Read the book   Weiten, W., Hammer, E., & Dunn, D. (2014). Adjust. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.  Chapter 1，2，6，3，7，9&10 Self-Authorship Paper: (50 points) One part of  Personal Growth is to reflect on your

Self-Authorship

What have you learned about yourself?

• What new information or perspective have you gained about who you are through this course?

• We have explored:

  • Awareness

  • Personality

  • Childhood

  • Relationships

  • Work

  • Stress

  • Gender

  • Loss

  • Mental Health

Getting Out of Yourself

• We discussed how our beliefs shape our narratives

  • The stories we tell about ourselves

• Each of you challenged a limitation that you set for yourself

  • Through these challenges we learn what we are truly capable of

  • We develop the ability to edit our stories

    • This means if I find that I have a belief or limitation that doesn’t serve me, I can challenge it and create a new belief about myself

• What happens when we have limitations that go un-challenged?

Beliefs

• Take a moment to think of three things you believe about yourself

  • Where do these beliefs come from?

    • Did you learn them from someone else or did you develop them yourselves?

  • Have you ever challenged or revised these beliefs?

    • If we update our resume, why don’t we update our beliefs about ourselves?

      • Are you holding on to outdated beliefs about yourself?

• What new beliefs have you developed about yourself throughout this semester?

  • I believe I have a lot of valuable information to share with my students

Writing Your Life

• College is a transitional period where beliefs, resiliency, and adaptation are challenged

  • Emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2006)

    • Identity exploration and opportunities for life transformation

  • College is actually much more than just determining a major

    • According to Parks (2000) college age adults shift meaning making toward “(1) becoming critically aware of one's own composing of reality, (2) self-consciously participating in an ongoing dialogue toward truth, and (3) cultivating a capacity to respond—to act—in ways that are satisfying and just” 

• Self-authorship is about becoming an active participant in the writing process of your life

  • This also means, the time to blame your parents (or anyone else) for the content of your story has passed

Self-Authorship

• Self-authorship is the internal capacity to construct one’s own beliefs, identity, and relationships

  • Critical to navigating adult life and all of its unique challenges

• The skills you learned in this class will serve to support you becoming an active author in your life

• Three main components:

  • Trusting your internal voice

  • Building an internal foundation

  • Securing internal commitments

Self-Authorship Paper

• 3-4 page paper; typed, double spaced, times new roman, font size 12 with 1 inch margins surrounding each page and follow APA style

• You should have a minimum of 3 references that are cited throughout the paper, and included in an APA style reference list at the end of the paper

For information about APA style

Journey towards Self-Authorship

Pair up and discuss

Which phase are you in?

How do you know?

What’s keeping you in that stage?

What’s supporting you moving forward?

What’s restricting you from moving forward?

Is it a linear process?

Hint: Take notes during this discussion and use this in your paper

APA Style

• No Abstract needed

• Title page

• Running Head

• Page Numbers

• In text Citations

• Reference page

  • References must be scholarly (the PowerPoint from class is not a reference, however, the research noted in the lecture is a scholarly reference)

• Use the University library research page to find scholarly references