This blog post began when I started reflecting. I was talking about this as one of my first interventions I realized that I was not going to have enough words. I needed to think critically about what I wanted to include in this piece. So I decided to work more on the blog, and my tutors can look at it whenever I reference it, because if I tried to include everything here, I might never finish, or it would be endless for a tutor to read.
When I was first thinking about interventions I was thinking of creating workshops and circles to inspire conversations about the subject and get this to lead to different conclusions my first test honestly went really well however when I wanted to do it more towards a different focus group which were people who were actively talking about their eating disorders online I got into a completely different field because I reached out to 172 people who are active online specifically in Tik Tok and from those 74 got back to me and started chatting with me and asking me questions about what this would look like from those 9 people told me no directly or that they were not up for it or they were underage and needed consent so it would not work out however I did thank them very much for reaching back out to me. After starting chatting with several people some of them stopped responding some were not interested I am assuming or did not feel comfortable with participating and others told me they had to speak with their therapists and never got back to me so I am assuming that this means that they were recommended not to participate but this is something that I completely understand in total this people were around 34 individuals or accounts however they might answer in the next couple of days who now because some people have taken a while to respond. 10 of the individuals I reached out to told me they would prefer private correspondence through messages. Then I had 4 people say they were going to show up for a group but did not end up showing up or canceled at the last minute which is also very valid since this is such a sensitive group however because of this different situations I have been able to talk to 5 people one on one about different subjects some of them are health practitioners and some of them are people in recovery or survivors (I like to use the word survivor because I do believe and the people who i have spoken to that there can be true recovery and they can live a very normal life even if at times they still go through struggles). I still have a couple of meetings set up in the next few days so I have to wait and see how those go, however I was realizing that planning on people getting together was not very realistic and if I stayed on doing this it was going to be a mess so I decided that since some people were still corresponding with me that did not have time or did not want to participate with a group go people I gave them another option which was to wander a couple of questions on a padlet. Honestly, most people I asked responded and were very receptive. Still, I needed more interventions; I could not just show up with a Padlet, and this is where the ideas I described previously in my blog about going to the malls came from. Even though I described this in previous blog posts, I hadn’t included specific numbers, which I find important, and I need to address this more in my analysis. I am still looking to create some roundtables for talks with different Colombian designers, as well as to talk to more creatives, but I may have to do this one-on-one; who knows, I will see as time goes on.
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