Reﬂection - Storytelling

Challenge & Selection

The ﬁrst tool I used was the tool of storytelling or story telling, to achieve or shared  understanding of a problem space among a diverse group of stakeholders before  attempting to identify and deﬁne possible solutions to the problem. I use this  approach often with vulnerable populations, senior citizens and economically  disadvantage people and in order to create awareness to people who are not  enlightened with the changes that are happening around us and to our mother  earth. Sometimes when I share my story and engage myself with someone who is  younger than me, the sense of stupid questions that they ask tend to provoke a  thought in my mind to think it in the most basic form about the complex problems  that exists and then to seniors in order understand with there experience how the  evolution has happened and how they have gone about to see the changes that  have occurred in our nature. I use these informations to increase my knowledge  and understandings about these things.

Application

I was once on a beach in Goa and I was fed up with the dirt and littering around  the beach. It was just not limited to the beach but also to the water that was  touching that beach. Everything was getting washed up in that beach and there  were no proper means for waste collection and segregation. It was a clear  indicator of peoples negligence and ignorance of the people. The lack of facilities  of waste disposables have led to this situation. The wastes generated also  included the ones that occurred due to the communal gatherings and festivals.  Challenges that will be faced in such a situations if done properly would protect  the marine life, the detriment to health caused by the unhygienic surroundings. It  would curb the increase in the water temperature which in turn triggers climate  change, to enhance the lives of the ﬁshermen’s. To provide safety and personal  well being. These thoughts were just playing in my mind while I was sitting there  and a senior citizen was intrigued by what I was trying to observe and do and  these thoughts I spoke to him a loud and he got really touched as this was the  beach he had proposed his late wife 35 years back. It had a milestone in his love  and held a special place in his heart.

Insight & Approach

Well, as I progressed and started to know how much this meant to him and why it  touched his heart, he opened with me and started to explain how before back in  the time when so many materialistic things existed the beach would be so clean  and pure, he told me that when had planned on proposing to his wife, the beach  was untouched with human beings and there was only one shack that was there  and there was a proper system to visit the beach or to do anything. There was a  proper system through which you had to go through in order to visit or do an event  on the beach.

I got really touched with his emotions related to the beach and that’s when I  started to think with about how we might just start something of cleaning thr beach  and get sponsors to aﬃliate with us and bring this initiative in everyones notice. He  then went on to tell me about his grandchildren should grow up in an environment  that is safe for them and he would love to restore it to its basic form how it used to  be and recite the story of how he met and proposed there grandmother sitting  there on the beach drinking coconut water with them.

This course made me see this as a tool in a new way. Presenting my ideas and  thoughts more freely and in a proper way with empathising with the person getting  aﬀected.


Reﬂection - Storytelling Challenge & Selection The ﬁrst tool I used was the tool of storytelling or story telling , to achieve or shared understanding of a problem space among a diverse group of stakeholders before attempting to identify and deﬁne possible solutions to the problem . I use this approach often with vulnerable populations , senior citizens and economically disadvantage people and in order to create awareness to people who are not enlightened with the changes that are happening around us and to our mother earth . Sometimes when I share my story and engage myself with someone who is younger than me , the sense of stupid questions that they ask tend to provoke a thought in my mind to think it in the most basic form about the complex problems that exists and then to seniors in order understand with there experience how the evolution has happened and how they have gone about to see the changes that have occurred in our nature . I use these informations to increase my knowledge and understandings about these things . Application I was once on a beach in Goa and I was fed up with the dirt and littering around the beach . It was just not limited to the beach but also to the water that was touching that beach . Everything was getting washed up in that beach and there were no proper means for waste collection and segregation . It was a clear indicator of peoples negligence and ignorance of the people . The lack of facilities of waste disposables have led to this situation . The wastes generated also included the ones that occurred due to the communal gatherings and festivals . Challenges that will be faced in such a situations if done properly would protect the marine life , the detriment to health caused by the unhygienic surroundings . It would curb the increase in the water temperature which in turn triggers climate change , to enhance the lives of the ﬁshermen ’s . To provide safety and personal well being . These thoughts were just playing in my mind while I was sitting there and a senior citizen was intrigued by what I was trying to observe and do and these thoughts I spoke to him a loud and he got really touched as this was the beach he had proposed his late wife 35 years back . It had a milestone in his love and held a special place in his heart . Insight & Approach Well , as I progressed and started to know how much this meant to him and why it touched his heart , he opened with me and started to explain how before back in the time when so many materialistic things existed the beach would be so clean and pure , he told me that when had planned on proposing to his wife , the beach was untouched with human beings and there was only one shack that was there and there was a proper system to visit the beach or to do anything . There was a proper system through which you had to go through in order to visit or do an event on the beach . I got really touched with his emotions related to the beach and that ’s when I started to think with about how we might just start something of cleaning thr beach and get sponsors to aﬃliate with us and bring this initiative in everyones notice . He then went on to tell me about his grandchildren should grow up in an environment that is safe for them and he would love to restore it to its basic form how it used to be and recite the story of how he met and proposed there grandmother sitting there on the beach drinking coconut water with them . This course made me see this as a tool in a new way . Presenting my ideas and thoughts more freely and in a proper way with empathising with the person getting aﬀected .