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Opening Activities

Write a letter to your future self, which will be returned to you near the end of your service year. Explore your current thoughts, feelings, and aspirations, and provide a record of your life and who you are now. Use mind mapping to organize your ideas and release your creativity.

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Opening Activities

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  1. Opening Activities Letters to Self & Mind Mapping

  2. Write a letter to your future self What: Write a letter to your future self, which will be returned to you near the end of your service year. Purpose: • To provide a record of your life and who you are now • To anchor in time your current views, attitudes, philosophy/outlook • To explore your feelings and opinions about a variety of issues • To create a tool for future reflection Writing prompts: • Me, now: your current hopes, fears, dream, intentions, goals, problems, likes/dislikes, who you are – write like it’s a journal entry, what’s happening now and your initial thoughts about service and your site and community • Send your future self some words of inspiration • Share your thoughts on where you’ll be or what you’ll be up to, what you may have learned or what you hope to have accomplished (professionally or personally) in a year from now Steps: • Write your letter • Seal and address your envelope (an address you will still have by the end of your VISTA year) • Once finished, give it to your VISTA Leader to collect.

  3. Pros of Mind Mapping • Release creativity • Organic • No hierarchies of ideas • Organize thoughts • Link ideas • Start a new project • Visual Mind mapping was founded by Tony Duzan

  4. Bee Skills

  5. The five essential characteristics: • The main idea, subject or focus is in the center. • The main themes radiate from the central image as 'branches‘. • The branches comprise a key image or key word drawn or printed on its associated line. • Topics of lesser importance are represented as 'twigs' of the relevant branch. • The branches form a connected nodal structure.

  6. The Path

  7. Let’s Get Started! • Start in center with image or word • “My VISTA Year”, “2015-16”, “Personal Plans” • Work your way out • Use images, symbols, codes, or key words Think about… • Your year • Your path • Your dreams • Your goals • Your challenges

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