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Embracing Change: Transforming Your Life into Young Adulthood

Senior year marks a pivotal transition from adolescence to young adulthood, presenting both dangers and opportunities. Like a lobster shedding its shell, personal growth requires vulnerability but leads to fulfillment. This chapter emphasizes the importance of living in the present and recognizing that our life consists of numerous present moments. It also explores key developmental tasks, identity formation, autonomy, and the personal power we all possess. Understand how to navigate this transitional phase meaningfully and build a life of purpose and connection.

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Embracing Change: Transforming Your Life into Young Adulthood

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  1. Chapter 1 Changes Ahead: Your Life Takes New Directions

  2. Concept A: New Horizons • Senior year in high school marks the beginning of the transition from adolescence to young adulthood.

  3. Transition: This transition presents both dangers and opportunities DANGERS OPPORTUNITIES

  4. We are like Crustaceans • We are not unlike a hardy crustacean. The lobster grows by developing and shedding a series of hard, protective shells. Each time it expands from within, the confining must be sloughed off. It is left exposed and vulnerable until, in time, a new covering grows to replace the old? • What habits, hang-ups, or mannerisms make up your “confining shell”?

  5. Opportunities • By focusing on the opportunities, we can see that through growth we become fully alive

  6. The Gift of the Present Moment • Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn “your life is the sum of your present moments, so if you’re missing lots of them, you may actually miss much of your [life].”

  7. Wait until…thinking • Wait until I have a boyfriend or girlfriend then I’ll be happy • Wait until I have my degree, then… • Wait until I find the right job, then I’ll really live • Remember… the present is a gift – that’s why they call it the present!

  8. Jesus’ Desire For Us • He shows us the way through his life’s example of LOVING GOD and

  9. Loving Our Neighbor

  10. Growth • Growth toward fullness of life does not happen overnight.

  11. Growth • Is a life long process that occurs in stages: • Infancy • Early childhood • Play age • School age • Adolescence • Young adulthood • Adulthood • Mature adulthood

  12. The Passage to Young Adulthood • During the present transition in your life, you will be challenged to take on developmental tasks in about eleven areas. • Developing a sense of identity • Growing in autonomy • Renewing oneself by learning and creating • Gaining competencies • Selecting a career and taking on an adult job • Constructing and living out a value system • Integrating sexuality into one’s life • Making friends and living with intimacy • Making loving commitments • Reflecting on religion • Taking part in the larger community

  13. Concept B: Identity • Answering the Christian call to fullness of life means gaining a strong sense of identity

  14. Identity • Our understanding of who we are

  15. Identity • Is based on experience and grows through knowledge of ourselves

  16. Identity grows based on… • Our feelings and wants • What people tell us • Our talents • Aspects of ourselves that we can and cannot control

  17. Self - esteem • An accurate sense of identity forms the basis of our self - esteem

  18. Self – esteem is • Our love and appreciation for our unique work

  19. Concept C: Autonomy • Autonomy – with a strong sense of identity, we can become autonomous – able to direct our own life and actions

  20. Autonomy • Autonomous persons recognize their need for others and others’ need for them

  21. Autonomous Persons • Are interdependent rather than independent

  22. False Autonomy • Behaviors that offer the illusion of independence

  23. False Autonomy • “Groupthink” – gangs or cults / taking on the practices and views of a different group of people

  24. False Autonomy • “Jailbreak” – pregnancy or marriage. Young people may see this as a means of escape but in reality they are assuming more responsibility.

  25. Independence • People that think of themselves as totally independent do not see themselves as connected to others at all

  26. Autonomy & Interdependence • Gives us the ability to consider the consequences of our actions

  27. Autonomy & Interdependence • Give us a sense of responsibility to ourselves and others (Christian Freedom)

  28. St. Paul • Jewish leader who became Christianity’s apostle to the gentiles • His faith made him strong • His weaknesses made him sympathetic (p.23)

  29. Concept D: Personal Power • Power – The ability to influence our own life and the people and events around us

  30. Power • Comes from having a strong identity and being autonomous

  31. Everyone Needs Power

  32. Pentecost • The Apostles were given power or the strength to spread the word of Christ through the Holy Spirit

  33. Power • Power can be used for either good (positive power) or bad (negative power)

  34. Positive Power • Nurtures others (nurturing power)

  35. Positive Power • Compliments their power (shared power)

  36. Nelson Mandela • Mandela went from being a prisoner to the first freely elected president of South Africa • He used his power, not only to speak out for his own race but to build bridges with the white government

  37. Positive Power • Builds the Reign of God ( St. Peter)

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