01.01.BG.T03-LTP — Learning and Transformation Plan: Preparing for My Forgiveness Journey

Purpose

This tool helps you identify what you want to learn and change as you move through the Guide. It converts your starting reflections and baseline assessment into a deliberate learning and transformation plan.

Part A: What I Need to Understand

1. What do you need to understand more clearly about the difference between hurt, anger, bitterness and unforgiveness?

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2. What do you need to learn about recognising unforgiveness when it is camouflaged or denied?

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3. What do you need to understand about the personal costs of holding on to offences?

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4. What do you need to learn about preventing bitterness before it takes root?

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5. What do you need to understand about forgiving a person who may never apologise or change?

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Part B: What I Need to Examine in Myself

6. Which past or present offence may require you to examine your response more honestly as you read?

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7. Which of your emotional reactions when offended would you particularly like to understand?

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8. Which relationships may benefit if you become more able to forgive?

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9. Which behaviours of your own may make it difficult for other people to forgive you?

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Part C: My Transformation Goals

10. What change would you like to see in the way you think about offenders?

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11. What change would you like to see in the way you manage anger, resentment or painful memories?

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12. What change would you like to see in the way you apologise and respond when you are the offender?

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13. What would emotional freedom from a past offence look like in your daily life?

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Part D: How I Will Engage with the Guide

14. What will you do when a story or question in the Guide makes you uncomfortable because it resembles your own experience?

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15. How will you capture important insights or decisions as you read?

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16. Who, if anyone, can encourage you or hold you accountable as you work towards becoming more forgiving?

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17. Write one personal commitment that you want to carry with you throughout this Guide.

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