February 17, 2013
Retreats and Communication
This past week, Coreen and I led class and facilitated discussion over advice giving versus interpersonal communication and what a helping relationship is. I firstly want to thank all of you for being really interactive and supportive with our lesson! It certainly made it a lot easier to do the lesson when everyone was engaged and willing to cooperate! I will most definately return the favor as each of you present your lessons in the upcoming weeks! :)
Today we had our retreat and I surprised myself by how much fun it was! I was basically laughing the entire time. To everyone who had an ice breaker, y'all did a great job and those were really good ones that I'll hopefully remember for my own section this fall! As for the digital story telling project, I am super excited to be doing the Hunger Games because the Hunger Games are like my second favorite series after Harry Potter naturally. I'm looking forward to seeing what the script will be like and the end product.
The lesson that Coreen and I did was all about communication. To answer question 1 on page 122 in the textbook, I believe that the major difference between normal day-to-day communication and interactions and the qualities of a helping relationship is the style and conductivity of the relationship. With normal day-to-day interactions, most of the time, one is laid back and uses informal language. With a helping relationship, there are defined boundaries and a centralized system of interaction that both parties adhere to.
In honor of Michael Jordan's 50th birthday, I'll leave you with a few quotes from him:
"I can accept failure - everyone fails at something - but I cannot accept not trying."
"I have missed more the 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game-winning shot and I missed. I have failed over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed."
Have a great week everyone!
Go Cyclones!
Katie
I thought the retreat was more fun than I thought it might be too. I mean, who doesn't like playing games? I haven't read or seen the Hunger Games, but I probably will because of this project and I've heard that it's good.
ReplyDeleteYou taught very well last Wednesday and I hope I can be as calm as you were when I'm up there. I hope everyone is interactive with ours as well (:
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