Reflection – Man Man Kwok   Challenge and selection 

 I have once ran a workshop to help a church organization to understand the way Jesus taught about how   He means about His real family , the values he treasured and preached , and how He organized His disciples   to form the very first Christian Church . All the 8 participants were Christians , and they sought for a deeper   understanding on the teaching of Jesus and connect to their daily lives experiences . They were from   different backgrounds , including secondary school teacher , scientist at laboratory , clerical workers ,   freelancers , student and a blind man .       Since concepts of family relationships , values and organizations are abstract ideas , I chose “ visual thinking ”   to gather the thoughts and insights of the participants , and make sure they are on the same page . 

 Application     I make use of “ post - it ” note ( sticky note ) to gather the thoughts of the participants . I asked them to write   ( or draw ) on each note one “ character ” in a family ( i.e. “ father ” , “ son ” , “ grandparent ” , etc ) in a general   perspective . The ideas were first clustered and then I ask them to organize the “ characters ” into a chart of   family tree on white board . It revealed that , in general perspective , Chinese people have an extended   family concept and think that there are at least three level of hierarchy in family ( grandparents , parents and   kids ) . They also pointed out that the center of a family belongs to the parents , and the Father is always the 

 central commander who possesses most of the authority . So , we drew a set of concentric circle in which   parents is the center . 

 After that , the participants were asked to look into the Bible and pick from Jesus ’ saying about His family   members . Using the same method , the participants also listed the family members Jesus mentioned on 

 post - it note one by one , and then the notes were re - organized into “ Jesus ’ family tree ” . When compared   the two family charts , we found that Jesus ’ ideal family relationship has a flatter hierarchy than our   common customs that consist of only two generations , and in the parent level the membership of “ father ”   has been absented . There is also a difference that Jesus emphasized Children should be at the central focal   and their interests should be served first . 

 The family trees and the organizational concentric circles helped us in the further discussion of how Jesus   innovated a more fairer structure in family than the patriarchic system in the history and nowadays , and   how this imply on the relationship between the peer ( the brother - sister - hood ) . We also discussed that the   absent of a “ father ’s role ” in Jesus ’ ideal family is pointing to His teaching that there is only One Father in   Heaven , the God . These teaching on relationship between family members and between people and God   were used by Jesus as metaphor to build His very first Church organization . 

 Insights and Approach     The visual tools help us re - organize the Bible says scattered in different Gospels and articulate a clear 

 Parents 

 Kids 

 relatives ( such   as   grandparents ,   uncles and   aunts ) 

 Children 

 Mother ,   sisters ,   brothers 

 Chinese Christians ’ in Hong Kong 

 feel how the society thinks about   the power relationship in a family 

 Jesus ’ teaching how Family members ’ 

 relationship and interests relate to   each others 

 Chinese Christians ’ in Hong Kong   see the hierarchy in the 

 conventional Chinese family 

 picture of the teaching and help the participants of the workshop to relate to their own experience . We   shared the whole process and we together co - created the learning by discussing and drawing the diagrams 

 together . The participants felt the ownership of the knowledge that they are all involved to create . I myself   experienced on the power of visualization can help in the process of drawing people ’s insights for   co - creation . Visual tools also help explain abstract concepts so it helps make sure participants and   co - workers are of the same page .     Recognizing the power of visual tools , I am ready to continue to use visual tools in my future workshop   designs to create engagement experience with workshop participants . I ’d also recommend the use to my   colleagues . The insight I learn from this experience is that the facilitators wanting to use visual tools need   to be prepared with some physical materials , say “ post - it notes ” , white board , a big - enough common area 

 that every participants and actively engage in the discussion . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: Man Man Kwok
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: Reflection – Man Man Kwok   Challenge and selection 

 I have once ran a workshop to help a church organization to understand the way Jesus taught about how   He means about His real family , the values he treasured and preached , and how He organized His disciples   to form the very first Christian Church . All the 8 participants were Christians , and they sought for a deeper   understanding on the teaching of Jesus and connect to their daily lives experiences . They were from   different backgrounds , including secondary school teacher , scientist at laboratory , clerical workers ,   freelancers , student and a blind man .       Since concepts of family relationships , values and organizations are abstract ideas , I chose “ visual thinking ”   to gather the thoughts and insights of the participants , and make sure they are on the same page . 

 Application     I make use of “ post - it ” note ( sticky note ) to gather the thoughts of the participants . I asked them to write   ( or draw ) on each note one “ character ” in a family ( i.e. “ father ” , “ son ” , “ grandparent ” , etc ) in a general   perspective . The ideas were first clustered and then I ask them to organize the “ characters ” into a chart of   family tree on white board . It revealed that , in general perspective , Chinese people have an extended   family concept and think that there are at least three level of hierarchy in family ( grandparents , parents and   kids ) . They also pointed out that the center of a family belongs to the parents , and the Father is always the 

 central commander who possesses most of the authority . So , we drew a set of concentric circle in which   parents is the center . 

 After that , the participants were asked to look into the Bible and pick from Jesus ’ saying about His family   members . Using the same method , the participants also listed the family members Jesus mentioned on 

 post - it note one by one , and then the notes were re - organized into “ Jesus ’ family tree ” . When compared   the two family charts , we found that Jesus ’ ideal family relationship has a flatter hierarchy than our   common customs that consist of only two generations , and in the parent level the membership of “ father ”   has been absented . There is also a difference that Jesus emphasized Children should be at the central focal   and their interests should be served first . 

 The family trees and the organizational concentric circles helped us in the further discussion of how Jesus   innovated a more fairer structure in family than the patriarchic system in the history and nowadays , and   how this imply on the relationship between the peer ( the brother - sister - hood ) . We also discussed that the   absent of a “ father ’s role ” in Jesus ’ ideal family is pointing to His teaching that there is only One Father in   Heaven , the God . These teaching on relationship between family members and between people and God   were used by Jesus as metaphor to build His very first Church organization . 

 Insights and Approach     The visual tools help us re - organize the Bible says scattered in different Gospels and articulate a clear 

 Parents 

 Kids 

 relatives ( such   as   grandparents ,   uncles and   aunts ) 

 Children 

 Mother ,   sisters ,   brothers 

 Chinese Christians ’ in Hong Kong 

 feel how the society thinks about   the power relationship in a family 

 Jesus ’ teaching how Family members ’ 

 relationship and interests relate to   each others 

 Chinese Christians ’ in Hong Kong   see the hierarchy in the 

 conventional Chinese family 

 picture of the teaching and help the participants of the workshop to relate to their own experience . We   shared the whole process and we together co - created the learning by discussing and drawing the diagrams 

 together . The participants felt the ownership of the knowledge that they are all involved to create . I myself   experienced on the power of visualization can help in the process of drawing people ’s insights for   co - creation . Visual tools also help explain abstract concepts so it helps make sure participants and   co - workers are of the same page .     Recognizing the power of visual tools , I am ready to continue to use visual tools in my future workshop   designs to create engagement experience with workshop participants . I ’d also recommend the use to my   colleagues . The insight I learn from this experience is that the facilitators wanting to use visual tools need   to be prepared with some physical materials , say “ post - it notes ” , white board , a big - enough common area 

 that every participants and actively engage in the discussion .
### Output: 