Just a reminder...
Dissemination Efforts
I am sharing my Gaia work through my local community by hosting gatherings and bringing my projects to life. I have had a wild foraging excursion with friends and a harvest dinner with the items that were foraged. I have also built a mini-greenhouse and had people join in in making their own small greenhouse with me. I provided insight into the importance of a greenhouse and foraging. I feel like this adds value to their lives living in a city and knowing they can be sustainable or make efforts into introducing ecology into their daily lives in a simple manner.
Goals and Closing the Loops
Professional goals
Niche Analysis Explained
I have gleaned this niche idea off of another Gaia associate, Simha Bode. I found it when I was looking at other associates LIPD's to get some ideas for mine. I really liked the concept of it and it felt like a good way to reflect on my skills in a personal and professional way. This niche analysis embodies the skills and passions that I continually put attention towards in my life. I feel like it rounds out who I am as a whole by diving into the specific categories and labeling my talents within them. I would like to re-evaluate this niche analysis every year to keep it current and up-to-date to reflect who I am in the moment.
Skillflex Assessment
In the image below I have displayed my skills that I would like to work on throughout this year. I have chosen to split the categories by color, you can see the categories in the key located on the upper right hand side of the graphic. I will address these skills during my Capstone year in my project work, professional work, and in my personal life. I have designated more attention on languages, IT technology and sustainable agriculture however. My reasonings behind this choice is due to the fact I want to move abroad, focus on urban ecology, and one of my output goals is to focus on creating a more mixed-media output.
Some of these professional skills tend to combine with my peer, personal and project goals. The skills that I have and the skills that I desire to have will help me achieve my highest potential in life. They will help me: give a public speech (maybe in another language!), organize and facilitate, check-in with others and myself, expand my critical thinking and receiving as well as giving constructive criticism. I feel like the skills are very well-rounded and can be sought out in many different area. They can help with building a community, starting a women's group, initiating a gathering, running for the green party, building a garden (especially in the city). To me those examples are a variety of peer, personal, professional and political pathways I can take with the skill-flexes that I have or desire to achieve.
Tracking my Skillflexes
Disclaimer: Please do not fill out the form above as it tracks my own personal data. Feel free to make your own application in your Google Drive account under Form.
I have created this chart to track my skillflexes throughout my year. I will have to first pick which one(+) of the five categories it falls into. The categories are: IT Technology, Languages, written & communications, sustainable agriculture, and organization. I will then state my specific attention (i.e. spanish, interviews, mahara). After that in the next box I will describe the specific way I used the skill. The next three columns pays attention to the skill-levels. It will be used to see where I am currently at on skills and where I ended up and where I had anticipated on being. The highest a skill level can obtain is a 10, the lowest is a 1. Once a skillflex is at 10 it would be considered Mastered. The last column is for me to mark which outputs I felt the skills were used in or had attention towards the specific skills. I will include this tracking chart in each output from here on out.