Ethnodrama and How it has Affected Me

When I first added this class to my schedule, I had no idea just how profoundly it was going to affect me. The main way that I see and feel the changes within myself are in the forms of compassion and listening. While I have always viewed myself as a compassionate person, listening to and really taking in these stories that are full of struggle and of trauma has opened my eyes a bit more to how much your everyday person can go through. I have been fortunate in that my life has been safe from many struggles, though the result of that is a lack of knowledge and maybe even slight ignorance to the fact that a lot of people within my own life have been through immense struggles. It has been easier to imagine and put myself in the shoes of others due to this class.