Team Charter

Group Name: Food for Thought: What are YOU Eating?

Check-in: 

Michelle: I am scared of working in a group. Its hard to trust over people to do what they say their going to do.

Brooklyn: I’m scared about the information I will learn during this project and how it will impact my life.  The action plan as a whole is a daunting task, one of which I have never one before.  Being in a group I feel supported because everyone is doing the project together and will have some of the same feelings as me.

Sophie: supported, productive and great communication. 

Janice: Very excited to learn from others in this group.  I think we have different perspectives but a similar vision.

Jenny: Excited: To learn about the problems around food consumerism and what we put into our bodies. Learning from each others ideas and experiences.

Values: 

Michelle: I believe that the jigsaw approach allowed us to gather more information. Group work is important because you have to with people throughout life.  

Brooklyn: I believe group work is important because a group provides a wealth of knowledge that otherwise I ma not have been able to access.  I am interested in learning about why some people think/feel the way they do (what experiences brought them here, and influence them).  Groups are able to make large projects more manageable so they are not so overwhelming and daunting.

Sophie: sharing resources, getting more accomplished. Making a permanent pro health and environment change and creating awareness is why this project is so important.

Janice: I’m a bit of a control freak so it is hard to let go and have a group consensus.  My strengths lie in seeing what needs to be done and delegating tasks.

Jenny: Everyone comes together and shares their thoughts and ideas. Everyone takes part and does their share of the work and everyone learns from each other. The group is their to support each and helps each other when they are having problems. Everyone shares each others successes. You can always create something better when you work in a group compared to when you work alone because you have more then one person's ideas. 

Vision:

• creating awareness in others starting within our own group
• learning to trust others, learning to work in a group, learning to take diverse views and use them for a common goal
• scared about how the information will impact your life; have each other as a support group to not be overwhelmed and help us process what we learn or maybe how we can use it.
• we all share in each other’s successes (feedback on the blog, in group discussion)

Ground Rules: 

1. Respect others and their opinions: listening when someone else is talking, acknowledging the other is talking, not be negative towards the opinion of others (if there are differences, asks questions to see where the other is coming from)
2. Come prepared for meetings (with tasks assigned from meetings)
3. Follow agenda in meetings
4. At the end of each meeting assign tasks, create agenda for next meeting and decide when we will meet again.
5. Blogging: sharing of resources that we find and reflections of our process.  Our presentation will just be a meta-reflection of our blog posts.