Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Group Co-Leader

As a potential group leader I have learned a few things about myself in terms of my interactions with the clients. I am patient with my clients because I understand that it takes time for clients to build trust in the counselor and because it also takes time for a client to accept their situation allowing them to move toward positive change. I am a good listener because I realize that as a counselor, I have to allow my clients the

Throughout the course of our lives, we must collaborate with people who may have completely different upbringings and have vastly different belief systems than what we may hold ourselves. One scenario in my life in which I had to collaborate with someone different than me was when I had to work with an overly aggressive football player who was a year younger. He started on the freshmen team but soon became the starting quarterback of the varsity team when he was a sophomore. I was on the JV team and was the backup quarterback both my junior and sophomore year. We came from different social groups, and I worried that we would not get along on or off of the field.

I am fine being a leader in general and I know what it is like to be in a group. It will be a challenge though, as I have already stated I am used to leading children and teens. Even though this will be a challenge I am excited to see how I can overcome this and become a better facilitator from it.

As a paraprofessional one of the biggest problems that is face is the collaboration between the team of the student you work with. I work on a team of twenty-one people who I must communicate with most of them daily or weekly basis. The main issue I face is working with the Special Education teacher and regular classroom teacher in curriculum. The reason being is that I don’t get things modified for my student occurring to the IEP and preview the materials ahead of time. Just being given the material to work with the day of is hard because if I must modify I don’t get the planning time to do so. Then I run into the student having behaviors cause the material is too hard. Looking at the problem-solving worksheet from De Boer I really like the

Today I wrote this letter to introduce myself to you for the purpose of improving our collaboration during this semester. As a first son and a fifth child in the family, I’ve received many loves from my parents and my four older sisters. My family migrated from Vietnam to the United States five years ago and carried our new hopes and dreams to this place. I was having a tough time in maintaining my native language and learning English at the same time. I don’t have any interest in reading books because I‘ve never really enjoy any book that I’ve read in the past, or just because I haven’t read as much book as i thought I did. My goal for this year is to past every classes with an A. The reason is I don’t want to lose my financial aid, and

The group that I worked with had a lot of fun hunting together. I worked with Angelique, Harrison, and Maria. The most difficult part for my group and I was trying to find times where we could all get together, but we were able to do it and get it done!

Kerri, I like your discussion post. I think your discussion board is very interesting. Kerri, in your discussion board, you stated that the difficult group for you to lead is counseling and therapy group. My favorite group that I would like to lead is counseling and group therapy. I would like to lead counseling and group therapy because I am experienced with some of the topics the counselors would be discussing such as “individuals who sexually abused, people who are diagnosed with emotional disorders, teenagers in an institutional setting, people with eating disorder, or people who suffer from panic attacks” ((Harvill, Jacobs, Masson, & Schimmel, 2015, p. 13). In my job experience, I have work many individual who were diagnosed with

Through our first session, I learned that leading a group takes preparation, practice, and confidence. The group process takes time and trust is not immediate. While you may want cohesion amongst members, some members will be hesitant and cautious. But instead of trying to fill the awkward silence, allow the space for processing and reflection. While I was disclosing trying to create universality among members and myself, there is a line that I have become more aware of. As a co-facilitator, I learned about the importance of trust. Without a relationship and understanding, there is an imbalance between co-facilitators. If the co-leader relationship doesn’t model trust and egalitarian principles, then this could stall the momentum of the group. As the first session progressed, I was pleased with how participants were interacting with us, as we had tried to create a casual, open environment.

Is my judge ready? Is my opponent ready? Resolved: Most meaningful extracurricular activity: Debate, no contest. During my first years in High School, I was afraid of public speaking because I did not anyone to notice my English accent. However, when I joined my school Debate team, somehow I forgot about my accent to start focusing on a passion that I did not know I had. I love to be the voice of my school, I love to wear professional clothes, I love to win debates, but what I love the most is not to allow my fears preventing me from doing what I love to do.This year, as the Co - captain debate, I challenged my teammates to know that the only “opponent” we have is our own fears. I love to debate because as I learned to defend my arguments and

When I first joined the band, I was a quiet, emotionless guy. I didn’t have any close friends in the band either, so honestly, I wasn’t having the best time. The people around me always seemed so happy to talk to others, and it confused me in a way. But then when band camp rolled around, people started to talk to me, so naturally, I began to respond to them, and eventually I began to start conversations for myself. I was a whole lot less awkward as days turned into months, my stuttering was reduced to almost none, I'm pretty loud, and I'm pretty friendly too.

This summer I had an opportunity to attend the CORO Leadership program, which was different than the internship I had last year at the Jewish Community Federation. CORO is a eight week program that helps students become civically engaged and assume leadership roles in our community. Everyday we had a seminar day in which we learned different topics, such as how to give an elevator pitch, social enterprise and grant writing. For seven weeks, everything I learned tied up with the San Francisco cohort community action project because the skill sets we learned helped us organize our project. For example, our topic is homelessness and we had to invite over fifty people to our event. The elevator pitch came in handy when we had a minute to explain to a stranger what CORO is and what our goal for the community action project is. This was a good experience because this program enjoyed putting the students on the spot. I often had to work in a group to give presentations that we had about four hours to prepare for. For social enterprise seminar, my group was assigned the issue, homelessness. After four hours of brainstorming, we presented our idea which was to build more affordable housing. Although it was a long process, and many investors had questions for us to answer, at the end of the day my group won.

I want to give a good grades for my group as a whole. All the members had a good passion about this presentation, and I think the prezi is also going well so far. We didn't had rehearsal yet, though the group members are good speakers, so I'm pretty sure that the presentation will go well, too. I think collaboration assignment is a lot harder than solitary assignment, because as a group, members have their own thesis statements, main points, and different focuses about organizing the work. We should have give away some of ours, and take what we don't prefer much. Though, I liked the collaboration, because the result by group is much better than by solo. I usually considered the order of our works. I think the sequences between the paragraphs are important as the contents to inform well.

How are things going? I see that life has been exciting for you these past few months, that's is so great to see! I want to follow up with you on a conversation we had a few months back when I invited you to a Challenge Group, I can't remember where we exactly left the conversation, I do remember you wanted to lose some fat, get toned, and be healthier in general. I am leading a Challenge Group that starts in February and wanted to see if you, or anyone you know, might be interested in joining. I'm specifically looking for ladies that want to get started losing weight over 30 days.

The situation of not owning a place live, dad losing his car, my entire family and myself living in one bed and room, and most all sadness broke me down. This opened my eyes to see that I needed to sacrifice and actually work hard to accomplish a goal being an example for those around me. I was taught to take care of things I did have and not focus on what I did not. This kind of character supplied me with know how to be resourceful with a team, different skills sets, and materials. Football introduced the family concept, working out and what it meant to be in great athletic shape. Everyday at practice we were always pushing beyond our comfort zones trying to excel beyond the previous day. Even in military training there was no such thing

I am always open to help and always look for opportunities to collaborate with my team. So, among other things, I have continued to help my peers with Hispanic calls, billing questions, or reviewing their voice mail while on PTO. During this year I received reward cards for being a team player and for my positive attitude on the part of both, my supervisor and my colleagues. I am proud to be part of a great