Reflection – Mind Mapping

Challenge & Selection    The tool he uses is the mind map to be able not only to innovate but also to give a more efficient and  far-reaching approach to a social project that I developed together with a group of colleagues at the  University, which consists of supporting an orientation vocational training of young people who are  completing their secondary studies and are not clear on what university career to pursue and thus seek  an answer to dropout problems in universities as well as the problem that more than 40% of young  people do not follow a university or technical education, This will allow us to observe what the final  objective of this project will become and elevate it to one of greater scope.    Use the museum gallery technique, with which you fill a room with relevant collected information, as  well as graphs and reports from local newspapers, and divide the team into groups that will give their  specific aspects to the topic, as well as options for improvement, ideas of innovation and a new mission  and vision of the project.    Application    The first thing was to develop the environment, I divided the room into zones in which I showed the  different current problems, as well as related news, areas with statistical graphics, and interviews with  the target audience (young people about to finish or who recently finished high school, higher studies .    To improve the purpose of the improvement, I will rely on terminologies and processes that are shown  within the PMI project methodology, which will allow participating members to have the same language  when giving their opinions and make the final debate more understandable and I practice.    Participants are divided into groups of between 5 to 6 people randomly using "ice-breaker" dynamics,  which ensures a better distribution of opinions and greater confidence among the participants when  grouping them, walk freely around the room, and make notes of their opinions and ideas, nothing is  ruled out any intervention, however insignificant it may seem, will be taken into account and respected  as such.    I give them a total of 40 minutes so that they can discuss what they observe and reinforce their ideas,  then I ask each group to prepare a mental map of what they have seen, based on the following  questions:    a) How do you perceive the student environment?  b) How much do you identify with what you have observed?  c) What is the main problem to solve for you?  d) What are the needs of the target audience in the current context?  e) How can the current problem be improved or solved?    I give them an hour so that they can capture their responses in the way they consider most convenient  or didactic, then I ask each group to present their achievements and results, encouraging debate with  the other groups, generating a consolidation of ideas and creating a “core” idea on which to base the  entire development of the project to be followed, finally by means of photos and summaries, the  consolidated session is obtained, leaving a clear panorama and a group commitment to meet the goals

found through the tool, since all are participants of the dynamics, everyone identifies with the solution  and everyone feels encouraged to make concrete the reality on paper    Insight & Approach    The first thing I rescued when using this exercise is that it creates an environment of camaraderie in  which the barriers that society has established for so many years (race, sex, etc.) are eliminated and  each person is allowed to express their opinion without fear. to censorship and with total respect  towards the rest of the participants, it also allows them to express their ideas more easily, letting their  imagination and inventiveness fly, which I think is the biggest profit of this exercise.    The results of this exercise allowed us to glimpse the current context and the horizon towards which to  go, as well as the generation of an affection towards what will be carried out, in this case the project, as  a reference for this specific case, the Conclusions spanned two important axes, values and an effective  dissemination of the reality of university careers in the country. Young people currently lack a culture  formed by values, such as the vocation of service, perseverance and self-confidence. , values that were  not delivered or nurtured during the development of these young people, and on the other hand, the  little or no diffusion of the university careers in the country generated that the young people had an  erroneous vision of the careers and that led them in case they opted for some to leave it in the middle  of the race and change careers or simply not follow it, which generated a loss of money to the state and  the families of young people, who, having no established values, increased their chances of engaging in  illicit activities, generating a vicious circle that is transmitted from generation to generation.    This tool not only provided a global and specific approach to the problem posed, but also allowed  directing solutions and initiatives to solve them, and left an incredibly diverse data that could be used  for other tools such as storytelling, learning launch and even visualization, and that is why its use  provides the working group with the greatest possible wealth, a working approach that can be revised,  improved and strengthened.

