OT 532 Leadership Summitt

For my second group facilitation, I am leading a group on how to take care of your pets. This is a topic that I have a lot of knowledge on, since I grew up with cats, dogs, fish, and even a turtle (just for a day) and I have been raising my dog all on my own for nearly 2 years. I love animals, especially dogs, so I was very interested to hear about other people's pets and what they do to care for them. I will be honest, I had a difficult time coming up with an activity to do for this group. I knew what frames of reference I wanted to use, and what I wanted to talk about, but I couldn't think of a fun, interactive activity that would draw members in. I researched a lot of ideas on Pinterest, but they were more appropriate for Kindergarteners, not graduate students. I received a lot of helpful advice and feedback from the other group leaders on their various topics, and I was able to provide input for other group members as well. It was very interesting to me that I was able to help someone else brainstorm ideas for their topic, which was totally the opposite of what I was doing, and others who had very different topics from myself had lots of great input. It just goes to show that we can always rely on our peers to help us out, and that we should ask questions to our future OT colleagues and colleagues from other disciplines to get a different perspective from our own.