Class Reflection: My Reaction To Small Groups

When I walked into this class, my first reaction to small groups was I needed to keep my emotions out as much as possible and learn to keep up boundaries. Emotions can get tricky when talking to other people about their problems. My focus on this program is to be a trauma therapist for kids. I believed that taking small groups would help me become a better professional in the field and now more than ever I can say I learned more in this class that I ever thought I would from a one semester class. Thinking about what small group’s entails I always pictured a circle with chairs, talking about a deep intimate topic that everyone is shy about. This was the first image of small groups and how I perceive it. On the first day I told myself my goal would be to gain more confidence, but in the end that shouldn’t have been my goal. My goal without even realizing it was to gain the knowledge of being compassionate with …show more content…
Leading a group even though I tried to come off confident, is a weakness I am still working on. I doubt myself and my emotions. I hold on to what I want to say because I know professionally I need to say it in a professional matter. Small groups and the content of the stages of group, the timing of how long a group should last, helped me move along with the process along the ivory tower and accomplish my hidden goal of not keeping my walls up. Thought-out the semester we had a series of connection with the eight students that I will cherish throughout the rest of my college career and take it with me into the field. All eight of us couldn’t have been more different and opposite of each other but we all learned things from one another and I will continue to learn how to keep an open mind and push my confidence through every group or one on one session I will one day