I really enjoyed myself during the first week after the switch into Stephen's section. We did ice breaker influenced activities in a sense that he wanted to get to know us and where we are at as far as facilitating activities and group work. We were given a couple different scenarios, props, and limitations where we needed to come up with activities that addressed two of the domains (physical, emotional, cognitive, or social) and have goals specific to our creation. There was one group that was given paper, tape, Dixie cups, and balloons and had to incorporate every prop in their activity. We had shower caps, tape, medical gloves, a Halloween bucket and saran wrap. We came up with a "medical play" activity where the participants would have to dress their partner, who was immobile, as a doctor in "scrubs" and walk them to the middle of the room and grab the "patient" or skull Halloween bucket for surgery. I really tried my hardest during these activities to see how creative I could be and how quickly I could think. I felt that the exercises were really good because as TRS's we need to ALWAYS be thinking on our toes and be accepting to new challenges. There might be times where we need to quick put together an activity, and the job in itself we don't usually get a lot of funding for our programs so we need to be resourceful. Everyone came up with really good activities that could be facilitated with a lot of different populations, and of course we had a lot of good laughs!
I am thoroughly looking forward to this weeks class because we are doing tape art which is something i've never done before. I'm interested to see the process it takes to get a finished product after watching the video in class on it. I am also looking foward to more group presentations on different topics and the innovations!
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