Bauyon, Joanne Ruth O.

May 14, 2018

PSY41 Ms. Chie

Finals Reflection Paper #2

Experience as A Facilitator

My team facilitated a program entitled “Social Support as A Combat Against Stress”.

During the brainstorming as to what would be our topic, I was browsing our major textbook
reference and came across stress and affiliation and social support and its sources. While we
were all aware that there are other topic suggestions in the group, majority of the members
picked mine because of its relation and significance to our subject and most definitely our field.
After the decision, we discussed on how we would make this subject matter interesting and
entertaining. Two of my groupmates suggested two activities; Rolling in The Deep and Un-wet
The Floor. The whole planning of the program was a smooth-sailing journey.

However, the more challenging part came – the execution. Being the lecturer, it is only
vital that I connect our activities piece by piece with my part of the discussion. My talk was
designated as “Strings of A Hammock: Social Support and Its Sources.” It was fun for me to
think of a creative title with the goal of having my audience wonder about it – giving myself a
chance to get and prolong their attention all throughout my discourse. This is the first
presentation that I actually did not prepare a script for me to follow. Everything I said was
improvised. This was however made easier as I was also a small-group facilitator that looks into
the details of the execution of our program and its manifestation to our participants. To
effectively discuss my topic, I gave the audience the technical term, followed by how it was seen
during the two activities that they have experienced earlier.

In the end, seeing my group’s program being successfully accomplished gave me the
satisfaction which served as a reward for our efforts. With this task, I finally overcame my fear of
not having a script or outline to follow when presenting. My confidence level peaked as I
realized that as long as I understand what I am talking about, guiding instruments are no longer
necessary. Like the strings of a hammock, my groupmates made me believe in myself and what
I can actually do through supporting, lifting me up and gently swaying me when tensions build
up.