Workplace Learning Internship Activity

1.Please describe the primary activities you have engaged in at your workplace learning/ internship site. (4 pts.

Some of the tasks I am engaging in my workplace for my internship are: making phone calls to some of the 400 small group leaders, logging people’s information in the computer data system, helping to write the weekly curriculum for the study groups, as well as leading a college small group myself. These tasks are mostly accomplished on Tuesday and Wednesdays. During the weekends, but mostly on Sunday morning’s three church services, I also work the kiosk. The kiosk is the place which has informational brochures and instructions on how to join small groups and as the host of the kiosk, I answer people’s questions as well. My college

For the small-group ministry we chose the theme, “Save Our Planet.” I was given the task of decorating our booth, getting flyers designed, and creating a presence with the “Safe Our Planet” theme all within a couple weeks. Our booth/tent was made to look as if we were extreme hippies and were worried about the Earth. I made 25 tye-dye shirts for us to wear and helped staff the booth all weekend. It was slightly stressful because on top of that I had 12 units of school, various other meetings to be in as well as Thrive School events. My desire was to prove to my intern director, Mariann, and to myself that I could handle these tasks simultaneously and succeed by making our tent look

Often times I find myself afraid to do something that would really benefit me or the team, but hold back for fear of standing out, being judged, or being wrong. I hate listening to the voices within me that say I will make a fool of myself and others will judge me and tell me that I am not good enough, smart enough, or prepared enough. Learning to not care what others think of my actions is a step in the right direction. I just need to find out how to learn to not care about what others think about me.

5.What is your workplace learning/internship placement showing you about a future career in this field? (4 pts.)

I think my internship is helping me in my future career of Emergency Management by allowing me to lead small groups, work in teams, be assigned tasks that I need to follow through on, and working with a variety of differing personality styles. In emergency management I would like to lead groups to other countries where disasters strike. My desire is to work with an organization like the Red Cross, FEMA, or another international relief organization. My small-groups internship is helping me to improve my leadership abilities and giving me opportunities to become comfortable with both small groups and large groups of people and with public speaking. Although there is much I can still improve on, and I realize that I still have a lot of skills still to develop, I am seeing that all my training is equipping me for work in my desired