Instructional Design Volunteer Medicinal Foods at CrowdDoing

Instructional Design Volunteer Medicinal Foods & Herbs for Stress and Anxiety at CrowdDoing

Medicinal Foods

Imagine being able to use food as medicine to improve your performance and state of mind. What if you had all of the vital supplies to live a healthier life? If you didn't have to think twice about cooking healthier and you depended on safe, healthy foods to fuel your day? Medicinal Foods is not just a product, it is a way of life. Instead of treating the symptoms, we want to solve the mental health concerns at the root of the problem. Our ancestors understood the idea of food as medicine, so it is already deeply ingrained in our minds. We want to unlock nature's magic, untapped power, and potential. We aim to fill the gaps for information and misinformation about the foods you consume by removing barriers so that everyone who wants and deserves medicinal foods can get them. We are creating a long-term change for the better.

Why we exist/our reason for being

We live in a society in which pharmaceuticals are often the first recourse for dealing with stress, anxiety, and sleep disorders. People are disconnected from themselves, community and nature, and this is often the main cause of stress, anxiety, and sleep issues. For the first time, we can understand the deep relationship between our mental health, brain performance, and overall performance and the foods and herbs we consume. In the past, common health conditions such as lack of sleep, stress, and poor performance have been treated with traditional medicine. The potential of medicinal foods to address these challenges, does not receive the attention it deserves because their efficacy lies at the juncture of fields that are relatively closed off from each other. We wanted to bring the awareness to the benefits of medicinal properties of foods and herbs for health outcomes and wellbeing. Our ancestors’ and ancient society’s understanding of food as medicine is already in us, but just needs to be unleashed. From improving performance to uncovering the complex difficulty of reducing anxiety and stress and improving sleep habits, we work together to bring about a healthier world.

Our Mission

Medicinal foods is a social impact platform that aims to activate worldwide healthy communities through scientific research, education and citizen science. We believe in making medicinal foods and herbs a way of life to improve your daily living. We believe in giving power to service businesses in health and science and trust in self.

How it works

We use education as a tool to take people on a journey of adopting medicinal foods. We want to help build more connections in the community by providing educational and inspiration to help you understand the benefits of foods and herbds and share that understanding with others you love and care about. We’ll deliver on our promise by gathering our ingredients from local farming and growing stations. This will ensure that your food is long-lasting and good for the environment. We do this by researching and talking to farmers to understand their practice and by vetting herbal suppliers. We provide recommendations for national farms. Then we suggest balanced core formula recipes that work for anyone.

Our Unique Value Proposition

With our rigorous scientific research and expert knowledge of foods that help ease stress and anxiety, we provide herbs and food recommendations along with educational materials for users to enhance their agency and food-as-medicine literacy. We work with community partners to increase their impact and

bring about system change by adding credibility and health outcomes to their offerings. We do so by analyzing scientific research and clinical evidence, gathering new evidence through data science and citizen science and working with a panel of herbal science experts.

We are looking for an aspiring Instructional Designer to design and develop learning and practicing experiences. Are you passionate about learning new skills and teaching others? Then this role is for you.

Essential Tasks:

• Designs and develops learning programs in accordance to CrowdDoing's Service Learning model.
• The Junior Instructional Designer will work in consultation with the Learning and Development Lead or Senior Instructional Designers to initiate, develop, implement and evaluate CrowdDoing’s learning initiatives.
• Assess training needs through surveys, interviews with volunteers, focus groups, or consultation with Learning and Development lead or Sr. Instructional Designers.
• Design, plan, organize, or direct orientation and training programs for volunteers.
• Obtain, organize, or develop training procedure manuals, guides, or course materials, such as handouts or visual materials.
• Partners and collaborates with other departments to pilot or implement initiatives that require learning professional support.

Skills & Competencies:

• Sincere commitment to work collaborating with all constituent groups, volunteers, donors, program participants, and other supporters.
• Receptive to feedback and is able to work upon areas of opportunity for improvement.
• Actively looks for ways to learn and improve output.
• Comfortable working in a startup phase non-profit organization.

Skills:

Learning Strategies , Instructing, Active Listening,Coordination,Critical Thinking , Judgment and Decision Making, Monitoring Social Perceptiveness, Writing, Persuasion Time Management , Complex Problem Solving, Service Orientation, Systems Analysis, Systems Evaluation, Operations Analysis and Negotiation.

Working knowledge of LMS, e-learning content authoring tools, Microsoft office and google suite.

The only way CrowdDoing.world can realize its impact potential is through virtual volunteers,service learners(http://blog.reframeit.com/service-learning-and-skilled-volunteering/), and micro-leaders (https://real-leaders.com/leveraging-micro-leadership-to-make-aspirational-goals-achievable/) coming together.Micro-leadership at CrowdDoing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdB2YJ8Ocs&app=desktop). Micro-leadership means that each person adopts a dimension of responsibility for a collective problem in our society through collaborating on that area creatively individually and together through social innovation.

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For questions and correspondence regarding codesigning a perfect volunteer role for yourself in the CrowdDoing systems change venture lab please email: "Journey.ikigai@crowddoing.world"

Watch our video to learn more: Systemic change by CrowdDoing