In this self-appraisal, I will reflect on my individual experiences throughout performance training. By focusing on three specific components: dynamic energy, self-definition and sensory awareness, I will investigate my personal development in critical depth whilst identifying one’s strengths and weaknesses. The highlighted elements of my training, will be informed by theoretical research and techniques taught by key practitioners, such as Phillip B. Zarrilli, Konstantin Stanislavski and Litz Pisk.
I have endured a system of training through yoga and Asian martial arts which heightens a psychological and physical experience, where “the body mind together become one through daily practice” (Zarrilli, 2009: pg. 64). When practicing yoga exercises, I begin with my body and then move inwards towards my mind, until I am fully present in the experience and aware of my environment. By tuning both my mind and body together I feel as though my energy is fully engaged, allowing myself to generate a sence of dynamic energy throughout the space as I encounter my whole body within the studio. However, even though I can transfer my energy through the studio space, I wish to enforce this dynamic energy beyond four walls. In Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach After Stanislavski, Phillip B. Zarrilli states that “Quality of energy extends outward in a line from an individual, thereby connecting that individual to and through the space and/or to one or more individuals in that space” (pg. 93). This can be applied to a particular breathing exercise, which requires one to stand hips width apart, with our feet fully planted and with an external focus directly in front. Whilst exhaling in position, the arms are fully extended, with our palms facing one-another. The motion starts on an inhalation while following the breath, with your arms slowly opening until the body is stood in a ‘T’ position. The movement is then repeated once an exhalation brings your arms directly in front of you, with your palms parallel - facing each other. The purpose of this particular breathing exercise is to familiarise yourself with your own breath, whilst imagining your energy channelling through your body like water travelling up the
Over the course of this assignment, I began to greatly enjoy deep breathing meditation. Continuing my regime of deep breathing meditation, I regularly practice this style of meditation. Initially choosing this modification for my body, it had positive effects on both body and mind. Centering concentration on my body, quieted my thoughts allocating my mind time to rest for a period during the day. Pausing my mind to focus on breathing made me mindful to my breath aiding my body when I became breathless, in need of a deep breath while navigating
Hays (2008) discussed privilege and biases based on culture and how these privileges and biases can affect a therapist’s work. Having a healthy understanding of self-identity can help understand the role of privilege and biases. In order to help self-reflect, Hays (2008) presented the ADDRESSING model which includes age, disability (born with), disability (acquired), religion, ethnicity/race, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, indigenous status, nationality, and gender. This ADDRESSING model will be applied in this paper.
According to Conte, Weiner, and Plutchik, the average score for most people, regardless of age, is 8.5. My score shocked me a little because I would think I worry about death a lot but consider to this questionnaire I am not that concern. I scored a 3, it was lower than the average score that these researchers found. I believe my score was low because I am deciding to make plans for my future and if I decide to get marry and have children the will not have to worry about anything except live their life and work hard. I want to get all of my debt settled and pay out all the bills so that my family would not have to worry. I do not believe anyone would forget about me because there will always be photos and videos to remember me by whether it
Self-Awareness, self-concept and emotional intelligence are effective managerial concepts that will result in leadership success. According to Stanford University, having these soft skills are indispensable traits that good managers should develop to be successful leaders. Managers strive to become aware of who they are, what their values, attitudes, skills, and abilities are. These values drive them to achieve and will eventually result in them become more effective. (Showry & Manasa, 2014, p. 15)
Self-evaluation may not be an easy thing, but my counseling skills throughout the semester have improved. This type of self-evaluation is an essential part of the role and helps the counselor to become a better counselor. Thus, without this reflection, the counselor becomes stagnant and loose motivation. I reflect on my journals most of the time about how I am improving each day, and the new skills that I learned and will continue using them. I did not think I would be able to do the skills that I learned from this course.
The areas of productiveness in this session for me included the paraphrasing and minimal encouragers. Throughout this session I felt that my paraphrasing was clear and concise. It allowed the client to think about what he had said, while being able to provide me with feedback and allowed for the conversation to flow naturally.
I chose to base my studies on J because we shared a lot in common; we are both Christians living in a predominantly Muslim country. He is eleven years old. His parents are Jordan nationals who have lived in Bahrain for at least two years. J goes to school at Naseem International School where I work. The school offers PYP programs. Lessons are conducted in English; however, Arabic lessons are also offered per week. Majority of kids in this school are Muslims most of whom are Bahrainis. Other nationalities making the student population are Saudis, Lebanese, Jordanians, few South Africans, and other Arabian Gulf countries. Teachers are a mixture of nationalities. Some of them are Arabs, others South Africans, while some are Europeans.
In a post-performance discussion, the three groups were given the opportunity compare and contrast their own performance in an engaging discussion detailing the reasons for their choice in the production, ideas and intended messages given through the performance that had been created and presented. After a second viewing of the performances through a video recording, group one was first to be asked about the creative process that was undertaken including the difference between the week 7 proposal and actual week 12 performance. A common link between each performance was viewed in the expression of everyday performance through the identification of social and cultural issues such as gender, femininity, masculinity and ethnicity. The assessment
The purpose of this assignment is to self-reflect on what has been learnt in the topic this semester and how it is going to influence as a health professional in our chosen field. This assessment is made to encourage us to be able to identify the values and beliefs we have as individuals and how these impact on our ability to interact without others in a diverse society. This self-reflection will include the results from an Implicit Association Test to help gain a greater awareness of my own unconscious thoughts as well as evidence from reliable sources to help back up statements and give evidence to support this assessment.
I have received a professional bachelor degree in Finance, specializing in banking and insurance, where I have gained excellent theoretical and practical knowledge in finance analysis, management, accounting, statistics, and technology. Currently I am studying at XXX University to obtain MBA in International Banking and Finance. My expectation is that with an MBA, my strengths will position me to pursue a broader scope of practice within other fields than audit, and in a variety of settings beyond the financial services with which I am most familiar.
Negotiation is one important part of both the professional and personal life in our everyday situations. It is critical for people to resolve disputes, distribute limited resources, and/or create something new that neither party could achieve on his or her own. Negotiations can range from coordinating project timelines with clients to asking for a raise to discussing holiday plans with family members.
I choose “Developing an Information Literacy Workshop to Improve Evidence-Based Practice Among Nurse Practitioner Students” to summarize for this forum. The presentation was a discussion presented by Antiqua Smart on a scholarly practice project study. The purpose of the study was to develop and implement a workshop to improve Nurse Practitioner (NP) students in critical appraisal skills and clinical decision-making skills in support of Evidence Bases Practice (EBP) during clinical practicum experience and beyond (Smart, 2014).
b) I had an RTC Score of 2.94, which means that I have average rating when it comes to resistance-to-change. I scored the following in each area: Routine Seeking- 2.20, Emotional Reaction- 4.00, Short-term Focus- 2.50, and Cognitive Rigidity 3.25.
My self-perception and reflected appraisal are somewhat in tune with one another. My boyfriend gave me the list which is why certain things are there that may not normally be seen by others. For instance being stubborn, and impatient are something only my boyfriend and possibly immediate family would notice about me. Due to my comfortability with them. Furthermore, there were some commonalities in qualities such as friendly, helpful, kind-hearted on my list and sweet, caring, kind, and thoughtful on his. I listed a quality of mine as being smart and he listed intelligent. The qualities I listed that he did not are strong, confident, outgoing, leader, and independent. I was actually quite surprised that we had so many on the list in common.
Every one has their subjects that they love and hate, and for it was defiantly writing. Writing is something I dreaded for a long time; I developed my hatred towards writing since probably elementary school. I hate writing when I’m expected to put a spin on a subject that just doesn’t work for me, personally. There are many times when I have papers due and sometimes I feel like I have nothing to say towards the topic. I could write a paragraph but to continuously write paragraphs after paragraphs it gets a little harder. I always contradict myself in my writings but that is something I have grown out of. Writing is time consuming and requires a lot of effort. They require a lot of planning and usually some accompanying reading and note taking. Taking notes is one of my weaknesses. In some intuitions like my high school for instances there was not enough time is given to the rough draft and not enough feedback is given before the essay receives a final grade. I personally believe that not everyone is a "natural-born" writer; but I do believe that everyone has the capability to become a decent writer.