Handout 3: Teachers, Mentors, and Role Models: A Letter of Thanks
List the teachers, mentors, and role models (historical, fictional, and/or personal) who have supported you in being who you are and becoming who you want to be. Next to each person’s name list the qualities you see in this person that you are grateful to foster in yourself. Consider how the Spirit of Life moves through these people’s lives and through the relationships you have had with them.Create a letter of gratitude for the ways you have been influenced by the teachers, mentors, and role models you have had. Express gratitude for those who have supported you and the gifts they’ve given to help you become your self. Include an expression of your own gifts and the fruits of your efforts. You may choose to offer your thanksgiving in the form of a prayer or litany, as a poem, as a song, or simply as prose.
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Last updated on Friday, April 18, 2008.
