*note: if you'd like to fill out the Personal Development Plan to send to the Lifeboat Academy Team, please access the template here, and make a copy to fill out and send back to us. Thank you!*

Personal Development Plan 

Name

Current Date: 

Target Date: 

This document helps us understand your expectations as well as capture feedback about your experience while on the farm. We will use this information to find the best fit between your interests and the farm's needs as well as to improve our systems of operation and ability to foster cultural & planetary regeneration. 

1. What brought you here?

   1. In a few sentences, describe the journey that has brought you to be interested in building a lifeboat. What have you learned along the way? What feels like the current challenges or tension? 

2. What direction are you hoping to move in? 

   1. What feels like the growth edge? What’s calling you? What would you like to improve upon, learn, or become more skilled in? 

      1. Long view: 

      2. This Season: 
         

3. How will you get from here to there?

   1. What feels like the highest ROE ways of moving closer to your goals?

4. Targets

   1. What are some concrete targets you want to set for yourself - either process targets (e.g. “stretch 5 times a week”) or outcome targets (e.g. “have two articles published on a third-party site”).

5. What would help?

   1. What supports would help you reach your goal / stick to your plan?

6. Balancing the energy flow

   1. How do you feel you can contribute to the health and vitality of the farm?

7. Personal Agreements

1. What agreements are you making with yourself? What reminders seem relevant?

Badge Plan

Take a look at the Master Badge List for currently available badges. Select no more than three guilds and identify the list of badges within each that you would like to earn.