Meeting of the minds

When advising a union or management representatives you have to be well informed of the situation and have clear and concise goals in mind before sitting down with them. You have to know who is an ally and who is against the resolution. You have to know how to approach the audience you will be facing and you have to know which power to use to properly negotiate with them. Using integrative bargaining would be best when dealing with unions because you want to create a win-win situation so that…

interprofessional practice is integrity. Integrity is to act honest, responsibly and ethically at all times. These are also core values to have as a social worker in an interprofessional practice. In keeping this value system during meetings you will be able to have a more productive meeting. You will need to engage in conversation with other team members and act responsibly and ethically to have a productive and effective conversation with other team members. Two professional skills or…

Lastly, how can I best incorporate the personal goals I set in Milestone Two. In Milestone two, I identified the three goals I sought to set for myself. Also, wanting these stress relieving goals to encompass my mind, body and spirit. These goals honor the significant areas of my life: meetings that I must attained for my sobriety, continuing to do service work and finally my spirituality fitness. Although…

an AA meeting? What is an Al-anon meeting? Do I have a predetermined judgment on the participants in the groups? Do I have a predetermined vision of the atmosphere? Will I be made to participate in the discussion? Do I have a pre-disposition of the gender and race of the participants? All these questions were views in my mind once I received the assignment. The images that I had were blue collar members, participants cursing at each other, the facilitator trying to gain control of the meeting…

These people need help and attend AA meetings to receive cognitive behavior therapy and group therapy, this intervention helped the participants understand why they became addicted to alcohol and to focus on not relapsing. During the meeting,…

Upon walking into the NA meeting I attended, which was located at Lutheran Memorial Church in their basement on Erial & Blackwood-Clementon Rd, I felt extremely out of place because I am not familiar with this environment making me a “fish out of water”. The meeting was called Miracles on Monday, which is held from 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM every Monday, and I would soon find that the name was very fitting for what takes place within those basement walls on a weekly basis. The normal feelings an addict…

twenty-seventh, my classmate Mariah and I observed an Overeaters Anonymous (OA) meeting at Woodford’s Congregational Church in Portland. The contact person for this meeting is Susie, though the person leading that night’s meeting was Edie, a recovering compulsive overeater herself. This was an open meeting, held biweekly, and had an attendance of thirteen people, Mariah and myself included. The feelings I had leading up to this meeting were very mixed and fluctuated a lot during my hour drive…

easier for Pete. The school staff, together with his parents, will have to work together to provide Pete an acceptable means of keeping with his old school’s development. Several factors to keep in mind regarding Pete’s transfer and his new school. • Hope Primary Elementary School is situated…

The 12 step meeting that I attended was an over eaters anonymous. When I arrived, I was greeted openly and the people were very friendly. I had to announced who I was and the purpose of me being there. I was surprise that I was accepted as part of the group. The group had given several pamphlets and invited me to attend their weekly meetings. There was a total of eight members and two guests. I took notice that there was not a speaker at the meeting. Instead it was a group of people viewing…

By the end of Four Meetings, by Henry James, Miss Caroline falls victim to loneliness, foes, betrayal, and her own mind. First and foremost, loneliness dispels Miss Caroline away from society. Throughout Four Meetings, Miss Caroline spends her time in solitary. Before the narrator arrives, she always stands away from the crowd. Caroline sits “alone by herself at a cafe” and she spends the voyage on the boat “perpetually at the side of the vessel” (James 2). Yet, Miss Caroline stands “at odds…