16-Week GROWTH Journey
Our worst, most overwhelming, and painful experiences can leave us feeling powerless and pessimistic.
These experiences can shake the foundations of our worldviews and personal narratives. We can feel disoriented, unmoored from a way of seeing the world that worked for us before but no longer seems to make sense. At times, distressing thoughts intruede, and we might have difficulty focusing on anything else.
But over time, we begin to regain control over our thoughts and our lives.
We reflect on what happened and what it means for our lives. That's when trauma, loss, and adversity can begin to transform us in profound ways. Posttraumatic growth, the “experience of positive change that occurs as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life crises," may lead us to greater appreciation of life, new possibilities for the future, warmer and more intimate relationships, increased personal strength, and a deeper spiritual life.
We discover strengths we didn’t know we possessed, love more fully, appreciate what really matters, and live with greater purpose, connection, and spiritual awareness.
We find we love what we are becoming even though we grieve for the "before times," and we can flourish even though parts of our life have felt overwhelming or beyond our capacity to cope.
The GROWTH Journey
The Growth- and Resilience-Oriented Wellbeing and Transformational Healing (GROWTH) Journey is a 16-week virtual coaching program applying the science of positive psychology, resilience, and posttraumatic growth to help you grow and thrive amidst trauma, loss, and other life-changing adversity.
Over ten research-based modules, you'll learn about key concepts and engage in individual practices to honor the past, cultivate thriving in the present, and embrace the path ahead.
- Prepare for Your Journey
- Generate Good Feelings and Experiences
- Envision a Good Future
- See the Good in Yourself and Others
- See More Good in the World
- Grow in Wise Responding
- Grow in Connection to Others
- Grow in Gratitude
- Grow in Purpose and Forgiveness
- Crystallize Your New Narrative
What's in Each Module?
Besides the two introductory modules and the final module on Crystallizing Your New Narrative, each module follows the structure below:
Overview
A quick review of key concepts that inform the exercises and reflections in the module.
Learn More
An optional deeper dive into research and available resources for more science or additional practice.
Core Practices
Sixteen weekly practices and reflections build on each other to shape feelings, thoughts, and actions toward growth, purpose, qnd connection.
Extension Practices
Dozens of extension exercises, journal reflections, and tools for deepening understanding and integrating principles.
Community and Connection
Community spaces in each module to comment and reflect, integrate what you've learned, and share your own experiences and insights with a community of fellow travellers.
Who is the GROWTH Journey For?
The GROWTH Journey is for adults who have had a painful or highly distressing life experience like trauma, grief, or betrayal, a major setback or personal failing, or other substantial adversity that feels like a personal turning point.
- You'll benefit from the program ifyou're interested in exploring both painful and positive aspects of your experiences with an eye toward identifying and building your strengths, developing habits of thought and action that support personal thriving, and engaging in good and meaningful ways with the people and world around you.
- Most of the exercises and reflections in the GROWTH Journey have been adapted from activities to support flourishing in a wide range of groupsor use positive psychology concepts that apply to lots of people. But this journey is about examining and integrating the really difficult experiences you've had to live a more meaningful life for yourself and others.
- Not everyone is ready for the GROWTH Journey (and that doesn't mean they won't be at some point in the future). This program is intended for people who are not in need of clinical care or therapy for PTSD or other mental health disorders, or, if they are in need of such care, they are receiving it, and they have informed their clinician of their plan to participate embark on this journey.
