APPLICATION REPORT - PLAN and ACTION (Assign 17)

This is the final assignment for the class. It is a two part report describing the application of the COPE process to a specific situation in your life.

Refer to Lesson 23 for if you need to refresh your memory about the COPE process.

Report Part 1: Plan - Using the COPE procedure, write up your plan applying it to a real life situation.

1. Think about a real situation where you could apply the COPE procedure.

2. Briefly describe your situation in which you will try implementing the COPE procedure.
3. Make a list of the thoughts and/or actions you might use to help keep you centered and focused.
4. Using the awareness wheel, determine if your wants are rational/irrational, reasonable/unreasonable. If appropriate, explain why and how you might revise your thoughts and/wants.
5. Indicate your short and long range goals/objectives related to the situation.
6. Look over the list of strategies/plans that might be used in this situation to blend and lead it in the direction you want it to go.
7. Choose two or three strategies/plans and write communication statements for each of the strategies/plans indicating what you might say to the person to start the communication process and hopefully begin to move it toward your objectives.

Here is an outline for your Applicartion Plan.

COPE - - Report Outline

Your situation: Describe it in brief

C - Your methods to center yourself: Explain this using the concepts from the Awareness Wheel.

O - Your objectives? Short and long range goals?

P - Your plan: List two or three possible strategies you might use to implement your objectives.

E - Your intended execution of your plan: Select one of the strategies and write what you intend to say or do to complete at least one communication cycle.

Part 2: Action Outcome - Write up an account of what happened

1. Describe what you did and what happened when you applied the coping skills process in the situation you selected.

2. Looking back on what you did evaluate your effectiveness in applying the skills/procedures. If it didn't turn out the way you expected, explain what might have done differently.

(Here are three examples of application reports that other people have written. You might want to take a look at them before you write your report.)

Please type the information requested in part 1 ane 2 above (Application Report: Plan and Action) and email your report to your instructor, Marshall Chatwin.

Then congratulate yourself profusely for having completed this class and go out into the world and look for some difficult people to cope with.

Or, here are a few other suggestions - "Top 10 List of Super Rewards"

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