Mind Mapping 

 It is very difficult   to find yourself as an imperfect human being in a role of giving hope to 

 other imperfect beings especially those who find themselves in circumstances far beyond their 

 comprehension . I work with with one of the key population who we refer to as prisoners . Where 

 I work , I deal with prisoners from all walks of live , some are fathers , juveniles , foreigners , 

 criminals , some are awaiting trials and some are psychitric patients . It takes more than passion 

 and hard work to listen to this diverse group and try to make them look at life in a different 

 light than their current situations . It is even more difficult when language is a barrier and then 

 you got to call the third person who is not even qualified or trained to interpret . What has 

 always intriqued me is the ability to help someone come up with a better solution without being 

 judgemental or prejudice . 

 Selection 

 I have leant to use mind mapping to get through to my clients who are prisoners(inmates ) and 

 their custodians(prison officers ) whom are at times judgemental to their clients and illtreat 

 them . I have not always known the in depth of mind mapping but the little knowledge I knew 

 was that it makes complex issues easy to breakdown and remember since it uses a lot of 

 drawing which stick to the mind . It further uses partens to search for depth hidden insights 

 which sways one into treating something complex into a simple manner . 

 Application 

 Coming from a background of giving group and individual counselling to students and teachers 

 whom were already used to the idea of counselling was easy however giving the same to prison 

 enviroment seem a bit complex and it was further met with resentment and aparthy . So for me 

 to permeate the idea of counselling I needed to understand what was their idea of counselling 

 in contrast to what I know and for that i used mind mapping . I took both the prison officers and 

 the inmates through what I believe to be counselling at separate times in contrast to what they 

 know counselling to be . I drew a square box with defination of counselling and branches that 

 support counselling and I drew a circle opposite the square and wrote counselling in prison . I 

 then asked the grounp to come up with what their understanding of prison counselling is in 

 contrast to counselling in general and to   link the similarities together . They also came up with 

 what worked and what did nt work at the end of the presentation . The pictorials made the 

 presentation fascinating and simple to engage everyone   and at the end we had a common 

 thinking . 

 Mind mapping in working with the above two groups was helpful since it gathered the current 

 trends and understanding of what counselling is to both groups and it further readressed issues 

 of now that we know what counselling is what is it that could be done to generate common 

 themes that will include all prisoners . It made everyone to think out of the box which is named 

 design criteria in Design thinking processs and it paved way for new interventions which were 

 owned not by myself but by the prison officers and prisoners . 

 Insights and Approach 

 To me the example of art gallery and yard sale reflects on breaking ice by congregating all the 

 stakeholders in couselling together to reflect on what they are experiencing in so far as 

 counselling is concerned . They were honest in defining their current realities of counselling 

 and they clustered them into thems of what is working and what is not working for them . Mind 

 mapping is indeed an innovative way into making people start thinking and opening up about 

 the trends that they are experiencing and it further give insights into easily mapping issues into 

 themes and what does nt fall within the given criteria , yet is valuable in creating what could 

 work as opposse to what was . The mind mapping is colouful , connect ideas and enable people 

 to be imaginative which is the core of Innovative design and thinking . This is a tool we can 

 adopt in learning and understanding . 

 It is with no doubt that mind mapping in design thinking is a tool to reckon with , however 

 having gone through all this module of Design thinking and Innovation , I am rest assured that 

 alone mind mapping is not enough therefore if coupled with story telling and visualization , I 

 will be able to reach the many hearts of the key population I work with in building a better me 

 and better us . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Mind Mapping 

 It is very difficult   to find yourself as an imperfect human being in a role of giving hope to 

 other imperfect beings especially those who find themselves in circumstances far beyond their 

 comprehension . I work with with one of the key population who we refer to as prisoners . Where 

 I work , I deal with prisoners from all walks of live , some are fathers , juveniles , foreigners , 

 criminals , some are awaiting trials and some are psychitric patients . It takes more than passion 

 and hard work to listen to this diverse group and try to make them look at life in a different 

 light than their current situations . It is even more difficult when language is a barrier and then 

 you got to call the third person who is not even qualified or trained to interpret . What has 

 always intriqued me is the ability to help someone come up with a better solution without being 

 judgemental or prejudice . 

 Selection 

 I have leant to use mind mapping to get through to my clients who are prisoners(inmates ) and 

 their custodians(prison officers ) whom are at times judgemental to their clients and illtreat 

 them . I have not always known the in depth of mind mapping but the little knowledge I knew 

 was that it makes complex issues easy to breakdown and remember since it uses a lot of 

 drawing which stick to the mind . It further uses partens to search for depth hidden insights 

 which sways one into treating something complex into a simple manner . 

 Application 

 Coming from a background of giving group and individual counselling to students and teachers 

 whom were already used to the idea of counselling was easy however giving the same to prison 

 enviroment seem a bit complex and it was further met with resentment and aparthy . So for me 

 to permeate the idea of counselling I needed to understand what was their idea of counselling 

 in contrast to what I know and for that i used mind mapping . I took both the prison officers and 

 the inmates through what I believe to be counselling at separate times in contrast to what they 

 know counselling to be . I drew a square box with defination of counselling and branches that 

 support counselling and I drew a circle opposite the square and wrote counselling in prison . I 

 then asked the grounp to come up with what their understanding of prison counselling is in 

 contrast to counselling in general and to   link the similarities together . They also came up with 

 what worked and what did nt work at the end of the presentation . The pictorials made the 

 presentation fascinating and simple to engage everyone   and at the end we had a common 

 thinking . 

 Mind mapping in working with the above two groups was helpful since it gathered the current 

 trends and understanding of what counselling is to both groups and it further readressed issues 

 of now that we know what counselling is what is it that could be done to generate common 

 themes that will include all prisoners . It made everyone to think out of the box which is named 

 design criteria in Design thinking processs and it paved way for new interventions which were 

 owned not by myself but by the prison officers and prisoners . 

 Insights and Approach 

 To me the example of art gallery and yard sale reflects on breaking ice by congregating all the 

 stakeholders in couselling together to reflect on what they are experiencing in so far as 

 counselling is concerned . They were honest in defining their current realities of counselling 

 and they clustered them into thems of what is working and what is not working for them . Mind 

 mapping is indeed an innovative way into making people start thinking and opening up about 

 the trends that they are experiencing and it further give insights into easily mapping issues into 

 themes and what does nt fall within the given criteria , yet is valuable in creating what could 

 work as opposse to what was . The mind mapping is colouful , connect ideas and enable people 

 to be imaginative which is the core of Innovative design and thinking . This is a tool we can 

 adopt in learning and understanding . 

 It is with no doubt that mind mapping in design thinking is a tool to reckon with , however 

 having gone through all this module of Design thinking and Innovation , I am rest assured that 

 alone mind mapping is not enough therefore if coupled with story telling and visualization , I 

 will be able to reach the many hearts of the key population I work with in building a better me 

 and better us .
### Output: 