Topic 2.2 | Study Hall: Going Deeper on Identity
Want to go deeper?
This space is for you.The Study Hall is not required to move forward. It is where the real excavation happens for women who want more. Come back to it this week, next week, or whenever you are ready.
Personal Leadership Mission
Time: 8 to 10 minutes | Individual | This goes into your Leadership Deployment Plan.
Open your workbook to the Personal Leadership Mission page. Respond to each of the three prompts honestly and in your own voice. Do not edit yourself as you write.
I lead best when ___.
The values that guide my leadership are ___.
The impact I want to create in the next chapter is ___.This is a first draft. It will grow as you do. Write something true tonight.
Deployment Plan Builder
Transfer your Personal Leadership Mission first draft into the Leadership Deployment Plan under Personal Leadership Mission. Even if the draft feels rough, it goes in. The LDP is a living document.
What you write tonight becomes the foundation you will return to and refine as the program builds.
LDP Entry: Personal Leadership Mission | First Draft
Study Hall Reading
These resources are here if you want to go deeper this week. None of them are required. All of them are worth your time.
| [Beyond The Uniform Blog] She Has Always Been Here This post names what many women veterans cannot find words for. The woman you were before the military did not disappear. She waited. https://beyond-the-uniform.com/blog/she-has-always-been-here |
| [Beyond The Uniform Blog] Invisible Veteran: Women Don’t Claim the Title Why women veterans resist calling themselves veterans and what that resistance costs. This one will land. https://beyond-the-uniform.com/blog/invisible-veteran-women-dont-claim-the-title |
| [Beyond The Uniform Blog] The Real Reason Transition Is Hard It is not about your resume. It is not about your skills. This post names the structural truth that most transition programs miss entirely. https://beyond-the-uniform.com/blog/real-reason-transition-is-hard |
| [Personal Development] Untamed by Glennon Doyle A memoir about reclaiming your identity after years of performing the version of yourself others needed. Resonates deeply with the excavation work of this week. |
Extended Reflection
If the live session stirred something you have not had space to name yet, use these prompts to go deeper.
| Extended Reflection Prompts 1. When you completed the Leadership Timeline, which moment surprised you most? 2. What does that surprise tell you about how you have been seeing yourself? 3. What parts of your military identity have you been carrying as a burden rather than an asset? 4. What would it mean to set the burden down and keep the asset? 5. If you could tell the woman who walked out of service on her last day one thing she needed to hear, what would you say? 6. What is the leadership identity you are stepping into? Not what you hope to become. 7. Who are you becoming, right now, in this program? |
