Challenge & selection    5 years ago the government implemented a national nutritional program named Qali  Warma with the mission to provide rich and nutritious food to children of primary  schools in the country, and secondary schools in the native communities of the  Peruvian Amazon, in order to improve their attention in classes, attendance and  permanence.    Now, after the presidential transition and changing the board of directors of Qali  Warma, they are evaluating and redesigning the program to give the children a better  service and nutritious meals. The team in charge of finding critical problems and  delivered practical solutions, decided to work by region and taking examples from  some schools that actually implemented the project with low results.      Evaluating the amount of information I would get from stakeholders and considered  the selection and typification of the most important ideas, mind mapping was chosen  as the most efficient method for organizing all information and deliver concrete and  understandable ideas to the manager’s program.    Application    Before we finished the diagnosis stage (collecting all the information give it by the  stakeholders, using different tools) I convocate my critical group of interest and the  key teams that sustain the program: parents and teachers, to a workshop in order to  share the result of diagnosis and create a mind mapping with the information I gave  them plus the information they had from their own experience.     I considered using single keywords in order to help the parents and teachers to focus  on one single idea per step and simplify topics into smaller parts. Also, asked them to  express legible and clear words in order to make easier for all the participant to read  them. Different colors and shapes were used to represent ideas (they separated  main ideas from secondary and ideas that, after finished the process, were  discharged ). The secondary ideas were related by drawing links and based on that  they create main concepts, generating common understanding about the issues  founded in the program. They worked in groups of four to five members. Finally, they  were asked to shared their results and discuss about the main ideas from each mind  map.     The people involved knew that the workshop and the results from it were part of a  process to co-create possible and innovative solutions, using abstract ideas, and  some of them will be tested at the schools.     Insight and approach  For me was important to generate fluid communication spaces between the  participants and that they don't lose focus on the target of the program and one  phrase that I used in every workshop: our children receive nutritious food according  the local costumes.     I have to used this resource because I realized that when they started in blank it  takes too long to start with the activity (my teams have not been in a workshop  before and they didn't know how to mind mapping). With the statement I gave them,  they worked their ideas and started to link actions in their memories and previous  experience. The teams started with one main concept and generated branches of  thoughts that were used as a base for other multiplied ideas.

Some of the results:

•  Scheduling breakfasts and lunches helps to balance the vitamins and  nutrients the children need according their age.

•  Empowerment of parents on the types of combinations, food groups and  proportions to ensure a nutritious and quality food.

