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Participation in decision making

Expression about what I think

Good

Participation

Positive

Original ideas

Listen to all ideas without killing them

Take the project serious

Focus when it's needed

Improve

More testing

I think we worked pretty well together with the positive psychology students. Sometimes the motivation was to low in my group.

FINAL OUTCOME

We decided instead of giving the attendees a ballon each to put one big balloon in the middle of the room where everyone can write something negative on and than in the beginning they all pop the negativity together.

Once they are free of the negative emotion the workshop foucs on the positivity. While the workshop they have to fill out the personal mindmap, that you can see in the picture. I made this template in illustrator.

We solved the problem of having a reminder of the negative emotion in your picture with giving each a balloon (can be a real ballon or made out of paper) in the end to write something positive on. Now they can make a happy picture with the positive balloon. The polaroid complete the personal mindmap and is a nice reminder about the workshop to take home.

The feedback for the Polaroid was that the workshop attendees than always see the negative emotion in the picture and always get reminded to it. Also they said that some people are afraid of the sound of a popping a balloon.

So I come up with the idea to add some stickers to the Polaroid that cover up the negative part. We came up with the idea of a wooden balloon that you don't have to pop. Also I had the idea to make a template that devide the different sections in colors.

We decided to show the PP-students in the next meeting with them our 4 favourite ideas.

Idea 1: A goodiebag with some exercises for after the workshop for example a postcard with a stamp on it that you have to send to someone you grateful for. A WhatsApp group reminds you about the exercises.

Idea 2: A Polaroid / mindmap template that the attendees fill out while the workshop. They can take it home after the workshop as a reminder.

Idea 3: Ballon idea - pop the negative Ballons to get rid of your negative thoughts.

Idea 4: Teabags with some quotes / questions on. That the attendees make think of in their tea break.

We asked the PP-students to give us some feedback for every idea (positive, negative, questions and ideas).

We were not really happy with our ideas and thought we didn't gave our best so we started another ideation session. We collected a lot of different ideas. Afterwards everybody could choose their 3 favourite ideas.

We came up with the design challenge: How can we develop a workshop to help friends and family better understand the effect of positive emotions?

The PP-students want to invite as their workshop attendes friends and family, so that's the target group we're focusing on.

The PP-students had already an first idea for the workshop, a card game and a positivity map. And they really wanted something that the workshop attendees can take home with them after the workshop.

We started with a first basic brainstorm to help the workshop attendees to better understand the PERMA pillars (focus from our group on positive emotions and relationships). I came up with the idea to fill the room with Ballons where the attendees can write on their negative emotions. To get rid of them they can just pop the balloon in the end.

Another idea for example was to create a personal happiness mindmap with different themes like gratitude, value and strenghts.

In the next step we wrote down some known knowns and known unknowns about the project.

In the beginning it wasn't clear for us which kind of product or activity we have to design for them.

It was also kind of hard to think about something because the other students didn't started to think about what they want to do in their workshop.

Afterwards we used the cover story tool to come up with the most amazing future for our design intervention. So you think about how you appear on a magazin cover. It can help to show the vision of a product / company and to get into a future state of mind.

DEBRIEFING:

In the first step we summarized how we understand the assignment and wrote down some facts about the conditions, deadlines potential users and goals.

INTRO PROJECT 2:

In our second project we worked together with the students from the minor 'Positive psychology'. The assignment was to design a experimental positive design intervention that the 'Positive psychology' students can use for their workshops on the 14th of June.