Mind Mapping 

 Challenge : 

 My faith community has undergone serious changes and growth in the last 5 years : new leadership ,   many new members , and even a new location for worship ( after temporarily occupying other spaces   while our new church home was being constructed ) . One constant throughout these dynamic years has   been music , and more specifically , the way music brings people within our community together . As a   member of my congregation ’s music ministry , my role is to plan and share musical offerings during   worship services . The consistency of our ministry ( familiar hymns , predictable players , etc . ) has been   helpful during recent times of transition . However , now that we are settled into our new church home ,   we ’re looking to improve upon our greatest hits . Specifically , we ’re looking to answer the following   question : How can we make our music ministry more inclusive ? Our congregation and the community in   which it sits look different every day . How do we expand or revamp the way we use music in worship to   be more inclusive of new people , new ideas , and new traditions ? 

 Selection : 

 As a congregational church , we value a democratic approach to decision - making . We wanted to leverage   input from members across the congregation to design our new vision for music . After employing   several strategies to collect data from congregants ( interviews about their worship experiences , journals   and collages to capture their relationship with music beyond the church walls , surveys to learn their   hopes for the music ministry ) , I designed a mind mapping session to glean some insight from all the   information . I was compelled to use this particular tool after brainstorming sessions with church   leadership earlier in the process revealed their very strong opinions about the future direction for the   music ministry . I remembered learning about the dangers of “ hippos ” ( “ highest paid person ’s opinions ” )   in the design thinking process , and knew that our solutions would never address both the stated and   unstated needs of the congregation without a more unbiased approach . Mind - mapping became a way   to bring fresh eyes and voices to the conversation from people both within and beyond the church   community . 

 Application / Insight : 

 For our mind mapping session , we used the “ yard sale ” approach Lindsay Carr described in our course   video . Our “ data ” was randomly displayed in a big , open room . Participants first independently reflected   on the display and then collaboratively clustered data into themes and identifying outliers . We guided   teams in turning these themes into insight statements by asking “ so what ” about each of the themes   discovered . This was the most powerful experience of the session as it revealed criteria to include in our   solution that were not yet on our radar . For example , earlier brainstorming sessions with church   leadership produced possible solutions that only looked at music ’s role within the hour - long worship   service each Sunday . The insight statement from our mind mapping exercise revealed that congregants   most valued music that could intersect with multiple areas of their lives . From this , we established a   new criteria for solutions to incorporate “ musical offerings ” that would somehow extend into the week   or extend across Sunday services . 

 An unexpected consequence of the mind mapping was that it revealed an alternative definition for   music that no one in the original planning team had expected . Within one congregant ’s music journal , 

 he noted his experiences with both audible music and silence . For him , silence was part of music as it   was an absence of music . He described his musical experiences as being most profound when   juxtaposed with opportunities for silence . Had we not encouraged participants in the mind mapping   exercise to take note of outliers , we may have missed this important idea . Within our solution criteria ,   we made sure to expand the role of the music ministry to include planning for both audible music and   silence within worship and beyond . 

 Approach : 

 Overall , I was very pleased with the mind mapping session . It captured many more voices and ideas than   might have been heard at an all - church meeting ( our typical forum for collaboration ) . Listening to   discussions during the session did make me think critically about the strategies we used to capture our   initial data from the congregation . The music journals and other artistic expressions of people ’s   relationships to music were among the most successful . Since members of the music ministry were the   ones who conducted the one - on - one interviews with congregants , I question how honest folks were   about their positive and negative experiences with the music we shared each Sunday . In the future , I   would use a more neutral party to interview the community . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
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### 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 

 Challenge : 

 My faith community has undergone serious changes and growth in the last 5 years : new leadership ,   many new members , and even a new location for worship ( after temporarily occupying other spaces   while our new church home was being constructed ) . One constant throughout these dynamic years has   been music , and more specifically , the way music brings people within our community together . As a   member of my congregation ’s music ministry , my role is to plan and share musical offerings during   worship services . The consistency of our ministry ( familiar hymns , predictable players , etc . ) has been   helpful during recent times of transition . However , now that we are settled into our new church home ,   we ’re looking to improve upon our greatest hits . Specifically , we ’re looking to answer the following   question : How can we make our music ministry more inclusive ? Our congregation and the community in   which it sits look different every day . How do we expand or revamp the way we use music in worship to   be more inclusive of new people , new ideas , and new traditions ? 

 Selection : 

 As a congregational church , we value a democratic approach to decision - making . We wanted to leverage   input from members across the congregation to design our new vision for music . After employing   several strategies to collect data from congregants ( interviews about their worship experiences , journals   and collages to capture their relationship with music beyond the church walls , surveys to learn their   hopes for the music ministry ) , I designed a mind mapping session to glean some insight from all the   information . I was compelled to use this particular tool after brainstorming sessions with church   leadership earlier in the process revealed their very strong opinions about the future direction for the   music ministry . I remembered learning about the dangers of “ hippos ” ( “ highest paid person ’s opinions ” )   in the design thinking process , and knew that our solutions would never address both the stated and   unstated needs of the congregation without a more unbiased approach . Mind - mapping became a way   to bring fresh eyes and voices to the conversation from people both within and beyond the church   community . 

 Application / Insight : 

 For our mind mapping session , we used the “ yard sale ” approach Lindsay Carr described in our course   video . Our “ data ” was randomly displayed in a big , open room . Participants first independently reflected   on the display and then collaboratively clustered data into themes and identifying outliers . We guided   teams in turning these themes into insight statements by asking “ so what ” about each of the themes   discovered . This was the most powerful experience of the session as it revealed criteria to include in our   solution that were not yet on our radar . For example , earlier brainstorming sessions with church   leadership produced possible solutions that only looked at music ’s role within the hour - long worship   service each Sunday . The insight statement from our mind mapping exercise revealed that congregants   most valued music that could intersect with multiple areas of their lives . From this , we established a   new criteria for solutions to incorporate “ musical offerings ” that would somehow extend into the week   or extend across Sunday services . 

 An unexpected consequence of the mind mapping was that it revealed an alternative definition for   music that no one in the original planning team had expected . Within one congregant ’s music journal , 

 he noted his experiences with both audible music and silence . For him , silence was part of music as it   was an absence of music . He described his musical experiences as being most profound when   juxtaposed with opportunities for silence . Had we not encouraged participants in the mind mapping   exercise to take note of outliers , we may have missed this important idea . Within our solution criteria ,   we made sure to expand the role of the music ministry to include planning for both audible music and   silence within worship and beyond . 

 Approach : 

 Overall , I was very pleased with the mind mapping session . It captured many more voices and ideas than   might have been heard at an all - church meeting ( our typical forum for collaboration ) . Listening to   discussions during the session did make me think critically about the strategies we used to capture our   initial data from the congregation . The music journals and other artistic expressions of people ’s   relationships to music were among the most successful . Since members of the music ministry were the   ones who conducted the one - on - one interviews with congregants , I question how honest folks were   about their positive and negative experiences with the music we shared each Sunday . In the future , I   would use a more neutral party to interview the community .
### Output: 