Goodbye Garden Ritual
Instructions
A number of ending rituals have been shared with the class in the lecture. These can be used as the time to wind down your client work draws near. This week’s module asks you to develop or find your own symbolic ending ritual.
For this assignment you are provided an opportunity to let your creative juices flow and develop a ritual for ending your work with clients. Do not use the ones from the lecture as much as you may like them. Develop an activity or another way of acknowledging the ending of your time, work, and relationship with a client (group, family, individual, or community). For those who are not creative, you can do some sleuthing and see if you can find an interesting way of “ritualizing” or acknowledging the time you have spent together, the work you have done, and the relationship you have built.
In this presentation of your written assignment, include the following:
- Introduction
- Provide a thorough description of your ritual.
- Rationale
- What do you like about this “ritual”?
- Do you think it will be useful?
- Is there a specific client you had in mind when you settled on this ritual? Give some context as to what connects the client and work done with this particular ritual.
- Do you think you will use this ritual moving forward or was there another (that was shared in the lecture) that you prefer? Speak to what draws you to that particular ritual.
Requirements
Goodbye Garden Ritual
- Turn in your written assignment as a Word document (not a PDF) by the due date.
- The length of your introduction section may vary depending on your ritual, but be sure to clearly explain your ritual.
- The length of your rationale section should be 500-700 words total.
- The ritual, introduction, and rationale should all reflect thoughtfulness.
- Goodbye Garden Ritual
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What is your original ritual, and how does it work?,
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What do you like about this ritual?,
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Why do you believe it will be useful?,
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Is there a specific client or case that inspired this ritual?,
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Will you use this ritual moving forward or prefer another from the lecture?