STORYTELLING

Challenge & Selection

I used the storytelling tool because in a way I can connect with people and  their lives, allowing me to interact better, feeling more comfortable.  As a  student, I was working on a project about the earthquake that happened  here in Mexico, in 2010, where a lot of people were damaged in many ways,  some of them were psychologically or physically affected. This project  consisted on how people that suffered on the earthquake, were enduring  their life , and how we were capable to help them.

Application

In fact, the best method for this project was “storytelling”. The teacher asked  me to put myself in their positions to understand this assignment better, but  unfortunately, I had a very bad experience that day; I was in the school´s  backyard due to I needed to bring some documents for my scholarship that I  wanted to have, suddenly the earthquake started. Obviously, I freaked out,  but I needed to keep calm in this situation, I didn’t want to cause more panic,  out of nowhere, a girl next to me started panicking even more! She burst into  tears, I tried to calm her down, she kept telling me that her family was in  danger, she thought they were going to die. I told this girl that her family was  okay, she didn’t have to worry about anything, as I tried to calm her down,  my phone rang, it was my mom, but I didn’t answer it. I used it to make a  phone call but my phone´s battery die. I told the girl that I was going to walk  her to her house, because she was still frightened, so we headed to this girl´s  house. When she saw that her family was okay, she thanked me, and from  that moment, we became best friend.

Insight & Approach

Thanks to this tool, I learned that its good to help and be around people that  needed it, finally I was able to get a 10 on my final project. If someone asked  why did I use storytelling it’s because storytelling is about connecting with  people and their stories, understand people from the bottoms of their  hearts, also making my head clearer about this topics. If I have another  project, I will use the visualization tool because I like the idea of drawing or  brainstorming on paper.

