Course Takeaways

I got a lot out of this course and I would recommend it to anyone. I grew emotionally a lot from this class. I am a recovering drug addict and this class taught me a lot on how to deal with my addiction. The number one thing I got out of this class is how to be a good listener. Before this class I always thought I was a pretty good listener, boy was I wrong, I was not even close. There is a big difference in hearing someone speak and listening to someone speak. I learned that body language plays a big part in it. My communicating skills have improved a lot. I also learned how to resolve conflicts that right way and I plan on to keep using these skills the rest of my life. I never knew there was a correct way to argue. I thought I was just suppose to yell and scream until I was tired of yelling and that was the end of it. This class humbled me, and it caused me to do a lot of soul searching and self-discovery. It's funny because I treated this class almost like a hour long, twice a week therapy session, the only thing lacking was a couch for me to lay on. There was so many things I learned about myself from the activities I did in the work book, especially the ones where there was like 15 to twenty statements or questions and I would have to answer yes or no, or on a scale how much I agreed with it. At the end of the exercise there would be a scoring technique and depending on the exercise it would ask how many times did you say this or how may times did you mark false. Then there was a scale and depending on which exercise a score of 1-8 meant something and 9-14 meant something else and 15-20 meant something else as well. In a lot of these scoring exercises they were pretty much on point in what score represented about myself, a lot of times it shocked me as well. I would sit there and say to myself wow how do they do that and know that about me, and in some cases I would get mad, but like the old saying states "sometimes the truth hurts." But anyway in all I really enjoyed this class and looked forward to going to it every week and seeing how what my life has instore for me with these new ideas I have learned from this class. The name of this course fits it perfectly.