Becoming Self Aware

- What is your role in helping the freshmen students become self aware?
     My role as a peer mentor is to facilitate students in their own journey of becoming self aware.  I set up the situation for them to analyze their own awareness and guide them as they ask questions and share their own experiences.- How do you think you can do this?
     I set up the situation by doing activities very much like the ones we did in class on tuesday.  Another thing that is extremely important is reflecting on what you realize during these activities.  I have learned from being a education major that reflecting is a integral part of developing and becoming aware of how things work and how you can make them better.  I believe this is so because once your thoughts and feelings get put on paper you can go back to them and rethink them from time to time.  This is why in lecture I brought up the fact that perhaps our students should blog more then they have in the past, perhaps for every class period like we do!
- What kinds of questions can you ask to make them more self aware?
     Questions like those posed in activity 5.1 are very good, questions that make you think about yourself and how you perceive the world you live in.  for the most part I believe that people don't really reflect everyday on who they are and how they interact with the world, so this activity poses questions that make them do that.- After looking at your activity 5.4 results, make 3 goals to improve your self-awareness.

    My lowest area was emotional awareness primarily the areas of self content and change.  I have never been good at dealing with change that was not controlled by me, I always like to be in the middle of everything that is happening and being a part of the change not just affected by it. I need to become a little better at going with the flow and taking stuff as it comes.
     I also used to be overweight and I have worked hard over the last three years to be where I am today.  I believe that my low self content is a after effect of my low self esteem during that period of my life.  I am still working towards being content with my self so my goal is to become whole and happy.
   My last goal is to become more spiritual, maybe not in the go to church every Sunday sense, but spiritual in the sense of finding something that makes me feel whole and happy!