Thriving On Purpose Through Wellness Principles - by Laura Garrison-Brook

COURSE

Thriving On Purpose Through Wellness Principles

With Laura Garrison-Brook

This is a 10-day course focused on helping you discover the truest, most authentic version of yourself. Step by step and layer by layer, we will work through a proven process that will bring you closer to your authentic self and your purpose. Our time together will include a variety of exercises, activities and meditations that will help you understand yourself in a new way. By learning more about your strengths, what you love to do and the ways that you can bring this into the world, we will synthesize these three things to help you find your true purpose that already lives inside of you. In the immortal words of Snoopy, “Happiness is writing your own story.” This course invites you to craft an amazing life.


Meet your Teacher

Laura Garrison-Brook is the founder of Discovering My Purpose, a charitable organization focused on helping youth live happier, more meaningful lives. Their signature program is powered by positive psychology and the findings of thought leaders from Harvard, Yale, Penn, Stanford and beyond. This 10-day Insight Timer course is an excerpt of their signature program.

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10 Days

5.0k students

4.8 stars

16 min / day

Authenticity

English


Lesson 1

Purpose Defined – Its Benefits & Biggest Obstacle

This lesson outlines what purpose is and all of the many benefits that a purposeful life includes. Author Po Bronson interviewed hundreds of people searching for their purpose and found one key barrier. We will explain this obstacle and give you the tools to address it right here in Lesson One. This will give you a big jumpstart right from the beginning.

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Lesson 2

Where Purpose Lives & Kicking Negative Self-Talk To The Curb

In Lesson 2, we talk about where to find purpose and how to overcome barriers that can trip us up. Here are the three things that we look for when exploring our path to purpose. We need to look for what we are good at, what we love to do and what the world needs. As we go through this course, we are going to be planting a lot of seeds that we want to have grow. For them to really flourish, let’s make sure that they have fertile ground. Part of that preparation is pulling up weeds and the very worst weeds – it’s like the crab grass of life – is negative self-talk. In Lesson 2, we will walk through the biggest self-limiting thoughts around purpose and give you the tools to address them.

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Lesson 3

Top Strengths, Negativity Bias & The Mindful Pause

Understanding our strengths is foundational to discovering our purpose. In this lesson, we will come to understand how our brains are naturally wired to focus on our weaknesses and where to go to get a scientifically validated assessment of our strengths. We will then explore what these strengths mean and how to leverage them during important or challenging situations.

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Lesson 4

Building Confidence To Live More Meaningfully

This course is all about helping you embrace a more meaningful way of living by connecting more deeply to what matters most to you. And the likelihood is, the changes you embrace will push you out of your comfort zone. In this lesson, we will talk about a concept called self-perception theory, which will help us increase our confidence, leaving us better positioned to step into our new reality.

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Lesson 5

Learning From Your Positive Past To Enrich Your Future

In this lesson, we connect with times we have thrived in our lives and dig into how we can bring more of these experiences into our future. We will explore times in our past when we were thriving, learn about ways to create fertile ground for the state of flow, and understand something called appreciative inquiry.

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Lesson 6

Dreaming Big & The Right Way To Use Visualization

Get ready to dream big. This lesson will encourage you to believe in your ability to live a magnificent life, perfectly suited to you. To do this, we will imagine our Fantastic Future and better understand the incredible power of visualization, so that you can learn what approaches work and what visualization tactics aren't helpful.

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Lesson 7

How Purpose Doesn't Have To Be Heroic To Still Be Noble

This lesson talks about how purpose doesn’t need to be heroic in order to be powerful. Stanford Professor Bill Damon, one of the top thought leaders on purpose, says “Noble purposes may be found in the day-to-day fabric of ordinary existence.” However you would like to positively impact the world, this is your invitation to envision how this desire to make a difference might inspire your purpose.

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Lesson 8

Defining Your Authentic Version Of Success

This lesson talks about the foundational components of happiness. We will work on defining our authentic versions of success, and use all of the knowledge we have built up so far to start to fill out the three critical areas that will inform what our purpose might be.

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Lesson 9

Finding Your Purpose & Making It Happen

We have the foundation for a deeper understanding of our purpose in place. Now it is time to put the pieces together. First, we brainstorm on what our purpose is and see if there is one that feels more resonant and true to our heart and soul. Next, we start building out our Authentic Action Roadmap. This is how we will make our purpose live and breathe in our lives.

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Lesson 10

Embracing Change In Your Life

In this last amazing lesson, we finish crafting our Authentic Action Roadmap, understand how incremental effort moves us steadily towards the life of dreams, and learn about the things that will keep us fueled up and moving forward in the new incredible lives we want to live.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 73 community questions and 59 audio replies from Laura Garrison-Brook. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Brenda

November 20, 2024

This was a very inspiring and practical course on discovering one's purpose in life. Thank you! Blessings❤️🙏

Adele

August 31, 2024

Thank you so much, Laura, for your generous amd wise advice - this course has helped and surprised me in lots of wonderful ways. I have especially benefitted from understanding my character strengths and your suggestions to try to tackle one goal at a time and take small achievable steps in the right direction…. Thanks again 🙏🙏❤️

Margaret

August 8, 2024

A wonderfully helpful guide to finding oneself and getting things done.

Ivo

February 20, 2024

This is an outstanding one! Thank you very much for this course. It brought me duz much clarity about my purpose and the next steps. Thank you very much!

Holly

September 8, 2023

Love the structure of this course.

Karen

July 3, 2023

Excellent information and tools on listening to one’s soul about finding and achieving individual purpose. I’ve now down all the exercises and start my actions tomorrow.

Karenmk

June 22, 2023

Thank you for your inspiration !💕🙏

Colin

June 10, 2023

Awesome course! Thank You!

Siel

April 12, 2023

Great step by step course how to get closer to (or find) your purpose. Thank you for sharing!

Ange

April 11, 2023

Really helpful and would recommend.

Hank

March 29, 2023

A very helpful step by step guide to finding and executing one’s purpose. Also well organize, presented and produced.

Emily

March 2, 2023

Great course that helped me gain a lot of clarity. I feel ready and motivated✨❤️ thank you!

Kirsty

February 10, 2023

Oh my goodness, thank you so much Laura! This incredible course has really helped me see what the next steps in my journey are.

Carrie

September 19, 2022

Very positive and supportive.

Vimarie

August 27, 2022

This course is a must for anyone searching for their purpose!

Kathryn

August 2, 2022

Excellent! Laura is so clear ( and real) - I looked forward to this everyday. This course has given me extra ideas to keep going living my purpose. Thank you !! 💕

Wen

June 8, 2022

Laura's teaching is transforming. I love the topic, timing and assignments of the course. Thank you Laura for your down-to-earth practical and well, er, authentic teaching! Yiu rock as a teacher-guide along this career path for me! Thank you!

Fee

February 21, 2022

A wonderful course so relevant to 2022 with all its changes.

Lisa

February 20, 2022

This course has helped me so much have got some great ideas from doing this & will be using them in my life Thankyou so much Laura 💜

Laurie

January 30, 2022

Thank you!

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