Unit 1: Mountain Tops and Valleys

Restoring Integrity Program

What is a Personal Foundation?

The simplest way to describe personal foundation is in engineering terms. In structural engineering, integrity refers to the infrastructure of a building. The goal is to design and construct a building that is capable of resisting the forces that come against it.

Like a skyscraper built on a strong foundation, integrity in humans refers to being whole and complete. In the same way that a building constructed properly can weather any storm, your personal foundation is designed to serve the same purpose. It is your unique infrastructure that supports you living a life of greater clarity, strength, and confidence – one that is whole and complete.

Unfortunately, we live in a world where integrity has been compromised emotionally, physically and mentally, thus weakening our personal foundation.

This program looks at three key components that will help you strengthen your personal foundation:

Mountain Tops and Valleys
Recognizing Your Personal Needs
Identifying Your Core Values

The purpose of this program is to help you:

Identify the things from your past that have had an impact on your life
Discover your personal needs that trigger negative emotional responses
Identify your core values so you can experience greater clarity and peace of mind

Once you recognize the obstacles from your past and identify your personal needs and core values, you will have a greater understanding of how these factors work to either hinder you from moving forward or enable you to be successful.

The Mountain Tops and Valleys section has no time limit on it. It is designed to give you a bird’s eye view of your life and to help you identify the events that have made a profound impact on your life. The goal is for you to see the gifts in all of your life situations; those that you deemed negative and those that you felt positively about. Finding the gifts in each situation will help strengthen your integrity.

The Needs and Values Section will take you approximately 20-30 minutes to complete. Try not to overanalyze each question but go with your first thoughts since they usually are the most accurate.

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Integrity Profile

Having a mountain top view of your life allows you to see the positive and negative emotional shifts you had as a result of your life events. Note that it is the responses that shape your thoughts and character, not the actual event. This exercise is a powerful tool to create self-awareness so that you can choose positive directions in your life.

Challenges not only make us more resilient, they also have the potential to mold us into people who in turn can strengthen and inspire others-if we so choose. Write the gifts or blessings that came out of the events that you recorded as negative. Note also the feelings or emotions that were a result of your positive experiences.

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Emotional responses*

Summary Questions

1. What do you see as a common denominator in your responses?*

2. How did these experiences better prepare you for your life today?*

3. What new wisdom, opportunities or growth came as a result of the experiences?*

4. What did the emotions you felt from your positive experiences give you?*

5. What toxic thinking or limiting beliefs are you now more aware of?*

6. How can you rewrite your life story from here on out as a result of the past?*