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.
Learning Outcomes
Through engaging in this exercise, you will be able to:
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Develop a personalized understanding of purpose in the context of your life
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Identify spaces and opportunities to lean into your purpose
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Consider strategies for ongoing self-exploration and questioning that may help to center your purpose
4D Dimensions: Intellectual Growth, Well-being, Character, Careers and Lives of Purpose
Audience: Undergraduate & Graduate Students, Staff, Faculty
Resource Type: Self-guided Exercise, Class Lesson, Community Workshop
Supplies: A variety of gift-wrapping supplies (e.g., wrapping paper, gift box, bows, gift tags, tissue paper, variety of sizes of gift bags)
Time: 1.5 - 2 hours
Activity Information
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Instructions
See the full description of the lesson in the Appendix A handout. The lesson includes the following parts:
- Introduction
- Self as a Purposeful Gift Exercise
- Small Group Sharing of Purposeful Gift
- Reflection on Key Exercise Take-aways
- Closing
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Author(s)
Erin K. Willer, Ph.D.
Director of Faculty Innovation, 4D Experience
Professor, Communication Studies
University of Denver