Discover Your Core Purpose

Hildegard

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Discover Your Core Purpose

About This Course

This course is a guided pathway to naming the throughline of your leadership. Across ten formational steps, you'll uncover your Genius, name what moves your Spirit, and recognize what the world needs from you — then bring those threads together into a single, resonant Core Purpose statement. This isn't a branding exercise. It's a mirror, a compass, and an invitation to lead from alignment instead of exhaustion, from calling instead of comparison. By the end, you'll walk away with language you can stand on — in seasons of clarity and in seasons of crisis.

Course Components

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📋 28 Lessons
📚 1 Resources
✍️ 1 Quizzes
📖 1 Assignments

How to Engage with this course

This course is designed to be worked through, not just watched. Each step pairs a short video with a workbook exercise — the video gives you the concept, the workbook gives you the space to wrestle with it. To get the full formational value, plan to:

  • Watch the videos. Each one walks you through a step in the Core Purpose Framework and sets up the exercise that follows.
  • Do the workbook assignments. This is where the real work happens. Don't skip ahead — the exercises build on each other, and your later statements will only be as strong as the reflection you put into the earlier ones.
  • Share in the forum. Purpose isn't meant to be discovered alone. Post your drafts, reflect on what's surfacing, and let others speak into what they hear. Naming your Core Purpose out loud — and in community — is part of what makes it real.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Articulate your Zone of Genius using the pattern-recognition tools of story scan and gut check
  • Identify what moves your Spirit and distinguish it from mere excitement or preference
  • Name a specific, particular Need in the world rather than a vague ideal
  • Define your Core Unit of Value — the tangible, repeatable contribution your leadership produces
  • Locate your Calling at the intersection of your Genius and Spirit
  • Recognize your Witness — the lived experience that gives you authority to speak into a need
  • Claim your Responsibility at the intersection of Need and Value
  • Inventory your Provision, both financial and relational, and align it to your work
  • Draft, test, and refine a Core Purpose statement using the course's guiding criteria
  • Apply your Core Purpose as a filter for future decisions in your life, study, and leadership
Instructor Your Instructor

Jeffrey L. Tanner

Chair of Entrepreneurial Thought at Hildegard College.

He is a founder, leader, and teacher in multiple organizations.

“We’re trained from birth that learning is evidenced by regurgitation of information, but co-creation is actually our birthright. My goal as a leader and teacher is to reinstate curiosity, guiding people into co-creating solutions to challenging problems, all with a focus for the common good.”

He created The Formation Method, a coaching pedagogy for leader development, and FLDWRK, a social good incubator and work collective in Orange County. Tanner also serves as VP of Strategy for Standing Stone Ministry and as an Elder at Redemption Church.

He is the author of Best Workday Ever: A Guide to Meaningful Productivity. Read more of his work at jltanner.com

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