Welcome back everyone! Week 4 at Netcare Access and The Columbus Foundation were filled with fun social events, introspective questions, and lots of interesting mini projects. I feel like I have gotten the swing of things at Netcare and am really starting to know and enjoy my time with all the staff there.

I started this week off strong with a Columbus Foundation social event at the Columbus Commons. The other fellows and I gathered to watch Rick Ross and the Columbus Symphony, which was definitely an interesting collaboration of classical music and rap. It was an amazing experience to get to know the other fellows more personally especially since we are all placed at different sites.

On Wednesday, we spent our morning at The Columbus Foundation continuing our conversation on leadership. We watched a video about the importance of all individuals being a leader, while emphasizing the problems with hierarchical leadership. At the end of our session, Dr. Lomax asked us to dig deep and answer how we would leverage our power, passion, purpose, and more to make change. As someone extremely passionate about mental health, (specifically in adolescents) I found it easy to immediately answer how I wanted to change the world. But when I thought more about my other passion, music, I was stuck as to how I wanted to make an influence in that part of my life. Listening to the other fellows talk about their uncertainty with the future was extremely reassuring knowing that it is completely normal to not know what we want to do yet. This whole session was such an interesting topic, while also provoked some deeper thoughts.

This past week at Netcare consisted of many different projects. I got to write an article for our quarterly newsletter and focused a lot on collecting client testimonials for our campaign. I also made various social media posts like I have been doing and started reaching out to staff members for potential shadowing opportunities and coffee chats. 

Overall, this week has been extremely fun and engaging, and I am looking forward to more exciting things next week!

Best,

Anaika