NCDA: Facilitating Career Development (WFRS)

The purpose of this activity is to help you gain insight into your motives for helping, your personal strengths and weaknesses as a helper, and how your personal values and biases can affect your ability to help others. 

Think about a past situation where you tried to help another person and answer the following questions. Try to be as honest with yourself as possible. 

Post your responses below.  You will reply with 2 posts:  Your 1st post will be your original answers to these questions. The 2nd post will be what you discovered from your teammate's comments (if you are in one-to-one instruction, answer these questions and you will discuss your responses with your instructor during your face-to-face meeting).   

1. What were your motives for helping this person?

2. Did you benefit from this relationship in any way? How?

3. What was your role in the helping relationship? In what way do you think you helped this person? Looking back, is there anything that you might have done differently?

4. Was there anything that this person did, said, or believed that you did not agree with? How did you react?

5. Did you learn anything from this relationship?