Collaborative Practice Reflections

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Assignment 1: Group Experience Reflections for Foundations of Collaborative practice 1. What did you first notice about your first responses to the group you found yourself in? My first responses to the group were apprehension, as none of us knew each other, I felt nervous but eager to participate; it was something we were going to find out together. My second experience was that I had preconceptions of an individual in my group who I experienced as loud and overly dramatic. I felt awkward being alongside her as she sounded opinionated and argumentative. However when she then engaged with the group about why she was here and what influenced her, I felt overwhelmed by her story and lost my sense of judgment towards her. This experience has made me realize never to judge a book by its cover. 2. What did you notice about the way you engaged with Diversity in your group? My Group had been asked to outline our family background and what had influenced us to be here today. I initiated the first responses to the group to ease the tension amongst my peers. The diversity I acknowledged the most were the age differences, I noticed one individual who was younger than the rest of the group who had no children, the rest of the team were older who had children. Taking in a younger individual’s opinion in group tasks I found was valuable for our team, a younger persons input to the group brought a whole lot of fresh ideas. I also noticed that there was no male’s perspective; I believe this may have brought greater diversity to our group. 3. What did you notice about the Ethical choices you made during group interactions? The ethical choices I had made, was not to retaliate to the group member I was annoyed with, I withdrew from my choice because it would not have been practical for me to make an assumption, ethically she has a right to express how she feels. She

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