Mindful Tides
Throughout my last semester at Miami I completed my Senior Design Project. Centered around mindfulness, gratitude, and fostering better mental health practices, my project expanded my own knowledge of a topic that is very important to me as well as helping others, and myself implement these practices to better our own mental health.
How might I build a practice of mindfulness centered around gratitude to better facilitate good mental health and manage change ?
The Problem
Mindful Tides was a project born out of my own reflections on mental health and wellness in times of transition and change. Through research, self- ethnography, empathy, and reflection I pursued the question: How might I build a practice of mindfulness centered around gratitude to better facilitate good mental health and better manage change?
The Solution
Through research about habit building, good mental health practices, and my own self-reflection, I came up with my solution. Three guided journals called Mindful Tides. The goal of these three journals is to equip you with the tools to help you manage the tides of change, transition, and your overall mental health. Mindful Tides focuses on three mental health practices that when implemented, combine to help manage change and transition by helping you better understand yourself and your experiences. Putting Mindfulness, Gratitude, and Self- Reflection into practice sets you up for a healthier mindset when it comes to change. These three tools can ground you and be a point of clarity and regulation in a time of transition.
Learn more about my process, research, and the impact of this project in my Case Study.
Impact Statement
This project did exactly what I hoped it would. I was able to explore deeper the challenges of mental health, look inward at my own struggles, and focus that into a solution that I am immensely proud of. There are so many places this project could be taken and I am excited to explore how this project might grow and expand into something much larger. My work on this project was more than aesthetics and typography, I chose a concept that was very important to me and I persevered through the struggles of such a complex and tricky concept to deliver a solution that delivers good.