This workshop was created in order to help college students cope with the stress they are going through. In my opinion, this workshop was focused on freshmen because one of the sponsors was Freshmen Seminar. It was interesting to receive a bag of raisin during this workshop. The speaker, Ryan Androsiglio asked us to do a brief exercise with a raisin. The participants of this event had to touch, smell, taste, and look at the raisin carefully. Then, once the raisin was tested with one’s four senses, he had to eat it. The goal of this experiment was to show the different perspective or feeling one receives by eating this raisin after examining so carefully. After this experiment, Ryan segued into the consciousness and the joy one reaps from paying attention.
Once again, we had another exercise, namely for relaxation. Ryan (this guy is so cool), played soothing music on his ipod to show us how to relax. We did some breathing exercises as well as some PAINFUL stretching exercises. This was Joshua King’s cue to come in to help us with his “assertive training.” We talked about the array of ways we can express ourselves. Also, Joshua had another activity called “DEAR MAN,” in which we had to write down our emotions and assert our wants. Quite interesting workshop, I must say.