Organization: I organize my time and plan ahead to make sure that I allow enough time to dedicate to all the different aspects of my life.
Stress Resilience: When I face a life challenge, I feel confident that I handle the accompanying stress in a healthy way
Healthy Relationships: I am happy with my friendships and other social connections
Rest and Play: I actively take advantage of opportunities to try new activities and ways to have fun.
Handling Emotions: I am able to share all of my emotions (including sadness, happiness, fear, and worry) with people I trust.
Spirituality: I have activities that I do regularly to renew my soul, to center myself, and to gain perspective.
School and Work: I am satisfied with the way I pay attention, participate, and prepare homework for my classes, extracurriculars, volunteer work, or job.
Care for the Body: I determine what is right for me, in terms of weight and appearance, rather than letting my peers or the culture determine that for me.
My WOOP goal is that I want to work on speaking up for myself when I’m in an argument, but doing it in a calm way that actually helps solve the problem. Usually, I either stay completely quiet or get too angry, and neither one really helps. When I stay quiet, the other person doesn’t know how I feel an. When I get too mad, it just makes things worse.
I choose to make this as my WOOP goal is that I believe that good friends and family members should be able to talk things through, so I want to achieve that too. If I can learn to explain my feelings without yelling, my relationships will be much stronger. Plus, I won’t have to regret or think about what I said when I am done/finished with the conversation.
The biggest challenges for me while achieving remembering to stay calm when I’m upset and not being afraid to speak up. Usually, I worry that if I say how I feel, the other person will get mad at me and not understand me. Other times, my emotions feel too big to control. I might also run into problems if the other person isn’t willing to listen or talk things out nicely.
My plan for my WOOP goal is to first, practice taking deep breaths when I start feeling upset. This will help me stay calm enough to think before I speak. Second, I’ll use “I feel” statements instead of blaming the other person in the argument. So for example, when I say”I feel hurt when you cancel plans” works better than “You’re always flaking on me!” Third, I’ll really try to listen to what the other person is saying instead of just waiting for my turn to talk. Most importantly, I’ll focus on finding solutions instead of just arguing about who’s right.
So after I can master doing these things in basically every argument I participate, the arguments won’t be so scary or frustrating anymore. Instead of walking away mad or pretending everything’s fine when it’s not, I’ll be able to have real conversations that actually fix problems.
I used to think that social media and mental health do not have that much connection with one another, but now I think mental health and social media have a strong tie to each other. For social media, it could start allow people to have a craving for likes and views, so they are working so hard to look good in a photo. Also, Social Media can create anxiety and stigma about people’s understanding of mental illnesses so people who have these sicknesses feel worse and ashamed of their condition.
Another point that I used to think was that people who have these mental illnesses are only a minority, but now I think that mental illnesses can happen to anyone and you might not even notice it. In the mental health project, I learned that PTSD can occurs 5 to 10 percent of people who experience trauma. Also, from the other presentations from other groups, I have learned that mental illnesses are affecting a large population of people around the whole world.
Overall, I have understood the idea of how social media can affect mental health through negatively and through positive ways. But, that is the importance of why we should allow social media to turn its direction of its understanding of social media and how to cope and take treatments. I used to think that therapy would cure these illnesses completely but now I think that it is not only the patient that needs to work on it, its also the people around the patient, people’s understanding of these mental illnesses all are important factors that would allow social media and society to change their opinion toward mental health.
The app that I chose to help me with my WOOP goal is an app called Habit. It is an app that helps you keep track of how many habits you should have finished everyday and how many days have you finished the habits. I have started to use this app for 6 days already, and right now I can use it pretty smoothly after I got the hang of the app. I did face some challenges while working with the app, such as taking time on figuring out how to record your habit inside the calendar and making sure that there is a record of you finishing it everyday. But once you get the hang of it, the challenges would just fade away.
There are certainly some advance features such as a mood calendar on the app so that it could record your mood everyday, which is kind of another mode of a mood meter. Another advanced feature is that it could also check your stress level (if you have an Apple Watch), yet you need to be a premium member of the app, so I don’t have access. The basic features are simply recording your habit on a calander and sending notifications on your computer to remind you of keeping track of your habit.
“Habit” supports my WOOP goal by reminding and keeping track of my WOOP goal such as sending me reminders at the time I have set for my goal. “Habit” also keeps track of my goal so I can check how many days have I finished.
“Habit” as its name also allows me to make my WOOP goal to not only become a goal but it will transfer it into a habit. And the feature of the mood calendar can also make me be aware of each day’s emotion and make me take action to improve my emotional health. Not only my emotional health, “Habit” also improves my stress resilience. You see, the main idea of “Habit” is to allow me to increase my resilience of my habits and keep going forward no matter what’s ahead of you. Stress resilience has the same concept as “Habit”, so as you accomplish your habits more and more often, you will gradually improve both your stress resilience and your emotional health.
“Habit” not only supports the mental health but also your physical health for your body. For most people, their habits are mostly connected with things such as exercising or working out. Exercising helps shapes your body and allow your body to have a better immune system. So “Habit” can increase your body health.
Design:
Habit’s design is also considered very humane. For the calendar of keeping track of your goals on yourself, and keeping track of your mood. These are designs that are use- friendly and comfortable for us. Since it is a very human design, I think that if people started to us Habit for a long period of time, it will benefit themselves by shaping you into a person who finish your goal and allowing that little goal to transfer into a habit that will benefit you. Habit allows to have a stronger mental and physical health because you kept keeping up to your habits.
Using Habit also allows me to gain values that I didn’t have before. The value “Habit” is not a very important value for my life, so I wouldn’t give it a 10 out of 10. Yet, “Habit” has add value into my life of realizing the importance of resilience and of allowing me to pay attention to the outside world more than I have before I planned out my WOOP goal. For Habit has made me go outside and enjoy the views outside, so it did give a value that I will pursue for a long time.
In health, I have learned about how brain development works, and how are we suppose to take care of our negativity bias and thinking traps. Another thing that we learned is when our FFF mode gets triggered, we need to let our Amygdala calm down such as doing mindfulness practices, after that we let our thoughts go through the prefrontel – cortex so that we could think straight, and analyze the situation calmly. There are also moments where we don’t understand what we are feeling or simply don’t pay attention to these moments, so we use the mood meter to analyze our feelings. Also to self assess we use a wellness compass to check out what we are feeling about ourself and our stress level also different techniques such as the breath anchor in which we try and practice our breathing to calm down and different strategies to have a stronger stress resilience.
This video is a video of my final performance in Drama, where we perform our final Brechtian techniques of we chose to use in our play. This requires a understanding of what each technique’s purpose and where to put it in our play. Yet in this play I also learned that my flaws of being a bit of stage fright and understood that we need to prepare beforehand of our play.
In this picture it is a props that I had prepared for the scheme in which we have to show the roles of the characters of the scenes for it needs to be very simple and direct this was a prop that I had designed on my own and shows my creativity in Drama.
Creating a portfolio, or blog is a great way to collect all the work you’ve done throughout your academic career. You can include academic, athletic, and personal artifacts or experiences that you want to share with a wider audience. This is a great way to organize all your learning in one place and you can take it with you when you leave SAS. When you make your portfolio, you create posts that are categorized according to your subject. Some categories have already been set up for you, but if you need more categories you can add them as needed. It’s important that your posts have the following:
An engaging title – this should not include the name of the subject since this is referenced in the category. Think of this as the first opportunity to engage and hook your reader!
Body – this is where you share your learning. This should include a combination of text and media in the form of images, graphics, and embedded videos. You should always consider how your post looks to your audience. Is it engaging and organized? Do they want to keep reading?
Category – select one that has been set for you or add a new category. Posts can have more than one category e.g. Humanities and Myself as a Learner
Tags – create tags that can be used as keywords to describe your post. Tags help organize your post a little more! Aim to have 3-5 tags for each post. For example, if you are posting about a novel you wrote, you might want the following tags: #Fiction, #MurderMystery, #Theme, #PlotDiagram
Click on the images below to find a few helpful tips for creating your posts, adding media, and making categories:
