Anticipations and preconceptions are an important determinant of how people learn, so before you read on, you should record some of what you are experiencing now as you begin the course.
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It’s important to get these impressions noted down now, because new ideas and new impressions will quickly overlay the experience. What you are experiencing now will be re-interpreted as new understandings emerge. You are also likely to form some judgements about your expectations. So before any of that can happen, you are encouraged to make some notes on your responses to the questions in the activity below. You will need to keep referring back to them as the course progresses.
The notes you make for this and other activities will be important if you truly want to work towards becoming a systems practitioner rather than just someone using a systems tool or technique, so you should do them as conscientiously as possible. Their role in developing your skills will become more evident as you work through the course and will also be useful after you have completed it. Your notes should capture as many elements of your responses as possible. So do please keep a record in a journal – whether a physical notebook or a digital one of some form – as you work through the activities in this course, as they are an important aspect of reflective practice. Alternatively, you might like to record your answers to activities in their associated text boxes.
Allow approximately 15 minutes for this activity.
Fifteen minutes may seem like a large amount of time to spend on this activity, but thinking about the issues carefully is likely to take that long. Here are prompts to help you:
How do you rate your overall capacity to succeed in this course?
You first need to decide what, for you, would constitute success.