REPORT ACTIVITY NO 3

Date: 19 June 2021

Venue: Online Platform (Cisco Webex)

Organizer: Psychology Interactive Club (PSYCHIC), Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

1. Leadership and Teamworking Skills
2. Communication Skills

I was assigned as committee member in the Psychology School Attack 2021: “Break The Stigma” program. My role is to help the Chief of Activity in making sure that the program is running smooth and handling the registration for the participants in the program.

The “Break the Stigma” program was held on 19 June 2021 and the program started on 2.30 pm until 4.00 pm. The program was held on Cisco Webex platform. The aim of the program was to create break the false stigma of the society about psychology. The reason why I joined the program is because I think that the content and the aim of the program is very useful to the society nowadays as the pseudo psychology becoming more prevalent including among the youngsters and elders. In my opinion, many more communities out there are unaware about what is the nature of psychology and the use of psychology in our everyday life. Therefore, I joined the program to help the community to break their false stigma about psychology.

Through the program, the graduate attribute that I gained is communication skills. Every program regardless of what type the program is, communication is crucial between the committee members in order to ensure that the program runs smoothly and the objective can be achieved. As the committee member of the program, I need to help the chief of the activity committee in handling the progress and the activities held in the program. Thus, there were a lot of communication required in order to make sure that the flow of the program is smooth without any problems. The program really made me realize the importance of communication in order to achieve the goals. The other graduate attribute that I gained related with this program is leadership and teamworking skills. The program taught me the importance of teamworking as I realized that teamworking is very crucial to cooperate with each other in handling the program and tackle the problems that occur before, during and after the program.

The session in the program was explanation about breaking the stigma about psychology from psychological perspective by Mr Mohd Akif Farhan Ahmad Basri, Clinical Psychologist and Muhammad Huzaifah Adam, Psychology Student which explained about breaking the stigma from student perspective. The program really delivered beneficial knowledge to the community how to break the false stigma of psyhology. At the end of the program, there were activity which was Kahoot games and prizes were provided for the winner.

Graduate attributes that I gained from this program which are the communication skills and teamworking skills really helped me in many ways. Communication skills is really important which is important in order to achieve goals in life, make me realize that if we can communicate well with others, it facilitates us in delivering information or receiving the information from others Also, leadership and teamworking skills is crucial in order to achieve our objective in the things we do. As for me, I believed that teamworking between the committee members really helped in making sure that the program runs smoothly.

In addition, there are a lot of information and experienced that I gained from the “Break the Stigma” program. Mr Mohd Akif Farhan Ahmad Basri who is a clinical psychologist really helped me in increasing my knowledge about psychology and helped me in changing my perspective toward psychology. His high knowledge and experience about psychology also made me wants to seek more knowledge about psychology. It made me thinks that there are still lot of interesting things that I have not discover about psychology even me myself is a psychology student.

Also, before and during the program, there are a lot of challenges that I faced. One of the challenges that I faced is communication. I as a second year of psychology student, I do not have many friends and not know the other students really well as I have seen them only in first year. Online learning due to Covid-19 really limit my social connection with others. So, it is hard for me to communicate with the committee members for the first time. But, thanks to the encouragement from the other committee members, I was able to communicate well with them. The other challenges is the bad internet connection. It was really hard to catch up with the flow of the program as my internet connection was really slow during the program. Despite the challenges that I faced, the program is really fun to join and helped me in many ways.

There are the certificate and the picture during the meeting with the committee members for the “Psychology School Attack: Break the Stigma” program.