The document provides information about a craft session at the WITConf22 conference where participants can make Salesforce character cards. It includes instructions for making 6 different character card options and sharing photos on social media. Additional sections discuss the mental health benefits of crafting such as reducing stress and anxiety, and how crafting can benefit work through improving focus, problem-solving skills, and teamwork. Suggestions are also provided for crafts that express gratitude or can be made to donate to hospitals, military, and senior centers.

1. Create your favourite
Salesforce character with
#craftforce
#WITConf22

3. Speakers
Lynda Kane
@labboopanda
Lauren Dunne Bolopue
@LaurenDunne__c

4. Session Overview
● Salesforce Character Card Making
● Crafting & Mental Health
● Crafting’s Benefits for Work
● Expressing Gratitude & Giving Back through Crafting
● Resources
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5. Crafting #WITConf22

6. Salesforce Character Card Making
● 6 different options (Arcade Astro, Meditation Astro, Cloudy, Ruth,
Bearista Codey, Hootie)
● Baggie contains card and pre-traced pieces
● Share scissors & glue sticks
● Extra paper & markers
● Scraps bags (purple)
Supplies
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7. Salesforce Character Card Making
● Cut all your pieces (put in bag so you don’t lose them)
● Color background (if desired)
● Arrange pieces before glueing - special attention to over/under
● Final touches
● Be creative - make it your own - HAVE FUN!
Instructions
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8. Salesforce Character Card Making
● Sign/logo card back
● Photo - share on Social media #WITConf22 & #craftforce
● Close glue stick!
● Cap the markers
● Scraps in purple bag
● Envelopes available (until they run out)
When you finish
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9. Crafting & Mental Health
When we are involved in
[creativity], we feel that we are
living more fully than during the
rest of life. You know that what
you need to do is possible to do,
even though difficult, and sense of
time disappears. You forget
yourself. You feel part of
something larger.
2004 TED Talk Quote from Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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10. Crafting & Mental Health
● https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/25/health/brain-crafting-benefits/index.html
• Helps those suffering from anxiety, depression, or chronic pain
• Eases stress, Increases happiness
• Protect brain from damage from aging
● https://www.mindfood.com/article/the-benefits-of-arts-and-crafts/
• Relieves stress
• Improves confidence
• Improves quality of life and lessens health condition effects
● https://www.newsweek.com/amplify/arts-crafts-adults-its-benefits-
why-you-should-doing-it
• Improves your fine motor skills -> pain reduction
• Increases communication
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11. Crafting’s Benefits for Work
● Promotes focus & concentration
● Increase critical thinking skills &
problem solving
● Prepares the brain for learning
● More open to alternatives
● Learn to find acceptance and
beauty (learning) in the mistakes
● Easier to break large projects
into possible tasks
● Increases teamwork
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12. Expressing Gratitude through Crafting
● Cards
● Gratitude Tree
● Ceramics (painted mugs, plates, etc.)
● Stitchery (scarves, socks, wall hangings)
● Flower Arranging (Silk or real)
● Baked Goods (food as crafting)
● Others…
Crafts that Say “Thank You”
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13. Giving Back through Crafting
● Cards for Hospitalized Kids
(http://www.cardsforhospitalizedkids.com/make-cards.html)
● Operation We Are Here
(https://www.operationwearehere.com/ideasforsoldierscardsletters.
html)
● Cards for Seniors (https://www.giftsforseniors.org/cards-for-seniors)
● Seek out local places too!
Hospitals, Military, Senior Centers
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14. Want to make Moar?
Template booklet:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P
61FxkEqePbsfpnjFUoyq51MGkEYiZYg3u3
UI1xOvf8/edit?usp=sharing
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15. THANK YOU!
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Terri Sinclair & Akron WIT:
Card Making Kit testers
Our spouses:
Understanding & giving
space & time for crafting
YOU:
Crafting with us today!
#OhanaCoffee attendees:
Encouraging our crafting
addiction
WITness Success:
Providing the opportunity
to craft as a community

16. Want to make Moar?
Template booklet:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P
61FxkEqePbsfpnjFUoyq51MGkEYiZYg3u3
UI1xOvf8/edit?usp=sharing
#WITConf22

17. We’re Speaking at
WITness
Success!
2022
Join Us, July 22-23, 2022
Minneapolis, MN
WITnessSuccess.com | #WITConf22
@labboopanda &
@LaurenDunne__c
“Create your favourite Salesforce
character with #craftforce”