Having a systems-thinking mindset is crucial for understanding the situation and connecting ideas to find solutions, especially in complex problems like SDG 13. It helps the team identify important project factors and narrow down feasible ideas. Additionally, gathering feedback and engaging with stakeholders and peers aids in understanding the problem and finding effective solutions. Embracing feedback and collaboration lead to better problem-solving and decision-making.

Empathy mapping played a vital role in comprehending the task's pain points, providing diverse perspectives from the SGD's end and individual contributors. Understanding actors' emotions helped shape effective recommendations for raising awareness about sustainable food practices to combat climate change. Embracing empathy is crucial in addressing others' predicaments and valuing team members' opinions for better interactions. It made me realize the significance of stepping into the shoes of those affected by climate change to find viable solutions. This task yielded valuable solutions for the challenges people face due to climate change, by empathetically connecting with their vulnerable situations.

Determining and understanding complex issues such as food miles requires a systems-thinking mindset. Using this approach, we can appreciate the interconnectedness of different elements and see the problem from a variety of angles. We can discover the root causes of a problem by examining the root causes of the problem rather than just identifying the visible surface issues. Further, engaging with stakeholders and Team members can assist in figuring out the problem.

In order to understand each other and align their personal goals with common ones, teams use the team canvas to become more familiar with each other, to identify the strength and weakness of each team member, as well as their expectations. In order to decide the needs and expectations for the project, we were able to collaborate together.

Being able to collaborate, form ideas together, and conceptualize our thoughts as a team, we were able to understand everyone's perspective and have a wider range of understanding of the project. The concept of ideation has effectively helped the team discern what points to consider and what do we need to disregard. Furthermore, as an individual, ideation has helped me become more empathetic and reflective of other people's thoughts and it has enhanced my critical thinking skills as well. Additionally, this made me realize how significant other people's viewpoints are to formulate a more effective and efficient solution.

The value of having a systems-thinking mindset helps the team to understand the situation and the relation of the idea to come up with possible solutions. This is vital, especially for a complex problem like comprehending SDG 13 and planning a layout for the current project, because the team gets to recognize the different factors associated with the project and be able to narrow down our ideas into something more feasible and comprehensible. Moreover, this mindset helps the team realize the most pressing problems of the project and be able to configure a more realistic and impactful plan to address them effectively.

having a systems-thinking mindset helped me figure out common occurrences that were affecting the problem through out the journey , identifying and isolating these occurrences helped gain better insight into the problem , running multiple iterations on the framework helped define the problem better.

Empathy mapping was crucial in deciphering the pain points of the task at hand and it also brought in different perspectives to the problem from the SGD's end as a whole and also from individual contributors , being able to comprehend an actor's emotions and feelings about the situation was a great way to build on an effective recommendation to combat climate change by bringing awareness about sustainable food practices

Prototyping helps us test our final design at a smaller scale using lesser resources do that we can modify it as per the response to that prototyping. Every plan might not be perfect and may require constant modifications till we get it right, so when we prototype we can better understand what we did is right and what can be changed to make it better. Doing this we can remove the fear of failure as we know we can make changes and not waste the work done till now but take it as a sign to build up from that point and when we have prototyped multiple times we can now put greater resources in place and see better results.

The ability to empathize with the people whose problems we are trying to alleviate is essential. As a result of empathy, we can appreciate the opinions of the team members and interact more effectively. In addition, it helped me realize that in order to find a solution, we need to put ourselves in the shoes of people who are adversely affected by climate change.

This task really helped me to find a solution for the problem that people are facing due to climate change. One of the easy ways to get the solution is to think about the way people are facing this vulnerable situation.

The Empathy mapping task helped us as a team and also as an individual it gave a practical approach to understand the problems related to food and how it is affecting the Climate. It is also helped me to understand that to find a solution you need to put your self on the place of people who are really affected unknowingly by climate change so we can find a solution very easily.

We generated a lot of creative ideas while working on Team Canvas as a team. which made it easier for us to tackle the issues and understand individuals skill sets. Additionally, It also help us to achieve our individual goal as well as common project goals.

The Mobius strip activity and working with #CTN made it clear to me that what we do every day matters a lot and that we should always consider how our actions will impact the environment and the world before acting. I discovered that we can accomplish much more when we work together after learning more about the ME=WE event.