2.Based on best practices, how can you apply what you know in you career choice as a Health Promotion Manager?
I believe that you should use best practice as much as you possibly can in your career path. It has been studied the most and has been proven most effective so that is what is going to move yourself and others forward in the best way. However that doesn't mean you should never use emerging or promising practice either. It just means that you should err on the side of caution when using these practices because they haven't been studied as long as best practices have. You should even incorporate your own style and way of doing things to potentially create an emerging practice as well. 

3.What do you want to learn more about, and why?
I am hoping to learn more about the best ways to go about managing and working with a variety of populations but still being able to appeal to the majority. It is important to know about how to deal with a variety of populations because you will work with many throughout your career.

2. What about your thinking, learning, or work this week brought you the most satisfaction? Why?
I enjoyed creating my mindmap and getting to begin the steps of working on my genius hour project. Getting to relate my work into my field of interest gave me the most satisfaction this week.

3. How did you help the class learn this week? If you feel you didn't add to class or feel the need to contribute more consider what can you do next week to help other learners more?
I helped the class learn this week by actively participating in my group by sharing ideas and thoughts. I think I can do a better job of sharing my insights with the whole class however and contribute more to whole class discussion.

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. 
I want my workplace to be full of acceptance and an air that lets ideas flow through freely. I want to be able to influence the youth around me to understand the importance of wellness and how truly rewarding it can be. Everyone has a different idea of wellness so as long as the importance of wellness is being emphasized, that will be the key to keeping everyone on board. 

First:  How can you use the six sources of influence to create your solution to this problem?  Be specific

Second: What information to date has been covered in the Putnam book that can help guide your in group's investigation into your topic?  

Our groups driving question was:

We are definitely able to use the six sources of influence to create a solution to our driving question. We are making the undesirable, desirable. We are figuring out a solution to mental health and burnout, which is a topic that is not often discussed or has an embarrassing stigma attached to it. No one wants to admit they struggle with mental health but by putting it out in the open and by creating solutions that create resiliency in youth will begin to break down the stigma.

Why do I/we want to be an Influencer?” and “Who do I/we want to influence?

Next review reflections from three other students who are on any other team, and these don't have to be all on the same team.  What can you tell them to help this person strengthen their focus on how to influence others? 

I want to be an Influencer because I have had such amazing influencers impact my life in the most positive light. I want to share my insights with other young athletes because that is when I myself found my passion in life. I want to give young athletes, especially young female athletes, the knowledge and discipline they will need in order to succeed. I think it is so important to show female youth in particular that being strong, both mentally and physically, is one of the best attributes you can carry on with you throughout life. Through strength and conditioning I want to influence other youth to become the best athletes and the best humans they can be. I find that youth are the most receptive to knowledge and advice and you really have the chance to be someone extremely influential in their lives.

I want to create meaning in the youth athlete population. Our target population makes up over 8 million youth in America which means there is enough work to be done that would take over a lifetime to accomplish. We are focusing on mental health and creating resiliency because it is something taboo that is often not talked about or thrown shame at. Youth mental health issues affect all youth including youth athletes and there needs to be a shift that encourages the openness of talking about these issues and how to both overcome and prevent them. We have received a lot of great feedback from our classmates that tells me that is is a really important topic that many people in the room have experienced without really a solution. Youth are the future of our world and we need to continue to instill this sense of resiliency not just in athletics but in their every day lives as well. If they burn out young it is going to be harder to keep them on track to a positive journey through wellness.

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?  

Our Genius Hour project is able to use social capital by taking two people interested in similar topics but with two completely different backgrounds, ideas, thoughts, and experiences, and combining them into one to create a more synergetic project. We are creating this project for the greater good despite what we each individually want. We are taking the feedback we are receiving and changing our project to encompass the masses rather than our own personal thoughts and needs. Using the experiential learning theory our population will be able to reflect on their past experiences to prepare them to change in the future with the integration of new ideas and concepts given to them. They will then experiment with their new growth mind set and see if it makes a difference through performance and behavior.