Assignment. Capstone Reflection Journal – Developing Your Capstone Project

Getting Started Remember, this assignment is separate from your TED-style talk assignment. The TED talk and the Capstone Project are two separate projects that you will be working on, refining, and implementing in the next few courses. Throughout the Masters in Psychology program, we have been referring to a capstone project that you will be working on. We’ve structured it so that you have been sequentially working on pieces of the project along the way. You began thinking about a topic in your very first course, then you completed a literature review in PSY-561, and then completed an outline of the content in a broad manner to get some general direction. In PSY 561, you also reviewed your journals and previous coursework to begin a deeper dive into what your Capstone Project will look like. Also, keep in mind that your Capstone Project idea needs to meet these three criteria also highlighted in PSY 561: · Your project needs to engage a small group of people. · It needs to be related to life coaching and/or positive psychology. · It needs to reflect the work you’ve completed in your literature review from PSY-561. Do you remember this example about gratitude? A Capstone Project could be demonstrating gratitude to a few people in your life by writing and delivering meaningful gratitude letters to them and measuring your level of happiness before and after the visits. Another capstone idea mentioned could be designing a brief series of life coaching lessons for young adults and then sharing the information with a small group over a three-week period of time with pre- and post-tests to assess the impact of your work. You could also decide to create a positive psychology podcast series and share it on YouTube or Facebook with a small group of friends and family and ask them for feedback. You are only limited by your imagination and the three criteria mentioned above. You should have a better idea of what you are doing for your Capstone Project based on what you have done so far, especially after working through assignments in PSY 561. If you are still struggling with what you are doing, please do reach out to your instructor as soon as possible. As a reminder, over these next two specialization courses (PSY-562, 563), you will continue to work on components of your Capstone Project. In this course, PSY-562, you will refine it. In PSY-563, you will finalize the details so that you are ready to implement your plan and evaluate the outcome in PSY-590. So, this course allows you to refine and focus your project idea. Because you have chosen the life coaching and positive psychology specialization in your program, you also want to keep in mind that your project should be related to some aspect of life coaching and/or positive psychology. Ideally, you will also want your project to reflect one of the 12 life coaching niches that were mentioned previously and that you will review in this assignment. Over these next two Read More …