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Facilitator-in-Training Name | Divya Menon |
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Evaluator(s) | Shane O'Connor and Kaley Hixson |
Location | Online Practicum |
Date of Session | 10/20/2020 |
Skill | Skill 3: Emotional Awareness |
How well did the facilitator lead the group and create a safe space? Please explain and give examples. | Lovely relaxing and clear intro, nice clarity while reviewing previous skills and priming folks to respond to how their practices have been going, the skills that have been practices and used the most. Compassionate way of connecting peoples sharing with the skills and evidence of appreciation. You led a confident recap of previous sessions. Also using the chat nicely to compliment the audio responses. Appeared very calm, composed and smiling. ‘Let’s get started with skill 4 …’ (Enthusiastically). Personal sharing and connection with caterpillar and lovely bridge between the personal understanding of images and the CIT definition. |
How well did the facilitator explain this Skill using the PowerPoint presentation? Please give examples. | Divya Caterpillar image explanation, clear and concise yet personal. Clearly not over looking at notes but embodied sharing. When you were asking the question about why we sometimes have afflictive mental states, the participants were seeing two of the 8 worldly concerns and this may have confused the question or implied that the answer was connected with the images. Possible asking co-facilitator to move back or even stop sharing here it might have been welcome. |
How well did the facilitator explain and lead the activities in this Skill? Please explain and give specific examples. | : it was clear from the very beginning that you were passionate about the themes, content and the skill that you were facilitating but in addition, you were able to personalise the material with several examples you presented to reaffirm the main point and components of the skills. You were also assisting your co-facilitator activity while she was taking the lead on several slides by being active and engaged in the chat and bringing relevant comments out to the whole group when you deemed it to be worthy of enhancing the learning for all. |
How well did the facilitator lead the Mindful Dialogues and Reflective Writing Exercises in this Skill? Please explain and give specific examples. | There was No CP Facilitated during this session (This was not compulsory) |
What aspects of this Skill did you think the facilitator did exceptionally well? Please give examples. | relaxed and composed facilitation style and strong examples in your toolkit to connect and enhance the material. |
How well did the facilitator lead the Contemplative Practice in this Skill? Please explain and give specific examples. | There was No CP Facilitated during this session (This was not compulsory) |
What aspects of this Skill could the facilitator improve? Please give examples. | Towards the beginning of the session, you asked the group what causes the afflictive mental states? 8 worldly concerns were beautifully guided through, there was a point where I believe Mary Pecuat attempted to share but was interrupted (by me!) but then we moved on within allowing her to share. There was a lovely sharing and you connected so well and gave an honest personal connection to praise in your own upbringing for the benefit of those on the group and to bring to live the material. It’s very hard to remember everyone who wants to share but important to try and keep track of those who want to share in the chat and audio. Impressive sharing of stories to connect and extract more learning from the material, demonstrating the power of storytelling while facilitating. If you had created a lovely pause after sharing your story and even open the space to extract the nougat’s of wisdom from the story it would have been even more powerful I felt and time for the links and metaphors to land. For the 'Biases slides,' it would have been lovely to have asked the group what they see, feel or think when they see the slide in front of them but it appeared that time may have been tight at this point in the session. |
Do you recommend this facilitator to become certified? | Yes |
Entry Date | October 29, 2020 |