Final Paper!

Final Reflection Paper

For my final project for the course I chose to do a group project with Rebekah Bernard and Chenoa Castro. We are all Psychology majors and Communication minors/ double majors, who because of our course work at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, have come to discover the importance of combining both practices together. Psychology and Communications are so interconnected to each other that we chose to dedicate our project to teaching that importance to a group of Psychology students here at the University. Our project was combined of a speech, powerpoint and handout. The presentation was about an hour long that was presented to psychology counseling and practicum students.
Overall our presentation consisted of information relating Psychology to Communications such as nonverbal and verbal communication when talking to our clients, how we speak to our clients, what can make them comfortable or uncomfortable, and building trust with our clients. We also tied in a lot of what we learned from the 8th Habit book. We brought up what the 8th habit was, how to live by it, how to become a leader in Psychology for yourself and your client, how to inspire your client to find their voice, and we provided many examples from the book that related to our topic. We also did role playing examples of a bad communication with a client and a good, and also we did the exercise from the book about looking at a picture that has two different images, and comparing what you see to what someone else sees, so that our group understood that we all have different perceptions and how we can communicate those perceptions better for ourselves and the client. Overall the group we presented to was very interested in what we had to say, and I even had one student who called me afterward to say what a great speech and topic it was.
I thought that the group I had for the project was phenomenal to work with. We all had a lot in common, we all understood each others role in our project and did everything on time and I believe it was an overall success. I feel like we made an impact on those who we presented to, maybe even inspired some of them to look into Communications as a nice addition to their Psychology career. I think we all could take something away from our project that will impact how we use our leadership roles on a daily basis and how we can impact something we are passionate about.
What I learned from all of this is that I can be a great leader, I can be inspired, and I can set goals for myself and achieve them when I put in the effort and practice to get there. I feel like I made an impact in someones life with the our project and that really makes me feel accomplished, inspired, and that feeling that I can make a difference. I also learned that working with others who are just as inspired as you are can make an even stronger team. I felt like Rebekah, Chenoa, and I all were on the same page and really had an overall goal with our project and I feel we achieved it and were great leaders working together to obtain that same goal. I feel that I now know what it is I need to do in order to be a better leader for my peers, for my coworkers, for my family, and for my friends. I now know how to set a goal for myself and how to find my inspiration, and what steps I have to take to reach those goals.
As for my mission that I set at the beginning of this course I said that "My mission is to become the best person I can be so I can achieve my life goals, and to do that by using all the knowledge and skills I have learned and developed over my life. And then to share those things I have learned with the people around me, so they too can turn themselves into whom they want to become."
After learning from the book and videos, learning about other leaders, the class discussions and all the knowledge shared as a class, I feel that I have come a long way to getting closer to my mission that I set before. After our final project I do feel that I have become a better person because I shared with others what I knew and what I believed in, I feel that I was part of something important, I feel that I have shared skills and knowledge that I did develop over my learning career, and overall I did something that built my goal and possibly built someone else's as well.
I also want to say that after this class is done, I am going to keep on with my goals and keep up on inspiring others and inspiring myself to live our dreams and to find that voice inside. Now that I am graduating, in 3 weeks, I am passionate about going on with my career and moving forward, but still keeping a connection with everything I have learned and gained from others while in college. I think that this was the perfect last course for me to take before graduating because it helped settle any insecurities I had with not being ready for the real world, and now I know that I have the knowledge, passion, and success to be ready to take it all on.
I also have a new goal that I have recently set for myself which is to find my passion within my field so I can figure out what direction I want to go into for my career. I have yet to decide what exactly it is I want to do so I am going to go soul searching, experimenting, and learning what it is I want to end up in for a career. To accomplish that I am going to read into all the areas I am thinking about, make contact with those who are in that field and gain their knowledge on the subject, and to really think about what one will help me make an impact for my life and for others. I have yet to find that spark, but I am going on a search to find it.