Summary Findings for a Spiritual Journey Peer Interview
PEER INTERVIEW SHARING YOUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS
OVERVIEW
Hagberg and Guelich say that all stories must be told. Now it is time to share your story. You will be assigned to interview, and be interviewed by, one of your classmates concerning your spiritual journey in life. Use Hagberg and Guelich’s analysis/process as the format for telling your story. These interviews should be conducted via telephone. You should spend roughly half an hour as the interviewer and half an hour as the interviewee. Your professor will assign partners at random.
INSTRUCTIONS
When you are conducting the Peer Interview Sharing Your Spiritual Journey Assignment, you will take notes on your classmate’s answers, and then you will organize your notes to create a 500-word summary of your findings. You will submit your summary to the instructor in
Canvas.
As the interviewee, you may clarify elements as they present themselves, your goal being to simply provide information to the other person to cause him or her to understand where you have been and where you are in your spiritual journey. Use the interpersonal communication techniques listed at the bottom of this document to help present your story in a dyadic context. These are not difficult methods—you have used many of these techniques all your life.
Include the following in your discussion:
1. Introduce yourself.
2. Share where you are spiritually now.
3. Share each of the stages and when you went through them.
4. What stage are you at right now?
5. Share your experiences with hitting the wall.
6. What goals do you have for further spiritual development? Where do you want to be? What will it take spiritually for you to arrive at the goal stage?
Summary Findings for a Spiritual Journey Peer Interview
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Summary Findings for a Spiritual Journey Peer Interview
I got an excellent opportunity to interview Sierra Ford from South Carolina. She claims that she did not have a chance to grow up in a Christian way or attend church at an early age but had a cohesive relationship with God. She argues that her grandfather played a significant role in establishing this relationship with God early on. Notably, the most considerable element she got from her grandfather is a prayerful life, as she remembers praying every night before going to sleep. She began attending church after her uncle's death when she was 18. At this time, things began to make sense as her faith grew, and it was the end of her faith and life crisis.
Based on the spiritual journey, she went only to three stages: the recognition of God, the journey inward, and the wall. Arguably, she went through stage one, the recognition of God at an early age, through the support and introduction from her grandfather. Moreover, she went through stage four, the inward journey at the time of his college when she decided to explore Christian hood. Lastly, the fifth stage, the wall she went through after the birth of her daughter at 20 years, was where she was ready to explore and expand the kingdom.