The C4 Peer Success mentor, Candida Reyes, and myself have created a three part Goal Setting workshop. The first workshop was to teach the ladies in the unit how to create SMART goals for themselves. We had a nice turnout in where we explained what a SMART goal is and why it is important to create smaller, more specific goals that have deadlines and can be measured easily.
The second workshop will be about time management and what to do when they are not immediately successful. Both Candida and myself think this workshop may be the most important. Everyone knows how hard it is to stick to New Year’s Resolutions or our own SMART goals. We have the best intentions and we even schedule the activities into our daily routine. But every once in a while life intervenes and we get off track. How do we get back on track? In this workshop we’re going to spend time creating time tables of all our activities to see where we spend most of our time and then chart how much time we need for our goals. Where will those activities be put into place with all the other activities we do throughout the day? Hopefully this will teach the ladies how to create their own time tables in addition to how to make to do lists for their days in order to be more accomplished.
The third workshop will cover vision boards. It will probably be the messiest but most fun for the ladies. Collaging consists of cutting images and words out of magazines or newspapers and gluing them on to paper. This became “Vision Boards” as a way to help people inspire themselves for whatever dreams they wanted to accomplish. This workshop will be just that – scrapbooking to create pages for the women to inspire themselves. It is one of the cheapest hobbies women can pursue in prison and it allows women to express their individuality and personality to the fullest, thus it is one of the favorites. I expect the third workshop to be the biggest hit.
