Individual Basis

• MeditatingMeditation

  • KB advocates

• Walks in nature at least once a week (it is your civic duty now!)

• Separating yourself from your role on the team

• Understanding failures are not representative of your abilities or self worth, and that they’re natural and part of the process

• Clear your mind before going to bed - read a book or something

• Avoid apologizing for things that you don’t need to apologize for (e.g. sorry, I had to finish an assignment, etc.). This stuff you’re entitled to yourself, and don’t have to apologize to anyone else for.

• Saying it as it is - being clear and honest/upfront about your progress on work

• Be allowed to make mistakes

• Have some reassurance that someone will be there to support with workload

  • Would need some kind of system to implement this

• Everyone should respect Sunday Sabbath

• Individuals should have the freedom to schedule days off once in a while

  • More on a personal basis

• Begin creating a culture that people are allowed to openly express that they need help

• TT: Stronger emphasis on Midnight Sun social events?

  • CC: We get lots of feedback on socials, but people don’t show up

  • LB: Don’t enjoy social events on zoom with more than 4 or 5 people
    You can’t have proper conversations between people

    • CC: Less intimate for sure

  • CC: A past event: social event where people are split into groups

  • LB: The bar for casually talking to someone and the bar of how well you know someone
    Getting to know someone is a process
    Bar for getting to know someone (befriending someone) is harder to do online
    Huge turnover on the team - how to have a casual conversation with someone

    • KB: Doing 1on1’s can help with that
      In zoom call, one person talks at a time

• KB: Everyone should go outside and get fresh breath

• CC: Regulating exposure to work
  Keeping slack and other items muted unless things are urgent

  • TT: Puts away phone during work to not worry about incoming slack messages

• KB: Don’t do work in your bedroom
  Your brain registers your room as one item --- therefore you always feel like work constantly

  • CC: Taking a walk outside before starting to work? Any studies?

  • RV: Don’t eat at your desk, too.

  • MB: Remove phone from room so you don’t get distracted

  • KB M: When finished work, take a walk outside so brain knows work is done

• ML: Student success team run a pen pal program? Random 1:1 connections

  • KB: Similar to Midnight Sun Mentorship Circle

  • ML: Having a connection with a mentor helps ease people into getting to know the rest of the team, e.g. core/leads meeting

  • CC/KB: Opening up convo with peer-to-peer? Some other benefits?

    • KB: concern that one or both people disappear

• KB: Try to send out a survey to figure out who has a fixed mindset and try to make them more aware of it -- helps how people handle failure and improve mental health

  • KB: Fixed mindset

    • Feel threatened by other people’s success

      • Growth mindset: Talks to the successful person and tries to learn more about them

    • Cares more about what people think about them as opposed to just learning the thing

    • Believe intelligence is fixed

      • Growth mindset: Knowledge is accumulated

  • ML: exhibited some fixed mindset and took failures personally (missing deadlines) - resulted in damaging mental health

  • TT: didn’t realize there was certain vocabulary for mental health
    Realized that it’s a spectrum and someone can lean towards growth mindset while exhibiting few traits of fixed mindset

  • MB: reach out in 1on1’s - people can’t solve a problem unless they understand

    • KB: survey to see how many traits they hit
      If they hit more than ### then send some resources to them to educate and encourage growth mindset

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