Impending personal assignment:

1) Personal Reflection

What is your own personal leadership mission? What are your own core values? How do you handle conflict? What are you grateful for? What are the uniquely personal lessons that you should take from your service experiences? Your answers to these questions are incredibly important to your own development as a leader. Equally important, this deepening of your own self-knowledge empowers you to become a more effective mentor, guide, and role model to the students that you serve. 

2) Practice Reflection

As you confront the remarkable complexity of your daily service experiences, what personally meaningful questions should get your attention? The Idealist’s Journey will develop your skills at finding the right questions to ask about your service, and will provide you with opportunities to explore those questions with peers to ensure that you access the many invaluable leadership lessons embedded in your daily service. By providing you with regular opportunities to step away from delivering service in order to think deeply about your leadership challenges, the Idealist’s Journey strengthens your service impact while deepening your own development as a leader.

Through these two types of reflection, the Idealist’s Journey develops your self-knowledge and empowers you to more effectively understand and address complex challenges. It’s another element of our comprehensive approach to leadership development designed to ensure your success at City Year and in any field you choose to pursue after graduation.