Final Assignment

Leonardo Giles

Challenge & Selection

The challenge I chose is to help young people (college and university), who have  difficulty in socializing and have mental health problems; since they do not have  confidence in openly asking for help from their parents, teachers, classmates,  among others. The tool used for this challenge will be the mental mapping tool,  which I found very useful for interacting with this group of people, and getting the  report that they can provide for possible solutions.

Application

The first action that I will take will be to contact several people, who have gone  through the problem in question, have coped with it in a positive way or are still  facing the problem, and are willing to share their experience that will serve as a  reference for young people who are in the similar situation.

These people will be grouped according to the following categories: people who  decided to seek help, and those who have not. Based on the aforementioned  categories, they will be presented on a blackboard with an idea for their category.  The former will contribute ideas based on their experience and what led them to  request help, as well as what kind of help they would have liked to have; while,  for the second group, they will contribute ideas of why they have not wanted to  seek help, there have been reasons of disgust for asking for help, among others.  At the end of the activity I will gather and organize all the ideas contributed to  determine the best factor to help and solve the problem.

Insight & Aproach

What I have learned from carrying out this activity with the selected tool is that  the more people are involved with facing the challenge, the greater perspectives  will be obtained to solve the problems of the vast majority of the people who face  them and not just a minority. similar to my thought process. In addition, we could  involve people who do not have this condition but who have the empathy to help  their peers.

I think that for the next occasion I would support myself with the visualization tool,  since it has a similar objective to that of mind mapping, but with this tool it will be  possible to reach a global vision of the problem and, consequently, its solution.

