We had a Good Group Today
Ahh ... this is the unwind part of the week after the Thinking Group is over.
We had a great group today. We had someone pass out paper and colored pencils, and then they were to wait for instructions. Next we reviewd the letters (P)Personal, (S)Social, (A)Achievement, (C)Community, (L)Living. Then we had Four or five key questions that were asked on the performance analysis like, 1) What do you like? 2) What are you good at, 3) What do you need to learn, and 4) What are your goals? We started by having people raise their hands to answer the questions and then we told them to draw on paper what they had said, then when they were finished they came up and we stapled cards to match the pictures. And, soon people started to figure out what was going on, we said, go ahead work at your speeed. A car was for community because you couldn't drive in the living room, a picture of self was personal, family was living as was house, etc. We talked about it a little later, they told us which ones they had the most of and one client had one of each ... he had worked on it. There was one client who even came up to me and said which letters fit her pictures. Was like WOW!!! Very cool!
The person who had made the above picture wasn't as sure of the instructions, first he had thought to copy the cards, but he figured it out too. Two pictures of the pictures each won him a "P" as well as a picture of himself on the bottom center. BTW this male was an African American. The blue picture is a tennis racket that earned him an achievement picture, so then he drew the achievement award, and last he drew a picture of his friend so we gave him one for social. The exercise was just to help them learn what all the domains were we teach at the center. (Blogger Group test later! No cheating!) Think we're making headway! They had a very creative hour well spent. And, they left happy, which is the right thing to do - can we take our pictures home?? Yay its a Friday TGIF!!!!! Everybody be happy!!
And, you want to see something real beautiful,
This picture was drawn this afternoon by one of the lower functioning clients who's having a heck of a good time with color! Outstanding isn't it??!
posted by Ann Marie @ 4/28/2006 02:30:00 PM
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