Challenge: The challenge faced by my group in college was the depression rates going higher on our  campus and students taking their lives and other serious issues that we had to deal with. Many different  organizations and clubs were built in my college just to deal with this issue but pretty much all of them  either failed or weren't able to make the required impact. Moreover, some had the opposite effect. It  was a daunting task to try to find a solution to this problem that worked and with so many failed  examples all we did know was what we're not supposed to do.

Selection: We realized stories are an integral part of living beings, stories are what unites us as humans  and that was exactly what a depressed or rather lonely person needed at that time to be felt a part, a  part of this race a part of this community that we call humans. So we decided to take storytelling to  these people.

Application: We started by publishing a corner in our weekly magazines and called it the imperfectMe.  In this corner, we published how we messed up and made mistakes how stupid we've been how lonely  we've been and how everybody makes mistakes and it's natural. We added an anonymous corner for  those who did not want to tell their names and we didn't expect this would turn out to be a movement  we started getting naked truths and sad realities from anonymous people and later on also how these  stories help them understand they are not alone.

Insight: This is the biggest learning I as an individual took from the movement. We as humans want to  feel a part and just know that we are not alone we are normal like everybody else. Every one of us has  scars and we unite by stories. Storytelling is the most powerful tool out there. It has kept the human  race alive for so many years. The moment we learned how to draw on caves, we told our stories on  those cave walls. Storytelling for design thinking is a tool that I'm positive is more powerful than any  other tool for me cause in my case this tool helped me save lives and redefine many.

Approach: The next time I get to use storytelling I will expand its horizon and use it to unite people  storytelling can be used as a great tool for organizations in creating meaningful and close communities.  Once the vision is clear in any organization, storytelling can be used to unite people that align with your  cause and bring strong and fundamental value to any organization.

