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lifeStories

lifeStories. life Stories A life Story is a big-deal experience that reveals , changes or affirms your understanding of you, your connections to the world around you and…LIFE!.

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lifeStories

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  1. lifeStories

  2. lifeStoriesA lifeStory is a big-deal experience that reveals, changes or affirms your understanding of you,your connections to the world around you and…LIFE!

  3. lifeStoriesA lifeStory is a big-deal experience that reveals, changes or affirms your understanding of you,your connections to the world around you and…LIFE! Title at least 5 of your lifeStories and place them on your timeline.

  4. 1. Get together with a partner.2. One person tells a lifeStory.3. The listener…listens.4. Trade roles.

  5. What is the most common plot shape/form embodied in our stories? • Discerning Talent and Skill

  6. What is appealing about this conflict-resolution plot form?

  7. Stories come in other shapes…

  8. Conflict/ResolutionDissonance/Transformation • conflict caused by opposing forces • the outcome of winning is emphasized • fixed mindset • What’s the problem? • dissonance caused by contradictory perceptions • the process of personal growth is emphasized • growth mindset • What development is occurring? Inspired by Carol Dweck’s book Mindset

  9. Reflect with your partner: What kind of story did you tell? • Discerning Talent and Skill

  10. Conflict/ResolutionDissonance/Transformation • conflict caused by opposing forces • the outcome of winning is emphasized • fixed mindset • What’s the problem? • dissonance caused by contradictory perceptions • the process of personal growth is emphasized • growth mindset • What development is occurring? Inspired by Carol Dweck’s book Mindset

  11. But what does thishave to do with vocation?

  12. Wait a second—what is vocation?

  13. “Something’s one’s vocation if it keeps making more of you.” Gail Godwin

  14. “Something’s one’s vocation if it keeps making more of you.” Gail Godwin What do you make of Godwin’s quote?

  15. Conflict/ResolutionDissonance/Transformation • conflict caused by opposing forces • the outcome of winning is emphasized • fixed mindset • What’s the problem? • dissonance caused by contradictory perceptions • the process of personal growth is emphasized • growth mindset • What development is occurring? What does this have to do with vocation?

  16. “Something’s one’s vocation if it keeps making more of you.” Gail Godwin In the story that you told… was “more” made of you? In what way?

  17. “Something’s one’s vocation if it keeps making more of you.” Gail Godwin

  18. Vocation

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