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Go With The Flow

4/11/2020

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This post is submitted by Annisa, a high school sophomore and peer team builder. 
​My greatest lesson as a young team builder, that I have learned so far, has been learning to go with the flow and being confident even when my facilitation and/or plans do not go exactly how I want them to.
In the beginning of my time facilitating, I only felt confident in briefing and debriefing activities when I had a very well-organized plan and my entire peer leader team knew exactly what was going to happen during a class period.
 
An experience that really tested this, and shook my confidence, happened early on in our semester. We had planned to pull another leader’s car and debrief and talk about the importance of effort in our Adventure class. Unfortunately, the leader whose car we were planning on pulling was late to class, which meant that we had to re-plan the entire class period within the 7 minutes of passing period we had before the class started. For someone who needs to be planned, this was extremely stressful for me because I felt very unprepared being a new leader who was not very used to facilitating to begin with.
 
During the class, my co-leaders and I 'pulled' together very well as a team and we were able to have a very successful experience even though most of it was unplanned. This unexpected situation challenged not only my need to be organized, but also my confidence.
 
The lesson that I learned from this very stressful situation was that even when things don’t go according to plan, you can still be confident and facilitate through it. I think that I have used this new-found confidence daily in my Adventure class because each and every day things go wrong and things don’t go entirely according to plan. Now, I am ready and confident when I need to improvise during a facilitation. 
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12/14/2020 01:11:02 am

For someone who wants everything to be planned, it is hard for me to go with the flow. It stresses me out when I do not know what will happen next because I want to make sure that everything will go according to plan. I am a perfectionist, so I want to make sure that there will be no room for failure. However, as the years go by, I realize how exhausting it is to try to always keep everything in place. Things will not always work out the way we want them to, so it is good to go with the flow sometimes and let the universe take its course.

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