Group Reflection

Overall groups have been a major part of my life from participating in them to facilitating them. While I have been apart of them I never really thought about the fact that I am in them until now, even being in groups in the last few weeks in class I have been more conscious of what I am doing. I have been in groups for children with anxiety, groups that are clubs, and have worked leading support and activity groups as well as groups for children including summer camps, out of school care and daycare. From this course, I hope to develop my skills more in these areas as well as learn skills in a therapeutic facilitator role.

Great post! In considering group counseling I always was curious as to the confidentiality among group members and the importance of keeping it. As we learned last week once group members get pass the storming and transition into norming then the working stage the peer relationship changes. They began to start trusting each other valuing what others in the group are saying (Gladding, 2012) Therefore I would believe that because trust has been established people feel more inclined to keep others information confidential. However a study I found on confidentiality and if it’s realistic found that most people told others about what was going on in their group and half the group leaders in the study thought that confidentiality was vital to the

You will have the opportunity to build lifelong friendships in group counseling. These friends can provide you with the support that you need to get through life's difficult times.

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My prior experience in leading a group is when I lead a group of young men that were growing up in low-income housing. Ironically, most of these young men were growing up in a household where there is no father present, and they looked to the streets for guidance. During these group sessions, we talk about the stigma that was placed upon them for coming from the area in which they were growing up in. We also talked about social issues that they are dealing with growing up as African American males. Another point that was brought up was how do they deal with the police that patrols the area. Also, we created a dialogue that entailed discussing what the short-term and long-term goals were. Many participants of this group were eager to

As the leader of the group leader, I would have to be extremely careful when working with transference and counter transference. I would not get defensive if I noticed the member of the group being negative towards me in the open, and I would utilize my self-reflection techniques to question myself about what is going on in the group in efforts to not put what is happening in the group on the group, but to search within myself for answers. I would also speak with one of my mentors about what is taking place within the group.

Throughout my years in graduate school, I found myself with many opportunities to work on group projects. I always found these projects to be a rewarding experience because it was not only an opportunity to contribute my experience and ideas to the project but also listen to experience and ideas of my teammates. However, working on a group project also meant making sure to examine the work of my teammates and vice-versa. So for each group assignment, I always made sure to follow certain guidelines I laid out for myself in order to get the assignment completed.

The continual meeting of the groups helped our overall development into a better flowing group. We each learned how to better interact with each other as the sessions went on and we became a better group in the process. One of the ways the group changes from the beginning was that we all became more comfortable sharing our thoughts and ideas with each other. In the beginning we did not know each other that well so it was hard to share ideas with each other, for fear of being judged or looked down on. But once we got to know each other and felt safe to talk about our own opinions and ideas, the group dynamic improved. The change was definitely a positive one and one that allowed us to challenge each others ideas or questions someones thought,

This reflection paper is an analysis of my experience throughout this group project over the course Univ 1100. The purpose of working in groups is to build characteristics such as teamwork, reliability, trust, leadership & communication skills as well as learning new things based off of one another’s intelligence to prepare you for future jobs and etc. I was assigned to the group with Sydney, Dynasty, Sarena, Jyqueria, and Charlotte. We we’re assigned thee group project towards the beginning of the semester. We had to choose a social issue to write a paper on creating an image for students to understand what our topic was about, how it impacts the world, our feelings about it as a group and the importance of addressing it. For

I completed this reflection process using Gibb’s reflective cycle. I am grateful to my lecturer and fellow class members for helping me through this experience.

Since I started college, I have worked with many individuals and each experience was never the same. However, what was similar about each group that I worked with was that there was never time for our relationship to build to the point where trust could develop. I have always liked working in a group setting, so I always try to develop a good relationship with each of my teammate but there was never enough time. Many professors prefer to assign groups near the end of the semester so there was never enough time for me to build any sort of relationship with them. One of the reason I like this class is that I am able to choose my own team members and that the groups are form at the beginning of the semester, so we have plenty of time to get to know one another. By far, my group in this class is my favorite because I was able to choose the people I believe that I would be the most compatible with, and I had the whole semester to get to each one of them. Furthermore, the time I spent with each one of them has the best, and they always bring out the best in me.

Knowing how to facilitate a group is a vital skill for social workers to have, as there are very few branches of social work that will not require the skills to be used at some point. Throughout the course of the semester, Social Work With Groups has taught us how to lead groups through the use of theory and practice. For the practical element of the class, we were given the opportunity to facilitate a group on the topic of stress for university students. My partners, Ashley and Megan, and I decided that we wanted to focus our specific group on healthy living and its relationship with stress. We all chose different aspects of healthy living for each of us to facilitate. We led our group on Monday, November 13th. While I feel that my facilitation did not go as well as I had hoped, I learned a lot from my experience of facilitating, participating and observing, from the material provided in the course, and now I am able to understand the implications of what I have learned on my future as a social worker.

Thirdly, I asked John Blu about the activities and discussions that go on during the meetings that they hold on Thursdays. He stated that“Every meeting is different, there’s group conversations when an issue or situation comes up from a member, there has been presentations on bullying, and there’s activities like speed friending.” John Blu continued to talk and started to discuss about how they did an activity called speed friending He then began giggling and said “It felt like speed dating and that everyone was there to find a hookup or hook ups, most trying to find bisexuals to experiment with.” I then was shocked about why that was an activity at the meeting and how that educated people. However, I was not going to let this cloud my judgement before hearing what QUEST had to say about their meetings. When I went to see QUEST, we met in their conference room, there were no pride flags like anticipated, nor many cis males or females. The day I went in to observe the group, there were many people coupled off, that discussed how they all just met and that they met one another because of QUEST. In that moment I then realized that what John Blu said was very much true. I began observing them and watching how they were all over each other, which was disturbing in way because it was PDA. I then watched one of the advisors also be all over one of the new members of the group. I started to believe maybe the members are there for the wrong reasons and people were not there to

Throughout the first week of class, I have learned a lot about my learning skills, through groupwork, classwork, and individual work. During the first day of class, we split up based on what we thought our learning styles are. I personally related to South because it was described by the word caring. Listening and giving everyone a chance to talk. I learn best when I hear everyone’s point of view and ideas and listening also inspires ideas of my own.

During group, I was nervous because I still have no idea what topic I should bring up. I wonder if I should begin talking, but I am also a bit nervous to share something that I might be judged for. I find it very relaxing when Dr. U has us take deep breaths before starting group. Either way when Dr. U was mentioned that we did not have a specific topic to talk about, I really wanted to just share a random story, but something stopped me. I appreciated when Lucy shared how she feels that she is a very emotional person. I connected with her, because people always know how I am feeling based on my facial expressions.