Evolving Minds

Knowledge

For my practicum, I served as an Ambassador for the Resilience Leaders Program. As an Ambassador my main role was to relay my resilience training of the 4 skills to my various communities through discussions and activates to improve the mental health of various communities . These skills include Joy, gratitude, goodness, mindful pause. I also participated in multiple social media campaigns. For the #MayWeBeKind May campaign, my partner and I created a video presentation of what people could do to be kind to themselves for the second day of our week long camping. My other roles included taking meeting notes during our weekly Wednesday meetings and creating podcast titles and discriiptions for the Evolving Minds podcast.

Evidence

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Evolving Minds Practicum Poster

This poster details my experience through my ambassadorship with Evolving Minds, a mental Health organization

Evolving Minds has helped me understand the importance of mental health and the simple and feasible skills we can incorporate into our lives to prevent mental health symptoms and illness in the future.

Evolving Minds Reflection

For our Evolving Minds reflection activity, we were asked to draw a window with four panes. Each pane represented one of our four evidenced-based resilience skills. For the Joy pane, we were asked to describe events and people that have made us joyous this year. For our Gratitude pane, we were to describe what we were grateful for. For our Goodness pane, we were to describe what we think is good about ourselves or what positive attributes people see in us. For our Openness pane, we were to describe what we hope for in our future. I believe I have grown as a public health leader and student with the leadership role I was offered with Evovlign Minds as an ambassador. I learned how to gauge my audience and tailor the way I teach the skills. I have grown as a student through the four evidence-basesed skills I have learned what to do in moments of anxiety, anger, or other emotions. Also throughout my adminisatrative roles, I have learned how to be more concise and effective in my writing.

Application:

When stay-at-home orders and COVID restrictions became more prevalent I foresaw the mental health toll it would have on all individuals and groups both directly and indirectly. I decided to apply for the ambassador's position not only to learn skills to maintain my own mental health during the difficult state of the world but also to play a part in providing a solution to my own communities and beyond. During the ending of my spring semester, when COVID started I did a public speaking presentation about the possible mental toll on nurses and other groups. Looking at the research and Health and data projections I felt powerless, I knew that it was a public health issue but I had no resources to address it, but I knew as an ambassador I would be able to elevate some of the burdens of the issue through the four evidence-based resilience skills.

With my training, I hope to build up a habit of using these skills to prevent symptoms of anxiety, anger, and other emotions. I also hope to build up my credibility and the technique in which I disseminate the skills. Though I do not have a degree in Public Health Science yet, I want to use the lessons and skills I've learned both in the Global Public Health Scholars program and Evolving Minds program to be a Public Health advocate and inspire others to get involved in advocating for a more effective, community-based, and efficient health system and future local interventions.

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