Within your community are many supports for your wellness journey. They can help you succeed with your wellness goals. You may have medical clinics, youth sexual health clinics, drop in centres, different physical activity spots, outdoor trails, skating rinks, a community track, fitness centre or pool, yoga studio, martial arts classes, restaurants that serve healthy options and maybe even day spas!

This is your chance to investigate places in your community that you might use to support you with your goals.

Your task is to create a Community Wellness Tour using a format called a Pecha Kucha. Your Pecha Kucha will showcase all of the places in your community which offer services related to health and wellness.

What’s a Pecha Kucha, you ask?

A traditional Pecha Kucha is a way of sharing a message using images: a presenter has 20 slides, each of which stays on the screen for 20 seconds, to explain a topic. This allows a presentation of just less than four minutes. When the 20 seconds are up, the image changes - regardless of where the speaker is in her or his presentation. This demands that the speaker be concise. He or she must know what to convey to an audience in advance. The slides are not cluttered with words; rather, the presenter does the speaking and the images complement her or his speaking points.

Assignment Instructions

• Identify seven to ten different places and/ or people in your community that offer services to support health and wellness.
• Take photos of places in your community or find them from local websites.
• Briefly describe what they offer related to health and wellness and how they might support you in achieving your own wellness goals.
• Select three services and/or people that you will most likely use as part of your personal wellness action plan. Explain your reason for each selection.
• Organize your pictures in a logical sequence for your Pecha Kucha slides. Consider organizing them by the components of wellness, by proximity to your home, or by how they will help you achieve your goals.
• Create your Pecha Kucha by adding speaking notes which describe the place and/or person. These presentations can easily be created in any program or app that allows you to record voice and visuals at the same time.
• You may also choose to write out your points instead of speaking. If you choose this option, you will need to write what you would say for each image in a document and submit it with your Pecha Kucha. Keep in mind that if you read what you have written out loud, it should take you 20 seconds for each image. Time how long it takes you. Adjust the writing for each image as needed.

Need more help with your Pecha Kucha? You can easily find examples online, but a few on a variety of topics have been provided below:

• The format and history of Pecha Kucha;
• A Quest for Adventure;
• Seemed like a Good Idea at the Time;
• When Life Gives You Lemons.

Use your information from Activity 6 to help you complete this Action Plan template.

This template will help you focus on your goals each week and help you track your progress.

Now that you have created your action plan, you are ready to get active to implement your plan.

1. Put your plan into action this week.
2. Use your Action Plan Template from the previous assignment to record your actions for this first week.
3. At the end of the week, write a paragraph reflecting on your week, your challenges, and your successes.