Leadership in Human Service Profession

 In your responses to at least two of your classmates, compare and contract your respective views of the fundamental concepts and current state of the field with respect to leadership and the human services.150 words of response to each discussion forum

Forum 1:Leadership in Human Service Profession

According to the article Dialogue by Co-Intelligence Institute, ‘dialogue is shared exploration towards greater understanding, connection, or possibility (Co-Intelligence Institute, 2003). Basically, this is to say that not all communication is dialogue. Dialogue can at times be truly charmed, melting the limitations between us and the world and boarding up fountains of understanding and reverberating power. A flash of grace occurs when occurrence upsurges as we practice listening more intensely exploring more acquiescently with one another. A form of dialogue is how we often talk about things that are really important to us or things that interest us. For example, my two biggest passions are traveling and playing rugby. Whenever someone brings up the idea of traveling and or playing rugby, I get so passionate and inspire to keep the conversation going just so I can relate to them. The definition of dialogue affects the understanding of leadership within the human services profession simply because unless a human service individual is passionate about the career that they have chosen, they won’t be able to properly do their job. So many times, I have seen individuals that are extremely rude to their clients simply because they have no passion for their jobs, they are mostly working for the paycheck. In the article The Power of Mindful Leadership by Bill George, George asserts that ‘mindfulness is the practice of self-observation without judgment with a focus on our minds and inner voices’ (George, 2015). This is to say that we live a very fast-paced life that often we ought to be mindful of our surroundings, how we interact with one another, and how distracted we are. In a fast-paced world, mindfulness enables a person to clear their mind, focus on the important aspects of their life, as well as encourages creativity.

 

                                                           References

Co-Intelligence Institute. (2003). Dialogue. Retrieved from http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-dialogue.html (Links to an external site.)

George, B. (2015). The power of mindful leadership. Huffington Post. Retrieved from

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-george/the-power-of-mindful-lead_b_7878482.html

Forum 2: Leadership in Human Services Profession

Human services are beneficial services meant to help the less fortunate, and therefore human service professionals are concerned with bringing in activities for empowering vulnerable social groups. The human service industry has various human life challenges like emotionally forcing interactions and job opportunity-related stressors. Human life challenges result in traumatic stress and psychological disorders (Harker et al., 2016).  However, despite these challenges, less effort has been created to enable human services to persist and paddle for success. Psychological factors such as mindfulness related to cultivating can eradicate human life challenges in the human service industry.

Mindfulness is a self-understanding practice and takes necessary precautions that benefit without judgment, focusing on minds and inner voices. Mindful practices comprise regular exercising, eating a balanced diet, praying, and meditation (George, 2015). Mindfulness practices like regular exercising keep the body active and prevent health problems. Reflections as a mindfulness practice help one to focus on important things rather than focusing on unnecessary things. Meditations help to build resilience to deal with challenging times.

Mental health is the wellness of an individual to sustain the daily pressures of life. It is what makes life enjoyable, fulfilling, and productive. Mental health needs to be improved to avoid mental illness (Power, 2010). Building resilience and individual strengths can help to promote mental health. Strengthening families helps to stop mental health because it supports stability; it gives family members a peaceful mind to settle their needs. Similarly, to improve mental health, an individual's economic environment and social health must be improved and not communities.

Dialogue is where people share their thoughts on what is essential to achieve greater possibility, understanding, or connection. Understanding dialogue can be through three types of communication: antagonistic communication, creative communication, and banal communication. Open discussion is a dialogue that happens when the communications lack structure, procedures, or disciplines. The benefits of open dialogue include finding common ground and revealing assumptions for reevaluation. Tools for open discussion include popcorn and other circle changing, stone and chime, penny for thoughts, facilitation, and retaining a common center.

In conclusion, mindfulness, mental health, and dialogue affect the human service profession's leadership. Mindfulness involves administration within the human service profession by encouraging physical exercises to curb the challenge of emotionally forcing interaction. Building resilience and individual strengths that promote mental health affect leadership within my human service by depriving job-related stressors that might result in low job vacancies (Power, 2010). Dialogue brings peace and new ideas within my human service profession, making it successful and prospers without members' complaints.  

                                                         

                                      

                                                            References

George, B. (2015). The Power of Mindful Leadership. Huffington Post. Retrieved from

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-george/the-power-of-mindful-lead_b_7878482.html (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)

Harker, R., Pidgeon, A., Klaassen, F., & King, S. (2016). Exploring Resilience and Mindfulness as Preventative Factors for Psychological Distress Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress among Human Service Professionals. Work, 54(3), 631-637. https://doi.org/10.3233/wor-162311 (Links to an external site.)

Power, A. (2010). Transforming the Nation's Health: Next Steps in Mental Health Promotion. American Journal Of Public Health, 100(12), 2343-2346. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2010.192138 (Links to an external site.)