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Group Facilitation Reflection #1

Based off Worksheet 3-1, I would say our building empathy group did well on the introduction portion of the group.  The main place I could see improvement would be that we could have outlined the time frame of the group a little better to the group, but I think overall we did well with our warm-up and introductions.  As for the activity portion, I believe we did well.  We had appropriate timing and directions were clearly given on how to complete the activity.  Sharing went even better than I anticipated because everyone was willing to read their scenarios and opinions.  We also had great processing time as well because group members were willing to share their thoughts on other individual scenarios as well as provide feedback about their own perspectives.  Generalizing and group motivation were also evident as everyone was willing to encourage one another and apply their thoughts to their own experiences.  I think everyone had sufficient time to share and everyone really seemed to grasp application examples in their own life.  I think the summary could have been a bit stronger in that the most important points to emphasize was not brought up.  Overall, I think our group session went really well because everyone seemed to be engaged and there were a lot of intimate information discussed within the group.

As for myself, I felt somewhat underprepared during some of the group.  We did not decide until the day of how we were going to split up the group leader roles, and I did not know how to lead the latter portion of the session.  I think I could have done a better job hitting on the main points of the group, but I also feel that I was able to model empathy throughout the group session.

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