4.20.2009

The post in which I introduce myself

My name is Lindsay and I facilitate youth and adults in experiential education activities and initiatives.

I've worked a couple of camp jobs during the summers I was in college, and spent my school year in Baltimore, MD. I was looking for residence-life kinds of jobs during the spring of my Senior year at the Maryland Institute College of Art when my current position sort-of found me (albeit through a higheredjobs.com job alert that I set).

The small non-profit I work for is attached to a good-sized University, but our staff is small, about 10 of us during the year at the campus office, and another 8 or so in our administrative headquarters. It's an intimate workplace, and I really like that.

I got the job the day after my commencement ceremony in Baltimore last June. The move to New Jersey was good to me, "nothin' like a little intentional community," as the super would say. Ten months in, I've learned a whole lot, and the more I learn the more I realize I don't know.

In order to better track my facilitation goals and progress I make towards them, I'm writing this 'blog for myself and my direct supervisor. However, if any other experiential education facilitators out there can learn from my mistakes and my learning, that would make me feel pretty great, too. Here's what this 'blog is for:

  • Track progress on goals
  • Process programs by debreifing myself in the below form in order to get the most learning out of my experiences
  • Share facilitation techniques and lessons learned

Program Processing

In less than 140 characters, describe this program and its' goals.

What did you like or enjoy about this group?

Are there any facilitation skills you feel you did particularly well?

What did you learn from the last program that you wanted to apply to this program?

Were you successful?

What did you learn from this program and give one example on how you will implement that on the next program.

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