Meera's #ChangeTheNow Passport

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  Meera Sasikumar Nair posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-21 17:41:12 -0700 complete_your_me_we_reflection_55

  🤔 Reflection question

  After completing CTN, what new awareness do you have for yourself (ME) and your community (WE) and what is one action you might take to continue to explore it?

  Meera's Answer

  I could understand the saying- "Even small footsteps create huge Changes around us". I am able to understand from these that even small REALIZATIONS create big TRANSFORMATIONS and even small INITIATIVES create big INNOVATIONS around us.

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  Meera Sasikumar Nair posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-16 12:03:08 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_pitch_reflection_55

  🤔 Reflection question

  What did you learn about publicly sharing your ideas that you will carry with you in your future of work?

  Meera's Answer

  Our ideas are what we as a team generated through continuous brainstorming and for others to grasp it is really challenging. But, I guess, through presenting our ideas in an interesting way like the Pechakucha would be much impactful. We also expect that we will get the best feedbacks from others through this presentation, which may not be possible through any other means of sharing our ideas.

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  Meera Sasikumar Nair posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-13 08:50:58 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_prototype_test_reflection_55

  🤔 Reflection question

  How might the prototype & test stage help you with overcoming a fear of failure or challenging your assumptions about what is ‘right’?

  Meera's Answer

  As I understood, prototyping is creating a model of what we need to actually create. As a result of that we will forcibly be pushed into an actual scenario and will have to face, analyze and overcome the risks associated with it. This will definitely help us in experiencing how to deal with such situations and become successful. The fear of failure can be treated appropriately as we will be learning everything by actually facing it.

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  Meera Sasikumar Nair posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-08-08 23:39:16 -0700 _complete_your_hcdt_stage_ideate_reflection_55

  🤔 Reflection question

  How might ideation help you develop your active listening skills to brainstorm and reflect on ideas effectively with your team?

  Meera's Answer

  The thinking process was a struggle for us as we had to discuss for a long time to generate ideas earlier. But, after doing the Ideate stage, we found that developing ideas was much easier as the template that we used which is the Fast Idea Generator helped us a lot. While placing a problem in one cell under the normal rule and evaluating the ways in which those can be bend, stretched or broke was very interesting and all the team members were engaging very well as it involved a fun element too. We guess these kind of Idea generators will definitely help a team to think out of the box to find the possible changes that can happen to an existing rule or problem.

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  Meera Sasikumar Nair posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-07-31 08:30:14 -0700 _complete_your_hcdt_stage_define_reflection_55

  🤔 Reflection question

  How might you explain the value of you having a systems-thinking mindset when attempting to define and understand a complex problem?

  Meera's Answer

  I could never think in this way before while considering the problem I was focusing on. While discussing and discovering the causes of the problem that we deal with, we had to take a lot of time to find the relevant points or ideas. But when we used the systems-thinking pathway, things were working out easily than before. We could arrive at relevant points much quicker than before.

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  Meera Sasikumar Nair posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-07-18 13:42:56 -0700 complete_your_hcdt_stage_empathize_reflection_55

  🤔 Reflection question

  After learning about how to empathize with the people affected by your SDG’s social issue, how you might apply empathy to working with the members on your CTN Innovation Team?

  Meera's Answer

  I guess thinking from their point of view is the most important thing to empathize with them. When we are working in team and one of my team member is facing a problem, I should listen to them without interrupting or judging them to understand their actual situation. To think from their shoes is needed to get better understanding of their condition so that I can help them to solve the problem.

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  Meera Sasikumar Nair posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-06-13 07:19:10 -0700 create_your_team_canvas_55

  🤔 Reflection question

  What did you personally learn about the process of creating your team canvass?

  Meera's Answer

  I was able to identify how things work better if we are working in a team than doing things individually because the values, skills, strengths and weaknesses of each individual is different and this diversity creates an advantage in a group. Wherever one lacks, there will be another one to tackle it.

  
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  Meera Sasikumar Nair posted in "Inclusive Design and Mobility Challenge – SDG #11, Spring 2022" 2022-06-12 07:40:24 -0700 complete_your_mobius_strip_reflection_55

  🤔 Reflection question

  After completing the Mobius Strip exercise, what do you feel are next steps towards contributing to the community you care about?

  Meera's Answer

  From my side, I guess I should go more deeper into the issues to find the causes so that I can find out what all small steps I should start with to develop a better tomorrow for the society. The most common issues I found are the homelessness and child mental health issues. Both are relevant in our community these days but to rank I would go with the Child Mental health care to be the one addressed first because they are the future of our community. If we could organize better efforts to develop a healthy minded child, then it would be the best thing we could do for our community.

  
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  Meera Sasikumar Nair customized their profile URL 2022-06-08 12:17:34 -0700