The Journey towards Adjourning!

In my farewell of the group I mentioned in this week's discussion it was a happy/ sad adjourning, I was excited about my new job and sad to leave my colleagues and the patients I was fond of. The team and I set goals that were accomplished, and we grew close. However, one became my friend, and we stayed in contact and saw each other occasionally. The ironic part to my farewell is that my Doctor of Chiropractic was there, and I have been seeing him and the people who stayed for the past 10 years. But the unity of being in a team does form a symbiotic bond. While I remember all the times, we struggled, in remembrance, I only speak of the good times.

A group or team that was not mentioned is a classroom, where the children and teacher set goals. We went through the Tuckman’s Model of Group Development, when I first met the children we had to teach each other, we set goals, and began to work. Eventually, we were making progress, and our schedule set, the children knew what to do and how to do it.  When observations and assessments were done, the proof of our performance was evident. In the end, watching children leave to go to another classroom or school is the hardest closing I have experience. I never forget them, and I love and miss the children.

I am going to miss discussions, where we shared our hearts and minds. It will be bittersweet, knowing that this journey is over, and we will never have this opportunity again; learning together. I will miss the Professors who pushed me to excel, and especially the ones who encouraged me to perform at a new level. Hopefully, I will never stop learning, and perhaps encounter my college colleagues in that endeavor. And there is always the possibility of meeting face to face one day.

I know that setting a goal is the beginning and the completion the ending in whenever the setting of goals. We all came here to get our Masters, and as necessary as the journey is, our sights are on obtaining our degrees. Which is an ending we all strive for, the successful conclusion of reaching our goals.