[nabs-l] Helping the group in organized chaos situations

[Darian]

I Julie,
This is a very good question.
I have dealt with similar situations and I've started by doing what you have done in talking with a supervisor, subordinate, instructor or what have you. 
Quite a bit of times for whatever reason, it doesn't seem to work out quite like I would want it to.
So I have tried the method of either making a friend or finding a friend and partnering up with them ahead of time.
This works when you can do it because the person that you are working with has helped completing the task, you're not left alone, and the job gets done 
Obviously you would do well to lift only what is appropriate free you (don't over exert yourself). And work collaboratively with your partner.  You are just as vital as anyone else in this effort because you can do the power and your partner can be the eyes.
I hope that this helps.
  Darian


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> On Dec 5, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Julie McGinnity <kaybaycar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello friends,
> 
> I know...  Weird subject line...  But in my opera workshop class, we
> are expected to help clean, organize costumes and set pieces, and do
> other physical type tasks.  I am no good at these things, not because
> I don't want to help or can't lift, clean, or help in other ways, but
> because I cannot see what needs doing in an organized chaos type
> situation.  I hate being left out of things, especially when I know I
> can help just as much as everyone else.  My professor doesn't get
> it...  She doesn't think it's safe for me to lift things and doesn't
> mind me sitting by while others do all the work.  But I feel aweful
> and find myself dreading work days and clean-up times.  I want to
> help, but I don't know how to throw myself in.  Most of all, I don't
> want to try to help with something, just to be told that I'm not
> welcome. I have tried to talk with my professor about these things,
> and she wants to give me jobs like helping call cues, but most of what
> we do is actually physical work, and I'd still be left out of all of
> it. I feel like if I can navigate uneven and high platforms on a stage
> without falling to my death, I can handle a little heavy lifting and
> cleaning.  But I don't know how to convince others, especially when
> they believe it would simply be easier for them to do the work.
> 
> Have any of you dealt with a similar situation?  How have you handled it?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Julie McG
> National Association of Guide dog Users board member,  National
> Federation of the Blind performing arts division secretary,
> Missouri Association of Guide dog Users President,
> and Guiding Eyes for the Blind graduate 2008
> "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that
> everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal
> life."
> John 3:16
> 
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