved skits and dances. Through each moment I felt my leadership skills build, and I watched my team bond closer together. My favorite activity was called, “personal achievements”, where we all shared about adversities we had
This lesson is designed to review and reinforce a few important concepts about plants (e.g. Needs, parts, sequence of planting) and to also guide the students through applying a few scientific inquiry (e.g. Making observations, experimentation, discussion, reflection, reporting results etc.). The students have previously planted corn and bean seeds and today’s lesson has provided the students a chance to see the results of the planted corn and bean seeds. Additionally, seeds have been planted under and growing under the following conditions: without water, and without soil. The students see the results of these seeds planted under these conditions for the past week. Two plants in particular have already been grown their growth has been