OT Blog

Today I met with Rachel Scarbrough, Caitlyn White, and Camille Vaughn for a leadership summit. Rachel is leading her group on budgeting, Camille is doing hers on meal prep, and Caitlyn is doing hers on caring for pets. We discussed our agenda and the ideas behind the theories that we chose. For example, Caitlyn said that her group activity will be learning to make sweet potato dog treats. We each got to talk about our activities and go through our protocol. This was helpful to me because talking through the session and making sense of my activities helped me prepare to lead it and fill in any gaps that I didn't notice I had. I also needed some advice on how to approach one of my activities so I was able to ask the group and get their input. Overall this was helpful in my planning and made me feel more confident in my ability to lead the group.

Yesterday Annese Jaffery and I lead a group on the topic of relating to others. I think Annese and I worked really well together when forming the protocol and as we were leading. For example, I get nervous when leading a group, especially at the beginning, and as a result of this I often have a problem remembering to do an introduction, which happened this time. Annese quickly jumped in and covered the introduction in a natural way. I realize that when I am leading alone this is something I need to work on. After this we played a quick introduction game that seemed to wake everyone up and get the ready for the activity. We started with having each group member draw/color a graphic of a few things about themselves, being: future goals, fears, and hobbies. We then asked the group to share their drawings. After each group member shared, we opened the floor for discussion of things that the members noticed were similar on their paper to someone elses. Everyone in the group seemed to be lis...