TED Style Talk Reflection Journal

Journal writing provides a more informal opportunity to reflect on learning, growth, and potential. Journals can also help strengthen writing skills. They afford a time and space for you to do more reflective thinking about topics related to the material, as well as to your own personal and professional goals.

Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:

· Integrate previous insights from your Odyssey Plan and positive psychology into your TED Talks script.

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Resources

· File: Personal Odyssey Plan Reflections

· File: Personal Hero’s Journey Reflections

· File: Ted Style Talk Reflection Journal

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Background Information

Recall the work you completed on your Odyssey Plan, as well as previous journal entries in which you reflected on the Hero’s Journey. In this journal entry, you will add to those reflections and incorporate material you have learned thus far about positive psychology. Further, you will describe your vision for your life, as well as some goals you have. You can tie these together to build on your ideas for your TED Style Talk.

In this assignment, you will add to your TED Style Talk. You will add this as a new journal entry to your previous journal entries, but submit only this new entry to your instructor.

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Instructions

1. Open your ongoing Ted Style Talk Reflection Journal that you have saved in a Word document.

2. Title this new journal entry  PSY-535 2.5 Ted Style Talk, <Day, Month Year>. As you write your journal during this session, reflect on the following questions:

a. In previous courses, you were exposed to both the Hero’s Journey and the fact that you will eventually develop a TED Style Talk in the final course in this program. In this journal entry, you will continue thinking and writing about your TED Style Talk by creating a narrative that incorporates some of what you learned about lifespan development, the history of psychology, life coaching and positive psychology thus far.

b. You will also write about what you envision for your life as you move toward realizing some of your life goals.

c. Reflect on your Odyssey Plan, which you created in PSY-520. How have you applied that plan and what has changed in your plan? 

3. Your entry should be a minimum of 400 words.

4. When you’ve completed this assignment, save a copy for yourself and submit your Ted Style Talk Reflection Journal Word document to your instructor using the Assignment submission page by the end of the workshop .

5. Reminder : You will be participating in a call with your Instructor in the next workshop, so make a note of any thoughts, ideas, or issues you have about your TED Style Talk during this activity and talk about them in Workshop Three.