Example of spiritual life map. From "Developing spiritual lifemaps as a culture-centered pictorial instrument for spiritual assessments with Native American clients" by G.E. Limb and D.R. Hodge, 2007, Research on Social Work Practice, 17(2), p. 298. Copyright 2007 SAGE Publications. The participants who received this example said they wished they had not seen it, because it biased them. The one indigenous participant in the study had already filled out a life map in recent previous research with the author. She was willing to do another life map, if it was done orally, as a discussion. The participant and I did not complete this discussion. If we had, I might have used prompts about the participant's relationship with the Creator. However there would be an understanding that, because of the sacred nature of many traditional ceremonies, she might not have been able to share the details of ceremony, custom, or ritual (Limb & Hodge, 2007).

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... response, during phone calls or meetings post distribution of the maps, participants were encouraged to "Just identify four or five major transitions and what you learned from them." If participants were still hesitant, they were given the following example in Figure 5. The LifeForward plan (McLean, 2016), another tool used in this study, was created to help adults grow into elderhood and navigate the "rapid, dramatic, and disruptive change" (p. ...