Group Presentation Paper

The group presentation started with the Lynn, the facilitator, who began by building rapport with the participants by thanking everyone for coming and participation. Lynn, the facilitator set the ground rules by educating the group members about confidentially, and the establishing of a safe environment. Lynn also emphasis the important of speaking of one personal experience and not others. After the ground rules were done by Lynn she gave the group members the opportunity to add any other rules they think were important to them. This gave them a sense of empowerment. This group is a very diverse group. The group consist of 4 females and 2 males from different ethical, cultural, gender, professional and educational background. Due to the

For example, when Lynn divided the group into two groups of threes and each group member had a minute to introduce themselves to each other, it was interested to observe that Lynn as the facilitator use the icebreaker activity as one way to look at diversity and how it impacted each member of the group. After the members finish introducing each other, she asked the question, “what you have heard the other said about you, were they accurate? It was amazing to observe the ethical issue that aroused, the miscommunication and misrepresentation of each other introduction, but because the members felt safe within the group it was easy for them to express the way the feel on the

However, from my observation it look as if most of the members were acculturated into the American culture. Therefore, they were very vocal, impartial and educated. Members and facilitator handles indifference with respect which promotes high participation among each members, each had equally saying within the group. The facilitator was very knowledgeable of the subject matter and had excellent leadership skill. For example of some of the leadership skills the facilitator illustrated were encouraging participation. This was done by avoiding leading the group but allowing the members to express themselves freely, but only make suggestion or ask questions that are open and broad when necessary. One way in which she demonstrated this skill was when Theresa paraphrase and said that Steve was “white” instead of “American”, she asked an open and broad questions to all members about how they felt hearing what someone had to report about them to the