Changemaker Concept Map - Antonia Mou

1. Resilience

1.1. "The higher you're aiming for, or the more difficult things that you're venturing into, the more setbacks you will face in life ... For me to overcome setbacks, it’s just that I make a decision to overcome it instead of avoiding it. I believe that where there's a will, there will be a way." - Liza Wang

1.2. "Your goal should be to work on things that are ambitious enough and new enough that they fail sometimes. That should be part of your lifetime success." - Professor Terry Johnson

1.3. "I sit for a moment, and I take a deep breath, and I try and look back, and sort of try and figure out what went wrong, right? Take the emotions out of it, and really learn about what went wrong. And then try and figure out, why did it go wrong?" - Professor Maximilian Auffhammer

2. Communication

2.1. "It's a process of giving and receiving critique that creates more useful knowledge and more productive art making." - Professor Lisa Wymore

2.2. "When you invite people into the system, when you talk to them about the things that they care about, when you in fact, meet them where they're at and educate them on the ways in which political engagement can be meaningful for them … Once you help people see themselves as having power in that system, in fact, they do engage." - Vice Provost García Bedolla

3. Question the Status Quo

3.1. "Often we see opportunities or we see things that don't feel quite right and doing something about that or going down that road feels really risky. But what I like to tell my students is any trend, if you can see it it's over. And so in fact, building something new may be very difficult, but that's where the real payoff comes." - Vice Provost García Bedolla

3.2. "When you find meaning, grab hold of it. Don't apologize if that is important to you, if that enriches your life. You've got to maintain that because you're going to have all of these pressures from outside about what you should be doing, what you should be feeling, what you should be thinking." - Professor Terry Johnson

4. Collaboration

4.1. "Oftentimes we hold onto to ideas thinking we wanna be the first ones to let them blossom and explode, but when you share your ideas and you let people know how you're thinking about them, you never know what might come your way." - Professor Ula Taylor

5. Critical Thinking

5.1. "I think that engaging in multiple methods, that is instead of thinking there's only one way to get to an answer, try to employ multiple ways of thinking about the question that you're most interested in." - Professor Ula Taylor

5.2. "Critical thinking is not so much how do I solve this problem? It's how do I know what the right answer is? How do I know that I'm not wrong? How do I know that this fact, or law, or number that I'm counting on is wrong?" - Dean Bob Jacobson

6. Leadership

6.1. "I think one of the true definitions of leadership is the ability to bring folks together to the table, check their agenda at the door, keep their eyes on the prize, and get things done for the community." - Dean Michael Lu

6.2. "It took me quite some time to really learn to trust my gut and really learn to trust my own stories and to trust my own wisdom and to be able to take what I could from those dominant narratives, but also believe that I had something to contribute." - Vice Provost García Bedolla

7. Changemaking

7.1. "Changemakers stand on the shoulders of previous changemakers … those of us who care to enter this area really build on what's been done in the past, and we build on the networks and the connections that past changemakers have done before us." - Professor Lisa Wymore

7.2. "Many times people underestimate the biggest change. A niche hobby today could turn into the biggest idea tomorrow ... believe that changemaking starts with yourself. It's about doing something that you truly believe in no matter what other people think. It's not about trying to get approval from anybody." - Jerry Luk