Key Blog Post Two

The collaborative aspect within this unit x in my experience have been up and down this came as a huge surprise to me as I have previously never worked in a group with people from different disciplines and so I expected everything to go perfectly.

 As I expressed in my blog post during the last day DACA we all put our name on a sheet except from one person. That was the starting point of the down fall. The group minus one spoke over the holiday about the workshop and the girl posted on the unit x group so I quickly added her to the group chat. I feel like she felt slightly left out but I tried to get hold of her and I didn’t no her name. There were eight of us that were added so I can’t believe that she didn’t, or one of the other eight didn’t know each other’s name so it could have been resolved in the holidays. In hindsight I now realise I could have emailed Clare or Anna to ask for her name. We sent the research we had done and at that point everything was fine. Until we were trying to make group meetings and in my opinion some people had their priorities messed up for example; not being able to meet because they was traveling and wanted 9 hours sleep and if they came to the meeting it would only be 6 hours. Another example of this was someone who couldn’t meet because they wanted to go and get a tattoo. 

This process of trying to find times we could all meet was extremely frustrating as it left and unfamiliarity within the group. But it wasn’t all bad I have took some things away with me for example that from the start make sure everyone is involved and always have set meeting times in advance and setting up an easier way in which information can be relayed to people that weren’t there instead of long confusing Facebook chats.

This also meant that if the whole group wasn’t there we weren’t working collaboratively and everyone’s personal art discipline didn’t impact on the workshop as a whole and also on me personally. This was something that really interested me and so I hope I can do this from now on.

When we finally got together we began to roughly plan the workshop, writing everything that needed to be done and giving each of us a job to do including; power point, financial organiser, letter home, photographer, lesson plan/time management,  risk assessment etc. This made me feel like there was a set plan and I got on with my job of financial advisor looking for protective body suits etc. for the children to wear during the workshop. Hopefully everyone will stick to their job and carry it out so the day can go off without a hitch.

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 I feel like there needs to be more communication and work on the workshop as I personally and some others in the group feel that the plan isn’t set and the time management for it isn’t properly set up. This is a let-down of our group I feel time management we have had set backs throughout for example people not making group meetings. I can’t say that I myself have been a complete angel as I missed one meeting due to a hospital appointment. I have enjoyed working within a group and would like to do this in my future practice but in a familiar or smaller group so that time and communication can be properly managed.

From now we need to push forward with additional meetings sorting out and exact plan and a script so each of knows exactly what we are saying and when. I also brought it up to the group that we should make it more relevant so I need to research into how we could do this. The key development of our group meeting have been learning how to work collaboratively and hear everyone out. We are planning to create some abstract emotional pieces in our workshop as well as use the powder paint. These are both new things to me and I am looking forward to learning new processes and using new media and seeing if I can relate it back to my own practice.

1st rough plan

We also got a plan together for Federation house this took a while but we came together as a group of 18 and came up with a great feedback activity. The plan now is in the group to push forward to make plans and personally to carry out my financial job.