Discussion 1: Affinity Group Checkpoint #1
Throughout this course, you will have the help and support of your peers by way of various Affinity Group checkpoints.
For this Discussion, post your Life Mission and Vision Statements, Capstone selection, and 2-paragraph statement about your Capstone Research idea to the Affinity Group Discussion.
You should be purposeful in distinguishing between “mission” and “vision” in your posting.
The goal of this Discussion will be to establish your own alignment between your Life Mission and Vision Statements and your Capstone Project and to help other group members do the same. You will also assist each other in increasing the clarity of the alignment of the statements.
Assignment:
Your original post will typically be 4–5 paragraphs in length, as a general expectation:
- Life Mission Statement
- Life Vision Statement
- Description of your Capstone option:
- Proposal or Research Paper.
- Summarize your scholarly description of what your focus will be.
- What you hope to accomplish.
- How this relates to your Life Mission and Vision Statements.
- No Plagiarism
- APA citing
** See example below of
Previous student’s discussion post
Life Mission Statement
My life mission statement is to reduce some of the pain and suffering in the world by doing acts of kindness and motivating others to do the same. Acts of kindness, no matter their size, can go a long way in helping someone who is suffering. Scott Adams (1995) said, “Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” So essentially, I am trying to turn ripples into waves and make the world a better place.
Life Vision Statement
My life vision is to try to make my neighborhood, community, country, and the world better places by doing things that will prevent or reduce pain and suffering, while also motivating others to do the same. Every day, I seek opportunities to help others and end their suffering. It can be as simple as listening to a child who had a bad day at school, buying a meal for someone who is hungry, or sending a letter to a stranger that is all alone during the holidays. It can also be larger acts that take a lot of effort, time, and resources, such as implementing a program that is tailored to assist those that are suffering physically and mentally.
In addition to helping others, these acts of kindness bring me great joy and peace in my life. Those around me, like my family and friends, witness the impact these acts have on others and on me, which drives them to do kind gestures as well.
I envision each act as wind blowing across a smooth open body of water. Sometimes the intensity of the wind is light and does not last long, yet small ripples are still created and spread out as they travel across the surface of the water. As the intensity and duration of the wind increase, the ripples begin to turn into waves. The disturbance in the water becomes greater and the distance the waves can travel is more than the eye can see, well beyond the horizon.
All together – Capstone Proposal
Last week as I was trying to select a leadership topic that I could write a research paper on, I remember reflecting on the last line in Kouzes and Posner’s (2017) book The Leadership Challenge; it says “Leadership is not an affair of the head. Leadership is an affair of the heart” (p. 313). It was at that moment that I knew that I should pick a topic close to my heart and in line with my life mission and vision. That is when I decided to resurrect a project that I was working on pre-pandemic.
The project, and now my capstone proposal, is an empowerment program that will provide Congolese women, who are victims of sexual violence, with various classes, vocational training, individual and group therapy, and job placement on completion of the program. Programs like this not only help the women enrolled in the program, but better position them to help themselves on completion of the program, their children, and even other victims of sexual violence in their communities (Quattrochi et al., 2019). A program like this can help make a wave…
