Unrepeatable Life Workbook An Eight Week Program for Helping Youth Identify and Fully Live Their Unique Callings

This workbook is designed to accompany the book, Unrepeatable: Cultivating the Unique Calling of Every Person, by Luke Burgis and Joshua Miller, PhD. The primary audience of the book is mentors who have formational responsibility for youth. Burgis and Miller argue, especially on the basis of Saint John Paul II¿s pastoral vision, that the flourishing of human beings and the renewal of civilization depend upon helping each human person realize his/her unique calling. After describing the reality of personal vocation and cultural factors that impede it, the authors show fundamental ways that mentors can cultivate the personal vocations of youth: drawing out achievement stories that reveal unique motivational design, listening with deep empathy, and teaching key steps of discernment. The workbook is full of practical exercises to help youth work through steps of discernment so that they can more fully live their personal vocations now and gain tools for life long effective decision making .The eight sessions of the workbook correspond closely with the book itself. Session One is devoted to orientation. Participants determine an important decision they can make in the course of the program, commit to prayer, and recruit a companion who will help them with various exercises. Session Two is about contemporary cultural factors that impact how we discern and shape the world in which we serve. Session Three helps participants reveal stories of achievement, which hold critical clues to personal vocation. Session Four is about the importance of empathetically listening to one another¿s stories. This sets relational contexts ripe for personal flourishing. Session Five is about unique motivational design revealed by stories. Session Six centers on the multi-layered meaning of personal vocation. Session Seven is about gaining key skills for making good decisions and daily discernment. Session Eight centers on helping youth name their own personal vocations and critical missions for living them out. People can go through the workbook individually or in a group context. When used in a group context, each session is designed to last 60-90 minutes.