Create your story

Module 05 Content

Background
OverviewLet’s get to the heart of the matter – what is YOUR story? What is your background, knowledge, and experience? What brings you joy and passion? What are the next steps in your career? Understanding yourself better will help you advocate and lobby for issues close to your heart and your career. Your personal story will help influence stakeholders and legislators. Directions
You will write a personal story following the steps below.

Head, Hands, and Heart Model: Using the included graphic (or another graphic of your choice), explore the following questions. Write down or draw your answers on the model. You will use the information on your model for your written work. Be as creative and you want. You will submit a photo of your model with your final work.

Head: What do you know about? What is your data background experience? What knowledge, data, and information do you know about? What knowledge do you draw upon?

Hands: What action will you do or take? How will you use your hands to make change? What skills and tactics will you use?

1. Heart: What motivates you? What are your passions? What brings you joy? What inspires and empowers you?

Feet: Whose shoes do you need to walk in to learn more about others? What grounds your practice – in terms of values, standards, ethics, etc.?

Module 05 Model.pdf 

YOUR Story:

Share your story! Use your Head, Hands, and Heart Model to write your two-page story. Incorporate content from this module and outside research (as necessary) as you share your story with the lens of advocacy. Write as you would speak. Unlike your course essays, this writing is all about YOU. Let your personality shine through!

Make sure to include the following items in your story:

Your background, experience, and knowledge

Your passion areas

Who/what you need to learn more about in order to understand other people

Next steps in your career

• If you include citations, please include a reference page in APA format.

All work should be formatted professionally and use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation.