Week 2 - Storytelling

1) How do you feel about the process during the week?

This past week was a very special time for me in term of ‘trusting the process”. We had a lot of ups and downs exploring the storytelling module. On Monday and Tuesday, we learned about story telling and then we took our time to research on the topic. At certain point, I felt lost during the research process because the topic was too broad and I didn't know what I should focus. Having everyone come together on Wednesday and talked about the ideas helped me a lot. The group was very full of excitements after the presentations on Wednesday as people have very similar ideas even we were working in separately. We had some really good ideas to work on.  On Thursday, we got to chance to walk to some current Novas during a focus group exercise. It was definitely a great moment because we had some valuable inputs and it was nice to actually the Novas that we have been talking about for weeks. Friday is the turning point for me, and I believe for many other people in the group too. We spent much time arguing on the wording of the story that we wanted to tell without achieving any of our goals. We finally finished our story draft but it was definitely one of the disappointing moments.

2) Have you felt that you have been learning?

This week, I learned that we need to know the purposes of our work before starting each task, including our target audience and our goal. We had our idea of who we were writing our story to before we got a clarification. I think that was the main reason why we got in such a long and unproductive conversation of the wordings. I also think that we could have used the focus group time better if we knew exactly who our story is meant to be for. However, I still think that we are learning a lot from errors and mistakes as a group.