How do I grow into the person I am capable of becoming?

Why The Process of Becoming Matters

Human beings are not static. Although each of us begins with particular capacities, tendencies, motivations, values, and ways of engaging the world, these realities do not fully determine who we will become. Throughout life, experience continually creates possibilities for growth, adaptation, refinement, healing, and transformation.

Becoming occurs through participation in life itself. Relationships shape us. Challenges expose both capacities and limitations. Responsibilities call forth new forms of maturity. Experience changes perspective, and the ways we interpret those experiences influence the meaning they acquire. Growth may be intentional or unexpected, gradual or disruptive, and different dimensions of a person may develop at different rates.

The Process of Becoming therefore concerns more than change alone. It concerns movement toward greater maturity, coherence, and wholeness—the gradual integration of thought, emotion, relationship, experience, purpose, and character into a more fully developed way of being.

The Process of Becoming’s Place in the Landscape

The Process of Becoming serves as the developmental bridge between The Traveler: Recognizing Self and Character. Recognizing Self helps us understand the traveler who undertakes the journey; Becoming describes how that traveler grows and changes through participation in life; Character gives increasingly enduring form to what emerges through that development.