Using Ikigai to Craft Your Purpose: Workbook and Recorded Course
You’ve spent years doing what needs doing. What matters to you now?
Perhaps life looks perfectly reasonable from the outside, but you’re quietly wondering, “Is this still what I want?”
You may be considering a change in work, adjusting to a different stage of life or simply wanting more space for the things that make you feel like yourself.
Using Ikigai to Craft Your Purpose offers a structured way to explore what brings your life meaning, what energises you and the strengths you bring with you.
Through reflection and practical exercises, you’ll gather ideas for a personal purpose statement—something you can revisit as your circumstances and priorities change.
Choose the printed workbook, optional recorded lessons, or both.
Sign into your lessons.
HAVE THE BOOK? BRING IT ALONG!
If you’ve arrived through the QR code in your workbook, you’re in the right place!
The recorded lessons add guided teaching to the activities in your book. I’ll walk you through the ideas, explain the exercises and help you apply them to your own experiences.
Lesson access is purchased separately from the workbook.
CHOOSE YOUR WAY TO LEARN
THE PRINTED WORKBOOK — £11.99
A place to pause, reflect and put your thoughts into words.
Explore what you love, what you’re good at, where you might contribute and how paid work fits into your picture. Bring your reflections together into a personal purpose statement.
Return to your answers whenever you want to reconsider your direction.
THE RECORDED LESSONS — £27.01
Prefer someone to talk you through the thinking?
The recorded lessons provide explanations, examples and prompts to support your reflection. Pause when you need to, complete an activity and return when you’re ready.
Use your own notebook or purchase the printed workbook separately.
THE BOOK AND LESSONS — £39 COMBINED
A workbook to write in, with recorded teaching to guide you through the work.
Purchase the book through Amazon and the lessons here on the ETCH website. These are two separate purchases.
The £39 combined price is based on the workbook costing £11.99 and lesson access costing £27.01. Any Amazon delivery charges are additional.
A workbook to write in, with recorded teaching to guide you through the work.
Purchase the book through Amazon and the lessons here on the ETCH website. These are two separate purchases.
The £39 combined price is based on the workbook costing £11.99 and lesson access costing £27.01. Any Amazon delivery charges are additional.
WHAT WILL YOU EXPLORE?
WHAT MATTERS TO YOU NOW?
Consider the people, experiences and activities that make life feel worthwhile. Give yourself permission to notice how your priorities have changed.
WHAT LIGHTS YOU UP?
Look for clues in your interests, past experiences and moments when you become absorbed in something. Explore the themes underneath the activities: creativity, connection, challenge, learning or contribution.
WHAT ARE YOU GOOD AT?
Recognise skills and strengths developed through work and everyday life. Look at achievements, recurring feedback and the things you make look easy because you’ve practised them for years.
WHERE COULD YOU CONTRIBUTE?
Reflect on needs you care about and ways you might make a difference—to another person, your community or through your work.
HOW DOES PAID WORK FIT?
Consider how your interests and abilities relate to earning a living, while making room for meaning in other parts of your life too.
BRINGING YOUR THINKING TOGETHER
Use your reflections to draft a personal purpose statement. Explore whether it reflects your own priorities or expectations you’ve absorbed from elsewhere.
A STARTING POINT YOU CAN RETURN TO
You don’t have to uncover one perfect answer or make a dramatic life change.
You might notice something you want to make more room for, recognise a strength you’ve overlooked or find words for a direction you’d like to explore.
Your answers can evolve with you.
MEET YOUR TEACHER
I’m Teresa Harris Boag, an Executive Coach & Behavioural Change Specialist, qualified teacher and former school senior leader.
My work brings together education, coaching and practical approaches to behavioural change. I help people make sense of their patterns and turn insight into action.
These lessons bring that teaching approach into a programme you can work through in your own time.
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Looking for another starting point? Explore a subject that connects with what you need now.
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Setting Boundaries
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The Art of Reinvention
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Design Your Own Behavioural Operating System
Notice your default responses and develop behaviours that work better for you.
Exploring Your Relationship with Food
Explore habits, emotions and the role food plays in your life with curiosity.
Procrastination
Understand what gets in the way and find manageable steps towards action.
Breaking Bad Habits
Explore the patterns, triggers and beliefs behind behaviours you want to change.
Entrepreneurial Mindset
Develop curiosity, adaptability and confidence in turning ideas into action.
