Final Days

As we all have noticed, time is moving by really fast. It is already coming to our final days of this Senior Project. On March 10 I had my first meeting with 7th and 8th grade girls, and the meeting turned our to be quite successful. Liza joined me during this meeting while I introduced my thinking process. I told them that one of the best way to confront a problem is by expressing it in front of a people who have been through similar problems. It took a while before the girls opened up their minds to the idea of group therapy. I had to nudge them a bit for them to start talking. Once the first few people decided to contribute, we had a functioning group going on. I was very surprised that it was able to work out pretty good.

I learned something from this first meeting. I learned that the only way for a group to have the greatest performance is if everyone is comfortable. This has helped me with the idea that before each group session, I will need to have some activity in place to build comfort and trust in each member. I plan to have another meeting with the girls during these final days of school. I am still keeping in mind that I will learn from each session. Does anyone have any ideas of what sort of trust and comfort exercises that I can use?

1st Meeting

In the blog before this one, I talked about how I was disappointed because the meeting didn't happen. Tomorrow we will hopefully give the meeting another chance. I need to get this meeting started because I need to know how to perform and construct the group. It will be in the multipurpose room during lunch. It will be about any similar problems that they may be going through such as abuse. It can be a different kind of abuse (physical, mental or substance).


P.S. By the way, I saved this as a draft on March 9 and forgot to actually post it. It doesn't say that it was saved on the ninth.