Today was my day to do group
facilitation in my
body,
langauge and
spirit class. I think that these facilitations are generally a very useful element, esp. in
women's studies, but sometimes they can be so
frustrating.
I had to lead a talk on a
video we watched on
Thursday called
Black mothers, Black Daughters. One of the three people in my group hadn't been in class that day, nor had she gotten the video out of the
library, so she didn't have much to add, and what's worse, she kept getting
off topic, and since she never seems to
stop for air while speaking, it was hard to break in and say, "Well, sounds like you had a super weekend, now about this video that we're supposed to talk about..." Arrg!
I have to be more
forceful, she wasted so much time. But at least they all gave me good reveiws for the
discussion (the professor looks at these when she's marking me on it) and I'll have something to talk about in the '
group dynamics' part of my report.