SELF DISCLOSURE REFLECTION

Self Disclosure Reflection

Self Disclosure Reflection

People with different preferences and backgrounds naturally behave differently. I have been experienced many interesting activities during Organisation Behaviour and Change class and the one that made a great impression on me is the hand activity.

Experience

After the forming of our group, we started this task that brought each member involvement. In the task, we were asked to talk about five main factors that have affected our lives so far. Every body had five minutes to draw their left-hand on a paper and wrote each factor on each finger. Later on, we took turn to introduce and talk about ourselves. There were five people in our group that time and we have just committed to work as a group assignment. Each member comes from different countries such as Glynn and Claudia from Australia, Sharean from India, Elvy from China and me from Vietnam. Observing from other's expression, I found each member was eager to talk about himself or herself. Glynn started the task with his five factors and events with significant importance in his life. As he was the first to talk, everybody paid much attention to him. We sometimes gave him encouragement by nodding our head and repeating something we could not understand. And when it came to my turn, I felt quite comfortable mentioning those five important factors that has affected my life; they are my close friend, my self -motivation, my parents, my first job and the new cultural environment of Australia. When I started talking about them, the other member listened intensively. At that moment I could feel that my partners were really interested in what I was saying and those manners truly encouraged me to express more about myself. As each member in our group came from different backgrounds, we had different stories to tell. It could be seen at that time that our attitude were “ we want to know more about different people from different backgrounds”. That is the reason why everybody seemed to be very open to each other. We did not hesitate to reveal our private stories that should be shared between closed friends solely. At first I thought I would say something in general about my life but when Glynn let us know that his previous broken emotional relationship had made a great change to his life, we could feel his sincerity and the sympathy from the others toward him as “I know how you feel”. And I decided to be open to them more about some important events in my life. Sharean and Elvy let us know about their family, their friends and the reason why they are here for studying as well. They had shown to be sincere and open-minded people. From this exercise I found that people changed from being cautious into open attitudes when talking about themselves. These attitudes brought everybody closer to each other, especially when we were on the progress of getting to know each ...