Tongxin- Post 8 An Impressive Group Counselling Experience

I took the Group Counselling class last spring. We learned how to facilitate group activities and do psycho-education to a group. Our final assignment of the course was to design a big group activity and facilitate it. There was one group that really excited me at that time.

That group’s topic was a serious one. However, at the end of the group activity, the facilitators suddenly played a very happy and relaxing song and said to us, “Let’s dance!!!” Then the facilitators dance together!!! The whole class including the professor stopped for seconds, and then everyone began to laugh and dance!

It was a really amusing scene in my mind. As I was searching for reasons of why the serious topic was suddenly turned into a happy dancing activity (well, the song matched the topic very much), I unconsciously joined in and danced awkwardly but excitedly! 

This was a magic moment in my group guidance and counselling experiences, and I appreciated it because I think that the facilitators were creative and humorous.