In the audio clip below, I have discussed the following questions:

• How did I maintain my motivation for this activity?
• What impact did my commitment have on the success of this activity?
• What things affected my commitment levels, ability to persevere or resolve?

 

In the audio below, I discussed the following questions:

• How did I maintain my motivation for this activity?
• How did I help others or how did others help me to stay committed to this activity?
• What things affected my commitment levels, ability to persevere or my resolve?

Here are a few of the workshops I have attended so far:

Here is our planning so far:

The first few sessions of IFP went quite well. After the session on conflict, its nature, its domain and its types, I can sufficiently say that I understand a lot more about it more about it now. I used to think that all types of conflicts were very similar in nature in that they arose from disagreement and could be physical or emotional. Now I think that conflict is a multifaceted concept that has different domains and can even be psychological. In this session we also learnt about the different types of conflict like regional, global, international, community, etc…

I showed my commitment, resilience and perseverance for this activity by attending every session so far and engaging with the content. Alongside showing my commitment this has been very rewarding for me personally as I have gotten the chance to learn about topics such as conflict, in depth.I continued to maintain my motivation for this activity by thinking of the invaluable knowledge that I would gain by being a part of such an activity. Although MY commitment didn’t make the activity “successful”, I truly believe that it helped my knowledge of topics related to peace building, which added to the activity’s aim of teaching students to be successful peace builders. One of the activities that we did was drawing each other’s portraits.

Here is the portrait I drew:

Here is my portrait:

The first IFP sessions went quite well. We completed an activity wherein we had to build a lego structure with specific goals in mind which we couldn’t tell anybody else about. While striving to accomplish our goals there came a point where we were inevitably against the goals of someone else. The fact that we couldn’t verbally communicate made it very hard for us to explain to each other that we were not trying to sabotage their goals but just accomplish ours. This was a great exercise for enhancing our communication skills as we realised how important they were quiet soon. After the activity was over, we sat down together and reflected on what we could have potentially done better. The unanimous idea was that we needed to be more patient and understanding towards each other.

Through IFP, I hope to show commitment and resilience. This is because attending IFP sessions every week from 4.30-6.00 commitment and perseverance. It is especially important to remain committed to the activity for the final outcome to be successful. I maintained my motivation for this activity by thinking of the final outcome (learning about peace building and putting it into application). Others helped me maintain my commitment levels by encouraging me to push forward when I was tired or tried to motivate me by reminding me of the wonderful opportunity that this is.

 

Something that affected my commitment levels a lot was that I had a lot of deadlines/tests surrounding the days of the sessions so it was quite difficult for me to remain motivated to attend all the sessions. However, I did attend all sessions by utilising my time from 3-4.30 to complete all pending tasks. This also taught me self management.