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Fiona Rea came to WIT as a mature student and studies advanced facilitation skills for promoting health and wellbeing. Fiona enjoyed her time studying at WIT as a mature student and made lots of new friends. Fiona is relishing her huge achievement of her graduation day.
How will completing this course effect your work?
I plan on doing more of the same but probably doing a lot more in the line of facilitation.
Why did you choose this course?
It came in a time of my life where I felt I wanted to do something different. I had changed my career in my forties and the course that I did was being done by a friend of mine, and just hearing her speak about it and reading all the blurb I realised how interested I was in doing it.
What changes has this course made to your life?
I suppose the main things are it has made me become a bit more aware of people and how they are and why they are the way they are and it has made me be a little bit more conscious of why I teach how I teach and why I facilitate the way I facilitate, and the importance of facilitating with somebody else and the importance of feedback and evaluation. It has made me really look at what I was doing and improve on it.
Did you enjoy the experience as a mature student?
Go for it. It’s fabulous, it’s the best thing you’ll ever do, we are learning all the time and I think it’s a great achievement, it is for me certainly. It’s always good to add more string to your bow whether you use it or not, but certainly I would say to someone if they were thinking about it, stop thinking about it and just do it.
Interviewed at Conferring 2019 by Killian Fitzgerald
SETU Waterford, Cork Road, Waterford City, 
