4D Resource Library

The 4D Resource Library features tools designed to enhance student, staff, and faculty engagement with the 4D Experience. These resources include self- and facilitator/instructor-guided activities, course assignments and projects, exercises and creative opportunities for reflection that uplift the four dimensions of intellectual growth, careers and lives of purpose, character, and well-being.

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Body Mapping for Difficult Life Experiences

The purpose of this body mapping activity is to allow you to creatively reflect on a difficult experience you have had or are going through currently.

4D Dimensions: Intellectual Growth, Well-being, Character

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Small Deed Big ImpACT of Compassion Project

The purpose of this assignment is for students to apply their learning related to empathy and compassion, practice research methods, and allow them to practice empathizing with someone who is suffering or struggling with a difficult life experience.

4D Dimensions: Intellectual Growth, Well-being, Character 

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Make Your Job Your Calling

The purpose of this exercise is to allow you to reflect on approaching work as a “calling” and how you can derive meaning and purpose from your upcoming career and/or your current job.

4D Dimensions: Intellectual Growth, Well-being, Character, Careers and Lives of Purpose

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Well-being Goalkeeper

The purpose of Well-being Goalkeeper assignment is to provide students with an opportunity to assess their well-being, set goals, and create a reflective tool to support them in working toward greater thriving.

4D Dimensions: Intellectual Growth, Well-being, Character

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Self as a Gift

The goal of this lesson is to allow you to reflect on your gifts, talents, and callings as a way of tapping into your meaning and purpose.

4D Dimensions: Intellectual Growth, Well-being, Character, Careers and Lives of Purpose

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College Takes Courage

The goal of this lesson is to allow you to put research on courage into practice as you face college-related challenges, such as choosing/changing your major/minor, applying for a job, starting/ending a relationship, joining a community, having a difficult conversation, or putting an idea into the world.

4D Dimensions: Intellectual Growth, Well-being, Character, Careers and Lives of Purpose

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