Challenge and Selection

I am a member of health club in my university and my challenge is to improve the workflow in order  to increase the participation of student in our activities and projects to achieve the term "Happy  student".  Many of these people deal with obesity and depression .The scope of the project includes  the participation of our club member.

The project is limited to internal resources (i.e., budget and student time).We will focus on trying to  increase caution to the health problem and encourage to pursuit a healthy lifestyle.

Our team has already gone through several design thinking tools. The first tool we used was the tool  of Visualization, or Visual Thinking to achieve a shared understanding of a problem before  attempting to identify and define possible solutions to the problem.

The second tool we used was the Storytelling, many of these students deal with depression and  dysfunction in every aspect of their lives, they need to be empowered and inspiration is a path to  empowerment. We spend a lot of time “opening people up” and finding ways to inspire them to  improve their life.

I share stories of my life in order to help them visualize a state of independence

Application

I start the process of f Visualization by creating the image of regular student whose depressed, obeys  and lonely to reflact the result of the path that most student take in university in order to do better  marks. I tried to explain that could be anybody that why the image is Back\photo (no face). I just  tried to warn them to the result of the action they make.

I have a story about using storytelling. I was trying to explain to them the benefits of taking a more  time to do healthy stuff , just simple stuff they can increase their performance in daily life,30 minute  of Sport activities in the university gym , eat one healthy meal a day ,share experience with each  other, laugh more , participate in sport event....

I was also explaining how sometimes little activities like these can impact hugely our life even if it  seems extreme or out of the ordinary (eat an apple). I told a story about my feelings and emotional  after a 1 hour run I feel perfection then i fell like i am ready for the world just give me what you want  and I will beat it.

Everyone was doing really well except for one student whose stress was making her very emotionally  volatile. From the first look i notice that she is obese .e. I could tell she needed attention; in my mind

I decided she would be Princess if she lost weight So then i decided to talk with here and share my  experience with obesity , finally i convince her to do 30 minute run daily  in period of month and then  decide for herself to keep up or give up.

Insight & Approach

What I have learned from conducting this exercise is the power of the visual thinking and how is  important for reinforcing their understanding of the problem they are working to solve. I discovered  that the most valuable aspect is the shared story and react with storytelling.

This course made me see this as a tool in a new way. Now I can prepare ahead and think of stories  that will assist me in presenting my ideas and best illuminate them. Next time I would use Learning  Launch to approach the problem in better ways.

