1. How can you interpret the information presented so far in the Influencer book to reflect on this statement?  What principles help you agree or disagree with the statement? 
This week the teaching group talked about goals and the 3 keys of influence. When I read the statement, the first thing I thought of was setting goals. The 3 keys that were discussed are what takes your goal to the next level. Making a SMART goal is very important and in order to have it work successfully, it has to have focus and measure, find vital behaviors, as well as engage in all 6 sources of influence. (Most of them, anyways)

2.  What is your vision of wellness using the principals promoted in Workplace Wellness that Works book?  Use Putnam's to imagine what is possible to create an innovative wellness program.
My wellness movement is to encourage young adults and children to live healthy lifestyles that support their mental health as well as their whole wellbeing. In order to make an innovated program the parent and teachers have to be on board with creating change because that who the children and adolescents spend most of their time with.

Why do I/we want to be an Influencer?” and “Who do I/we want to influence?
I want to be an influencer because I want to start a movement for children that actually works. This means taking a look at the parents and figuring out how I can help the children by going through the parents, even teachers or day-care workers as well. Mostly, the people who are around the children the most. I want to influence them because they have the most influence on the children. 

A way that my Genius Hour project used social capital is in the way it provides assistance to the teachers. Our goal is to be able to reach and communicate with the teachers of elementary aged children and share information with them about how to positively impact the nutrition on the children they work with. We are providing many different types of services and assistance to them. 
Putnam Chapter 3:9 covers experiential learning and concepts involved in that model.  How can you help those you want to change behaviors use the experiential learning theory and develop the growth mind set?
The people of whom we really want to see the behavior change from is the parents, or main caretakers of the children. One way to reach the parents and children is through the teachers. Some of the best ways to create this behavior change is to have a program that contains practice, feedback, evaluation, and application. This will help not only us but also the people we trying to reach. We need to get teachers out of the fixed mindset they can only do what the school provides them with. We really want to equip teachers with the knowledge to think outside the box and be innovators within their classrooms and find new ways to teach healthy nutrition and healthy eating habits to the children.

2.  Find Vital Behaviors - reflect and select the one or two vital behaviors that are really driving the problem you are addressing.  What are the MOST IMPORTANT one(s) to address? 
Two vital behaviors would first be the environment, meaning if the classroom endorses negative eating habits the child could carry that on until adulthood and the second is the teachers overall education on healthy eating. 

3. Engage all Six Sources of Influence - reflect on the six sources of influence and think about your strategy and methods.  How would you plan to diffuse these into your project so you actually make a difference?
Structure Ability: A shift in the structures environment would need to happen, it has to become a norm within the school to create change.
Structural Motivation: School have the opportunity to post signs and posters on the walls to motivate the students to adapt. healthy habits.
Social Ability: It everyone around the child changes, the child will see that they want to belong to a group of healthy decision makers too.
Social Motivation: If the children are seeing other students, teachers, and other school staff eating healthy they will be motivated to create those healthy habits.
Personal Ability: I believe as the teachers talk more about how the children can learn to make healthier choices the children will actually see that it is possible. If the child knows they have a little power over the decisions they can choose better options.
Personal Motivation: If teachers use healthy rewards such as an extra recess or extra stretch breaks the children will become more motivated to work towards that goal.