Overview
For this assignment, you will participate in an immersive experience and complete a reflection worksheet based on this experience. As outlined in Weeks 5 and 6, your Week 7 assignment will require you to attend or participate in one experience that relates to a marginalized population. This activity will provide you with the opportunity to learn about this marginalized population. Once you have completed the immersive experience, use the assignment template to reflect on your experience, then submit it.
Prepare
Before you complete this assignment, you must participate in or attend an activity or event of a marginalized population different from your own, including but not limited to a religious service; workshop, seminar, or lecture; meeting or event for a multicultural organization; museum or exhibit; podcast or documentary; or some other experience approved by your instructor. The activity or event you select may be in person or virtual, but you must spend at least two hours engaged in the experience.
Use past assignments and readings to carefully select the marginalized group or population and the experience for this activity. Past experiences are not to be used for this assignment. This immersive experience should be engaged with a marginalized group or population with which you have limited knowledge or the most preconceived ideas. This activity will provide you with the opportunity to learn about this marginalized population.
Instructions
Using the Immersive Experience [DOCX] template, complete the following to reflect on the meaning and significance of the experience.
The Selected Population.
Explain a rationale for selecting the population you selected.
Include scholarly references that support this population’s marginal status.
The Cultural Experience.
Explain the cultural experience.
Supports the explanation with specific examples.
Your Personal Reactions.
Explain aspects of the cultural experience that were most personally relatable and those that were most personally challenging.
Support the explanation with specific examples.
Your Personal Reflections.
Explain how this cultural experience prompted personal changes or insights (in bias, values, perspectives, prejudices, beliefs, et cetera).
Supports the explanation with specific examples.
Your Professional Practice.
Explain considerations to help counselors be effective with members of this population.
Offer specific examples as support.
Your Professional Presentation.
As you write your reflection on the meaning and significance of the immersive experience you selected, communicate using professionally appropriate language and writing mechanics acceptable for professional counseling settings.
Submission Requirements
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
Template: Use the Immersive Experience [DOCX] template to complete this assignment.
Written communication: Written communication must be grammatically correct and free of errors that detract from the overall message. Writing should be consistent with the graduate-level scholarship. Note: Because this is your own reflection, you may write it in the first person.
