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Purpose Workshops for Students

See our offering of purpose-based workshops for students below. Some sessions may have limited dates, but if you'd like to schedule a free workshop with your student organization or team, please reach out to purpose@mail.wvu.edu

Featured Workshops

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Life Mapping for Students

Students 60 minutes

Draw connections between what seem to be random events or interests in your life to a purpose, then apply those insights as well as your top five CliftonStrengths® to create a personal statement for networking, mentorship and during interviews.

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Week of Purpose: Purpose-Focused Yoga

Students 60 minutes

Wind down Week of Purpose with a free, relaxing, purpose-focused yoga session in the heart of the downtown campus! Certified Yoga Instructor and Gallup-Certified CliftonStrengths Coach, Julie Gruber, will lead this session in Woodburn Circle while also using purpose-based guided meditations to help you envision the impact you want to make on the world. The WVU Rec Center has yoga mats that can be provided, if needed.

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Deep Kindness

Students 60 minutes

This workshop encourages participants to leverage common kindness to grow resilience, build on their emotional intelligence skillset and practice deep kindness both to themselves and others. We will explore not only how to practice deep kindness, but how to accept deep kindness from others and how to navigate when our deep kindness is rejected. In addition to helping build essential skills, this workshop looks at wellbeing through the lens of selfless gratitude and encouragement.

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Creating Glimmers: How Full Is Your Bucket

Students 60 minutes

Discover how to create glimmers—tiny moments of goodness and joy for yourself and others—and learn how these glimmers in combination with Don Clifton’s theory of “Bucket Filling” can positively impact your productivity, health, and longevity.

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Exploring Resilience: Building Self-Efficacy

Students 60 minutes

Explore the concept of resilience by evaluating your current level of resilience, exploring your thinking style, and building self-efficacy strategies.

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Identifying Your Values For Students

Students 60 minutes

Identify your core values, define what they mean to you, and think about how you can live those values in your everyday life to start working toward your purpose.

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Leveraging Failure: Leading Yourself Through Challenges

Students 60 minutes

Establish your perspective on success and failure, and explore four ways resilient people navigate challenges and create strategies for working them into their daily lives.

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Power of Positive Thinking

Students 60 minutes

Identify negative thinking, explore the health and wellbeing benefits of positive thinking, and reframe negative self-talk into positive thoughts and behaviors to increase wellbeing and success.

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Purpose Vision Board Workshop

Students 60 minutes

Create a purpose vision board as a visual representation of your goals, dreams, purpose and values to help you reinforce daily the things that you value, and help you maintain focus on your goals.

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Self-Leadership Strategies

Students 60 minutes

Understand how to reduce negative cues, increase positive cues and be more mindful of the ways you can increase confidence and holistic success.

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Ben Heinlein

Cranberry Township International Studies Student

Top 5 Strengths

Connectedness®, Belief®, Developer®, Learner®, Positivity®

Purpose, for me, is what drives you. It is what gets you up in the morning when you want to sleep in. Purpose is the reason why I push myself so hard to do what is right for my family, friends, and community. I think that finding your purpose in life is so important. It can open so many new doors and opportunities that may not have been seen before, and lead to a more satisfying life.