Interests
Cooking
Baking
Permaculture
Aquaponics
Rock climbing
Bike powered crafts
Painting
Sewing
Writing
Gardening
Mushroom Hunting
Wild edible foraging
Teaching
Languages
Reading
Playing music
Arts & Crafts
Kayaking
Fermentation
My Skill Flex (now) Radar Chart
In this skillflex map you will see my current competency within each subject, it has skils depicting : language, IT, sustainability, organization, permaculture design, and writing.
Personal and peer goals
Personal goals:
Create my own home base, even if it is temporary
Find time for myself, indulge in myself
Spend time being healthy, exercise, yoga
Expand my vocabulary
Talk with intention - mindful of word choice
Attention towards art projects, learning french, cooking and baking
Peer goals:
Develop more quality friendships
Expand my support system within my community
Better listener
Encourage more
I have chosen these goals for many reasons. Mainly, I really like to please other people and make sure they're happy and successful in their life-although, that then takes away from my personal well-being at times. Really, it's learning about when and how to say 'No' and listen to what I really need. I also want to be able to express those needs in the most authentic way possible. These goals are to hold myself accountable/remind myself of what I am achieving on a personal level.
Project goals
By August host an outreach program for permaculture
Focus on adventure- wilderness therapy, nature awareness
Education- observe and interview schools, how to bring community into the classroom
Community- community gatherings, what is community video
Professional, political and patrix goals
Professional:
I would like to focus on gaining my Teaching English as a second language certificate so I can move over-seas. I also will focus on learning French by using an application called Duolingo. I will also label things around my house and start watching episodes in French. I want to learn French to help my chances of moving abroad and finding a job. I would also like to focus on Urban Ecology for my Capstone year as much as possible. I want to attend educational workshops throughout the year through the Permaculture Guild in Madison, and Transition Madison Area.
Political:
I don't really like to bring up politics to others because it tends to get heated. I come from a family with very different views and politics are usually brought up in an oppressive way and I tend to become submissive. I vote, and I am passionate about what I value and I compassionate towards the person I vote for but in the end I am just grateful that I have a voice and a chance to vote. It's safe to say I will keep majority of my political views out of my professional and educational work.
Patrix:
Discrimination and black rights has been smothering the news (rightfully so) in the United States lately. It has brought a lot to my attention that I haven't really had to understand or witness being caucasian and living in a time where there had been great head-way of integration for African-Americans into our lives. It has made me realize it is still about race and it's always been about race and that is something I would like to see myself look past as well as my community. I want to do what I can to support everyone of any color and gender in my life.
How I'd like my skill-flex radar to look in Dec 2014
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Professional Skillflexes mod.xmind Details
Download Professional Skillflexes mod.xmind [166.5KB]}Projected skillflex in 2014
This skillflex map depicts where I would like to be at the end of my Gaia U year. The purple text highlights skills I would like to acquire and the rest are my current skillflexes.