Performance Challenge Review Paper

The performance event I chose for my initial performance challenge review was a presentation that I would give of a “lesson plan” to my entire class. It is important for me to note that this class is an education elective that I have chosen to take. I chose to take Aesthetic Learning and Development because the class is created to instruct others and myself on how to correctly teach and interact with young children. I am not going to become a teacher. Rather, I am going to become an Occupational Therapist and am starting school this August at Methodist University. However, over the course of this class, I have learned many creative and effective methods that my future young patients will be able to relate to and perform. I can implement these

Imagery is being able to create an experience in the mind. It is a form of simulation, similar to a real sensory experience, however, the entire experience solely happens in the mind (Weinberg & Gould, 2015). Imagery, contrary to popular belief, is not only using our visual senses. Rather, it encompasses our kinesthetic sense, auditory sense, tactile sense, and olfactory systems as well. Imagery, tapping into all five of our senses, allows us to recreate positive experiences where success happens and mistakes are corrected. It also allows people to picture new events in order to prepare mentally for the performance (Weinberg & Gould, 2015). This is the approach of imagery that I used in preparing for my lengthy presentation. I had never done this type of presentation before, so I did not have a presentation to recreate. Therefore, I had to picture a new event for myself. Initially picturing this new event for myself was hard for me, because I was only using my visual sense, which was depicting me presenting in front of the class. I was just standing there in my mind talking, which did not help much. I later see that visualizing me doing my event is only one piece of imagery, so it makes sense as to why only visualizing my presentation was not as effective. I then added the other four senses. I started with visual, seeing myself in my scrubs standing at the front of the classroom. Then I added the kinesthetic sense, which is moving around, feeling the body as it moves in difference positions (Weinberg & Gould, 2015). I could then see myself moving around the classroom, weaving in-between the treatment tables (desks), and bending down to interact with and help my “patients.” I could feel what it would be like to glide around the classroom, moving my arms around as I demonstrated proper arm motions as we practiced our activities of daily living. I then heard my voice, how it would sound as I spoke gently to my