AMK Minds Reflection

While participating in this service, I was able to learn about and how to interact with people who have ID. This was a new area of learning for me and I got to apply the new-found knowledge when meeting with our clients. This was incredibly eye-opening as I really got to have a deeper understanding of people who are different from me and allowed me to interact with a whole new group of people. I think a shortcoming was that it was quite far so it took some time to reach the centre and return which didn’t allow much time for us to actually teach them new skills and interact with them, however, I think that in the future we could use the long travel time to discuss what we learned in the previous session and how we can improve, etc. Another reason could be that the clients may not have that much stamina to learn for a longer period of time. This was an enjoyable service for me as I was able to use skills that I usually wouldn’t, which allowed me to step out of my comfort zone. I would definitely consider doing a service like this again.