Section LC06

On October 29th, I attended the Mediating Conflict and Resolving Disputes workshop held in the Vertical Campus on floor 3, room 190. At this workshop, the leaders helped relay information to us that may help us in case we are in a bind. These type of binds can develop through class problems, group problems, or problems that just come out of nowhere. The most important thing they told us to do was confront the issue peacefully and don’t let it linger. By confronting it right away, there would be a better chance of nipping the issue early, rather than have it escalate. When confronting this issue they told us to make sure we don’t go into it with a chip on our shoulder and feel like we have to get our point across and just leave it at that. We have to be ready to negotiate and accept that we may have done something wrong and that we should amend our mistakes. They told us to stay clear of things that may seem like trouble and have a great, peaceful time at Baruch College.

After attempting various of times to attend this workshop, finally on November 10th 2009 at 12:45pm, I was lucky enough to get in. Even though the workshop started at one, I had learned my lesson about this particular workshop and attend early with other fellow classmates.

The goal of this workshop was for us to learn a technique on how to reduce our stress. We had a meditation for approximately ten minutes, and we did a short exercise that one can perform just about anywhere. I had chosen this workshop because stress is something that you go through usually on a daily basis and if there’s a way to learn short techniques in figuring how to control it or just relax it, then that is good information that I am willing to hear. This workshop was not out of my comfort zone, in fact both of the presenters, Ryan Androsiglio, PhD and Joshua King, MS (that is what the paper they gave us said) had very soothing voices. I do not want to sound comical but there were people falling asleep to it during meditation, and it was funny that the CD(they play a CD that was suppose to help us during the meditation process) the man said do not be alarm and you find yourself falling a sleep. Or if you can not relax for a long period of time, which was what I was doing since I could not concentrate without something or someone distracting me.

It meet my expectations because even though I felt the time period was too long, while we were in their, it passed by very quickly. From the workshop I received this “muscle relaxation” exercisewhich is quick and you can do it almost anywhere. It is interesting on how the things mentioned in the workshop, are things I would sometimes do without noticing, especially the things on the muscle relaxation sheet, like how to stretch from you toes all the way up to your head. It was a good experience overall, definitely recommend if you want to listen to a way to relax.

Name of Workshop: Look at Title

Date: 11/10/09

Time: 1pm-2pm

Where: Room 4-220 at the VC building

Me, Kali and Ashley went to this event. He started talking about stress then gave us raisins. He made us look at it, then feel it, then smell it, then put it in our mouths, THEN chew it, and finally swallow it. He made us do them in detail. Then his twin brother came  and made us do some kind of stress meditation or something. It was cool but i was very sleepy and i didn’t really benefit from all of the exercises except for when he made us relax our legs. i really felt the “stress coming out” from there.