Friday - New Ways of Doing EVERYTHING!!
I am starting the end of the first week with two interns! I haven't done this is in a long time, and I am having to change up lots of the things that have become a pattern with me. This is a good opportunity for me to evaluate what works and to try new things, so I'm going to do just that.
My bullet journaling set-up is changing because my senior intern is running her own groups right now. I no longer have to strategize for every group and individual session that happens. That changes the space that I need in my book. I've decided to try more creativity in my journal and to actually use color in that book as well. Before now, I've stuck with pencil so I can erase. I'm trying to be bolder right now...color is where I'm starting.
I'm finding that I need more things to do while I'm watching and listening to my intern running her groups. I'm doing lots of sitting rather than running groups, and that may be some of my exhaustion. I'm not doing what I usually do. Hmm. That's an interesting revelation to add to yesterday's list.
It is time to start making and refreshing things for my music therapy clinic. I need some projects that I can do while I am listening and watching what is going on with my students and my intern. It also makes the time go by faster. I have a problem sharing my clients with others, even with my selected interns, but I know that this is an important step for my clients and for those interns, so I make the sacrifice. Poor me (totally snarky comment, by the way!).
I'm thinking about starting up some bullet journal type stickers for me to use as an internship director. I have an orientation list sticker idea. All of the other sticker ideas are coming to me from the various assignments that I've developed over the years. I wonder if any other internship directors would use that type of resource...hm. Teachers Pay Teachers idea, maybe??
This is a season of change for me. It's a good thing - a way to stretch and grow through my own way of doing things to find a new way of being. It is a bit confusing at times, but times like these are good for the soul and for the professional demeanor.
Someone posted a question about a "burnout year" on social media yesterday. The question made it seem that the poster thought that burnout was inevitable during the fifth year of being a music therapist. I find that so very sad because it means that this person is not expecting to make it in this profession. I guess that it's a good sign that the person is asking about ways to avoid this situation, but I don't know that the situation is really all that prevalent. I wonder if anyone has actually studied this or if it is just something that someone believes and states as fact. My fifth year of professional identity was not a burnout year for me. I started a new part-time job, kept working on my master's degree, and expanded my social circle a bit. I also started my internship that year and was supervising music therapy students. Burnout was the last thing on my mind in year five. Was I just lucky? I hope not. I hope I wasn't the exception but the rule in this case.
Anyway, that started me thinking about ways to help others combat burnout. I'll work on that later this afternoon...
My bullet journaling set-up is changing because my senior intern is running her own groups right now. I no longer have to strategize for every group and individual session that happens. That changes the space that I need in my book. I've decided to try more creativity in my journal and to actually use color in that book as well. Before now, I've stuck with pencil so I can erase. I'm trying to be bolder right now...color is where I'm starting.
I'm finding that I need more things to do while I'm watching and listening to my intern running her groups. I'm doing lots of sitting rather than running groups, and that may be some of my exhaustion. I'm not doing what I usually do. Hmm. That's an interesting revelation to add to yesterday's list.
It is time to start making and refreshing things for my music therapy clinic. I need some projects that I can do while I am listening and watching what is going on with my students and my intern. It also makes the time go by faster. I have a problem sharing my clients with others, even with my selected interns, but I know that this is an important step for my clients and for those interns, so I make the sacrifice. Poor me (totally snarky comment, by the way!).
I'm thinking about starting up some bullet journal type stickers for me to use as an internship director. I have an orientation list sticker idea. All of the other sticker ideas are coming to me from the various assignments that I've developed over the years. I wonder if any other internship directors would use that type of resource...hm. Teachers Pay Teachers idea, maybe??
This is a season of change for me. It's a good thing - a way to stretch and grow through my own way of doing things to find a new way of being. It is a bit confusing at times, but times like these are good for the soul and for the professional demeanor.
Someone posted a question about a "burnout year" on social media yesterday. The question made it seem that the poster thought that burnout was inevitable during the fifth year of being a music therapist. I find that so very sad because it means that this person is not expecting to make it in this profession. I guess that it's a good sign that the person is asking about ways to avoid this situation, but I don't know that the situation is really all that prevalent. I wonder if anyone has actually studied this or if it is just something that someone believes and states as fact. My fifth year of professional identity was not a burnout year for me. I started a new part-time job, kept working on my master's degree, and expanded my social circle a bit. I also started my internship that year and was supervising music therapy students. Burnout was the last thing on my mind in year five. Was I just lucky? I hope not. I hope I wasn't the exception but the rule in this case.
Anyway, that started me thinking about ways to help others combat burnout. I'll work on that later this afternoon...
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