LIDIA VAZQUEZ

 

Perserverance was dempnstrated by each group in Casa De Miedo, there idea wold fail or something would go wrong and they would persavir througth it and the would demonstrate dedication. An example of this was when my group was about to get cut twice, that day from bieng the group that was most inficent to the exemplior group that had all there walls up. We persevered througth it, I do wish we would have cept that title.

 

Perservarnce is a common stuggle for the human bieng, of course it is a major stuggle for me sometimes I do give up sometimes I am just done, I don't take that and persever through it.An example of the stuggle was towards the end the place were you have to gve it your all. My group was not motivated which projected to me and we just gave up. An our wonderful scene was cut. This would have been diffrently if we would have had mor passion towards our scene and persevered through it.

 

Persevarnce is sometimes a strngth for me because most of the time don't give up if I am faced with a challenge I persever through it . An example in this project was when we didn't have any vines or branches for my scene we did not know what we were going to you. I took control told the matnense guy nicley if he had any spare branches. He voluntaried to cut some for us when he did my group didn't want to help me carry them me and a classmate carried every branch to our scene. And I began to hang every single one.

 

 I experinced through out the project a lot of flexibility and open mindedness with the students, they all learned how to view diffrent perspective and ideas collabrativly. An example of this was when Sarah one of my group members wanted to do a creepy cafe scene, all our other group mates wanted to do the dark water scene. So we talked it out and incorporated a cafe with our other scene. We could have had a debate or a dilema, yet we chose to observe one anothers perspectives and learned how to incorporate them  .

 

I don't find perspective one of the HOHM a particular struggle for me. I have delt with difrent opinons and harsh critque in the past so I learned how to not take it personal and come up with a way to incorporate it or mash it togather with mine like that both perspectives are bieng respected.

 

Perspective is a strength for me because I am flexible and I do take under consideration other peoples perspectives. I myself have diffrent perspectives in almost everything, I like to observe the possiblites and see both sides.

 

What I will do inorder to improve is continue collabrating or dealing with diffrent people that don't share the same perspectives as me. Like that I can get more practice and really test myself.

 

A moment of cooperation  that was shown to me was when we had 10 minutes to clean up and my group needed to sushi roll our plastic or hang our plastic walls up,  in order for other groups to be able to pass. We really needed help, and about six to seven people came and helped us everyone was collaborating and we got so much work done it such a small amount of time. As a result of this we were the first group to have hung the plastic walls. It was the first time I had seen my group being so efficient and cooperative we all worked together and communicated with ease, it was empowering.

 

Cooperation was a challenge for me in this project specifically, because my group and I didn't have effective communication and in order to cooperate you need to posses communication first. I normally don't have difficulty in the that area anymore,. Coming from the middle school I learned how to work with other people and collaborate well with them. Yet this group was different we all got along and were quite talkative yet we weren't able to communicate. What I feel was the overall weakness of my group was the lack of motivation, even I must admit I didn't step up my game and assume an efficient leadership role.

 

Cooperation is a strength for me since I have worked on a lot of projects for the past three years I have learned different techniques and strategies to use when one's group isn't collaborating well. I know the meaning of cooperation which is that everyone has to collaborate and put in all there effort it is when everyone is working together to get an amazing result using partnership, sharing Ideas. And I feel that I really lacked in cooperation in this project, I will take this as a learning experience and next project my main focus will not be completing the objective, but in order to get the objective one must work together.

 

What I will do to improve in this habit of mind is take what I learned and use it to project the kind of environment I want in a group or while doing group work which is, everyone develops a mindful way of communication, as well a feeling of excitement and motivation,  determination. An example of this could be for example what I could have done in Casa De Miedo is have a conversation with my group motivate them and show them initiative and perseverance for them to use that example and project it. To develop a better way of communication we could check up each hour and share with each other what we got done and what we need to work on. I could have also separated my group to work on different tasks but that would require a lot of persistence for them to focus on the task that's on hand.

 

When something would go wrong in our group or if there was a problem we would normally just shake it of that was the major Dilemma instead of discussing it and ending with a resolution we would just do nothing. It was very frustrating to watch yet if the whole group feels the need to just shake it of I really don't have an option. In the future I will make sure my group addresses and solves the problem by communicating.

 

Being part of the Co-Op made me a member of a supportive community because, we were taught the Habits of Heart and Mind that really helped us be mindful and compassionate. Just by having those to norms created a supportive environment.