Reflection-Storytelling

Challenges & Selection    I define myself as a continuous storyteller; I use this method in every moment in my life and I

didn’t even know it. This course helped me to find out that. I work a lot with kids as an

environmental teacher for kids of places of scarce resources; where my main mission is to

teach them about how to have an ecological life respecting the nature at the same time they

get involved with their communities using what they have learned during the classes.  I spend a lot of time trying to reach to these kids minds, trying to found out ways to make

them feel appreciated and to make them feel like their opinions and their actions really have

a meaning for their communities and the world.  The main tool that I’ve seen that works is the storytelling; this tool is wonderful to reach kids

minds; they love to listen about a goods story and also to tell some stories. In this process

we include their parents; because they are an essential in the process of continuing this

stories on their houses so the kids could really have a feeling about them.    Application     I was working with a small group of 12 kids and 3 more volunteers that were helping me with

the main objective of the classes. That weekly task was to talk about the four elements in

nature and how they can be used to preserve life and the balance in nature or how they can

be used in the destruction of everything; elements like: fire, earth, wind and water.  So we as volunteers were talking about how to make this theme reachable to this kids in

other they could understand the idea and also they could feel related and involved with it.  We reach to the conclusion to use the ​storytelling ​tool; we told them a story about ancient

guardians; that they used to take care of the four element (Water, earth, wind and fire -kind

of the avatar story) this guardians were getting weak every day and they need new recruits

to continue with their task, and it was their mission to be them. We implement a system

where they were classified by ages in order they couldn’t get injured: The older kids (kids

around 16-17 years old) get the task of being the guardians of the fire, the rest of the kids

were mixed with the rest in order to being the guardians of the earth, wind and water.  This was one of our best dynamics with that group; we really reached this kids and their

parents told us the next week that their kids were really focused in their task and they

wanted to learn more about the theme.    Insight & Approach    As I've already tell; this was one of the best dynamics we implement with the kids; the

parents start asking us about they dynamics and how they can get involved in the process

with their sons. One of the parents asked me about the process of how to make his son

focused in something and how to make him interested on one theme; I explain him that he

needed to create an idea where the kid could feel part of it and that he could feel that his

effort really is appreciated and it works for something bigger (in the case; the protection of

nature and his paper as a guardian).

I’d no idea that was a design thinking process, and this course helped me to understand the

power of this topic and the way that it could be used to help the perception of the people

about one theme in specific.


Reflection - Storytelling Challenges & Selection I define myself as a continuous storyteller ; I use this method in every moment in my life and I did n’t even know it . This course helped me to find out that . I work a lot with kids as an environmental teacher for kids of places of scarce resources ; where my main mission is to teach them about how to have an ecological life respecting the nature at the same time they get involved with their communities using what they have learned during the classes . I spend a lot of time trying to reach to these kids minds , trying to found out ways to make them feel appreciated and to make them feel like their opinions and their actions really have a meaning for their communities and the world . The main tool that I ’ve seen that works is the storytelling ; this tool is wonderful to reach kids minds ; they love to listen about a goods story and also to tell some stories . In this process we include their parents ; because they are an essential in the process of continuing this stories on their houses so the kids could really have a feeling about them . Application I was working with a small group of 12 kids and 3 more volunteers that were helping me with the main objective of the classes . That weekly task was to talk about the four elements in nature and how they can be used to preserve life and the balance in nature or how they can be used in the destruction of everything ; elements like : fire , earth , wind and water . So we as volunteers were talking about how to make this theme reachable to this kids in other they could understand the idea and also they could feel related and involved with it . We reach to the conclusion to use the ​storytelling ​tool ; we told them a story about ancient guardians ; that they used to take care of the four element ( Water , earth , wind and fire -kind of the avatar story ) this guardians were getting weak every day and they need new recruits to continue with their task , and it was their mission to be them . We implement a system where they were classified by ages in order they could n’t get injured : The older kids ( kids around 16 - 17 years old ) get the task of being the guardians of the fire , the rest of the kids were mixed with the rest in order to being the guardians of the earth , wind and water . This was one of our best dynamics with that group ; we really reached this kids and their parents told us the next week that their kids were really focused in their task and they wanted to learn more about the theme . Insight & Approach As I 've already tell ; this was one of the best dynamics we implement with the kids ; the parents start asking us about they dynamics and how they can get involved in the process with their sons . One of the parents asked me about the process of how to make his son focused in something and how to make him interested on one theme ; I explain him that he needed to create an idea where the kid could feel part of it and that he could feel that his effort really is appreciated and it works for something bigger ( in the case ; the protection of nature and his paper as a guardian ) . I ’d no idea that was a design thinking process , and this course helped me to understand the power of this topic and the way that it could be used to help the perception of the people about one theme in specific .