Self and Community

Let's talk about our ideas here. What are you really interested in doing?

Questions? Comments? Complaints? Talk to each other here. Want to continue discussions that came up during seminar or workshop? Here's the place!

Continue our seminar discussions here.

It’s semi-open forum topic time! Here are some potential questions in case you need help getting started, but feel free to share whatever’s on your mind (hopefully it’ll have some relevance to your work this quarter and/or our program’s focus).
1. How’re you doing?
2. How are you changing as a result of your work?
3. What would you like to talk with your program peers about this week?
4. What’s your perspective on the recent incident on campus, given that Evergreen is one of the communities in which you’re involved?

How are you all coping with the internship now that it's not quite so new? The relationship between you, the setting, your co-workers, supervisors, and clients/customers can be complex, so it's important to begin sorting through all of this early in the game. Please address the following questions in your post (remember to specify where you’re working) and respond to your peers’ posts throughout the week.
1. What expectations did you have about yourself and about your organization? How well has reality met up with expectation? Why?
2. As the new person in this work environment, what pressures have you felt from staff and from clients in terms of your performance? How do you think these pressures will change over time? (If you don’t work directly with staff or clients, discuss the pressures you are experiencing overall in your work.)
3. What coping strategies seem to work best for you as you deal with these pressures?
4. What skills do you think you need in order to work better with staff, clients, and/or others in your work?
5. Is this a hospitable organizational context (see Dalton p. 377)? For example, is the environment geared toward teaching interns?
6. What do you need from your program learning community peers right now?
suggested:
How is the concept of different ecological levels of community relevant to your experience? Review Dalton ch. 1 (at least pgs.17-31) and ch. 5 (at least pgs. 135-147), and reference the text in your response.

Need to complain? Need feedback about something? Here is where we can discuss any problems that arise this quarter, unless we address them in the bi-weekly forums.

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