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LEARNING FROM YOUR LIFE
What can you learn from your life?
What lessons are right there in front of you?
What will you teach yourself about yourself?
1. Write the titles (prompt 8) on post-it notes or
cards for your mirror, fridge, computer – wherever you’ll see
them often.
2. Look over each event.
Are they about relationships, education, work, health?
Are they from different times in your life?
3. Observe patterns, similarities and differences
across events.
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Coping
strategies (prompt 4)
Support and resources available to you?
Other things you could have done?
Were your coping strategies effective in managing stress?
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Key to Movement
(prompt 5)
What helped you move forward?
How did you decide what to do or not do?
How realistic were you in predicting the consequences of your
decisions?
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Roadblocks to
Resolution (prompt 6)
What got in your way?
Held you back?
Were there trade-offs? Compromises?
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Meaning (prompt
7)
What did you learn from this event?
How are you different because of it?
What strengths does this event reveal? How can you use those
strengths in your life now?
4. Summing Up:
Reflect on your experience with the Who-am-I-now
Review.
Would you change any event titles ?
What lessons has your life taught you?
What lessons await your embrace?
Which stories do you want to share?
5. Options: Represent your Who-am-I-now events
through drawing, painting, collage, dance, drama, blog or
video and other
forms of expression. Writing it down, reading it out loud,
drawing a representation, dancing through it, all spark new
meanings.
With each life stage, perspective changes. Some memories fade. Others
zoom forward.
Your stories are written neither in stone nor sand.
Your stories are waiting to be told. It's your choice of when,
where, how and with whom to share your stories.
Go to Best Loved Stories for books about different
women’s lives.
Go to Discussion Guide for using the
Who-am-I-now Review in
families and organizations.
What others said about the Who-am-I-now
Review:
“Helped me focus. Put
together patterns I had not seen before.”
“It changed my opinion of myself for the better, and give me
the courage to make the changes I knew had to be made.”
“I now put me first. Before I came after family, church,
obligations, doing what was right.
“It helped me realize that coping is strongly related to how I
feel about myself at the time.” |
