STORYPATHING
STORYPATHING
WHAT’S THE STORY?
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WHAT I DO
WHAT I DO
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What StoryPathing Is
StoryPathing is a sustained reflective exercise that involves identifying formative experiences in your life and organizing them into thematic categories. Through a careful selection process, you pinpoint the most impactful experiences. By examining common threads among these moments, you gain insights into your core values and strengths. This analysis helps you understand how these experiences have influenced your current situation and allows you to envision possible future paths. It’s a tool for self-discovery, guiding personal growth, and making informed choices.
What StoryPathing Does
StoryPathing can help individuals who want to gain a deeper understanding of their life experiences and how those experiences have shaped their personal growth and direction. Whether you’re at a crossroads, exploring new opportunities, or simply looking to reflect on your journey, StoryPathing can inform decisions and objectives, and enlist allies and mentors along the way by teaching you to communicate a narrative about yourself that is clear, self-aware, and authentic. In the process, you relate more effectively to your audience, and your audience relates more effectively to you.
StoryPathing’s Usefulness
Engaging in StoryPathing offers a method of discerning who you really are, a lens by which to examine the course of your life, and the means for you to construct an effective self-presentation. By analyzing significant life experiences, you uncover a constellation of meaning that you probably weren’t aware existed. Once you realize these patterns, you are empowered you with an undeniable confidence, apparent to you and obvious to others, to present your genuine self. In other words, StoryPathing is a way to understand your past, enrich your present, and shape an intentional future.
John W. Burke
John W. Burke is an accomplished Classics scholar and teacher with a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Wisconsin—Madison and a B.A. (honors) from the University of Cincinnati. His teaching career includes positions in Italy and various U.S. schools at the postsecondary and secondary levels, where he taught Latin, Greek, English as a Second Language, and Religious Studies. He also coached swimming, soccer, and water polo, and received distinguished honors for superb teaching. Apart from his professional achievements, he volunteers at a local church, working at a food bank, as a member of an outreach team, and an usher. He currently works with his wife and son at a small family business, founded by his father- and brother-in-law.