Bringing the Law and People's Experiences Together: LiA Reflection 1
Dear All,
Here's my week one check in.
It's been a successful start to my LiA, with lots of opportunities to learn more about POhWER, meet the staff, and understand how advocacy can make a difference to people's lives. Now that I have this background knowledge, I am super excited to see what I can get involved in during my LiA and how my understanding of leadership will change.
A definitely highlight of this week was sitting in on the executive meeting and learning about the relationship between business strategy and effective advocacy. I also really enjoyed speaking to the CEO and am excited about the projects I am now working on - they definitely stretch my brain!
I'm super proud of myself for proposing a project to one of the Heads of Service that I think will make the advocates' lives better and so improve the services they are providing to their clients.
One goal I have for next week is being more confident in the meetings, and another is continuing to create opportunities for me to make a difference to the organisation and the community they serve.
I'm looking forward to shadowing advocates next week and engaging with the community.
Speak to you soon,
Cornelia
I am a second year politics and international relations student at Downing College, Cambridge. I enjoy understanding how things work, why they work that way, and how we can make them work more effectively, and do so by using the interdisciplinary academic approach I developed during my first year of university and by emphasising the value of people's experiences for understanding.
