REFLECTION-STORY TELLING

CHALLENGE

There was a classmate of mine who I’d describe to be highly energetic and social and

sprung out a lot of positivity all around her surroundings.

For some reason, I observed her to have lost all her euphoria all of a sudden and

when confronted, at first, she refused to talk about it and she dismissed the issue to be a  minor one. But I knew for the fact that the problem was indeed more profound and wanted  to solve this issue.

SELECTION

The element I used was that of storytelling because storytelling was a way in which I

feel like just stating a problem feels like you’ve taken a mountain out of your head.  Storytelling puts human beings and their experiences right where the problem is and is  given the centre stage and there’s always going to be a better understanding since  the  problem has a context to which a problem can be clearly understood.

Another reason why storytelling was impeccable was because one could connect

with each other and the feeling one gets when the realize they share a problem with  someone else is highly alleviating.

APPLICATION

On further enquiry, she had confronted that she was a victim of cyber bullying and

that she was threatened by her bullies that she would have to face dire consequences if she  spoke about it. She gave a complete insight on how she met the bully and her following  incidents that took place which put her in the situation she had then faced .I had told her  about my side of the story where I was also faced with bullying and how my bullies  threatened me to having to face dire consequences if I approached an authority and that I  had ultimately solved the issue because I broke the issue out with my parents .She  eventually broke the issue to higher authorities and had the quickly become the excited and  optimistic person she had been before.

INSIGHT AND APPROACH

Sharing my story and listening to my friends’ story made me realise the power of

sharing thoughts and it made me feel really good about how my story had empowered  another person to come out of a major problem they had faced.

Visualization was another tool I could have used by sharing internet videos that

might have helped her to speak up.

