Discovering or Rediscovering Purpose Question Bank
For Coaches, Facilitators and Leaders
Supporting Meaningful Conversations About Discovering, Rediscovering, and Living Your True Calling
"When your work is aligned with your purpose, you don't just do what you love—you serve what matters.”
200+ Questions to Open, Deepen, and Guide Purpose Alignment Conversations
This question bank provides 200+ ready-to-use questions designed to help coaches, facilitators, and leaders open, deepen, and guide purpose-based conversations with clients or colleagues discovering their calling for the first time or rediscovering purpose they've temporarily lost.
Ten Essential Conversation Frameworks:
- Opening Purpose Conversations – Questions that help clients or colleagues identify what drives them through moments of meaning, career patterns, and deeper calling
- Recognising Purpose Misalignment – Questions that reveal disconnection, understand the hollowness of purposeless achievement, and notice drift
- Discovering Your Purpose – Questions for those seeking to identify their calling for the first time through strengths, impact desires, and natural inclinations
- Rediscovering Lost Purpose – Questions for those reconnecting with purpose they once knew but have temporarily lost
- Clarifying Purpose Drivers – Questions that help clients or colleagues name what truly matters, test understanding, and distinguish purpose from goals
- Purpose in Decision-Making – Questions for evaluating opportunities, navigating transitions, and testing choices against purpose
- Moving Toward Purpose Alignment – Questions that explore possibilities, identify practical steps, and address what's stopping purposeful action
- Sustaining Purpose Connection – Questions for maintaining awareness, recognising evolution, and preventing drift
- When Purpose and Practicality Collide – Questions for navigating tensions between calling and circumstances
- Supporting Others' Purpose Journeys – Questions for facilitating purpose discovery and holding space for exploration
Throughout the question bank, questions are organised by professional development purpose, allowing you to quickly find language that fits your client’s or colleague’s current moment. Each section includes questions that invite exploration, helping others discover their own clarity about what truly drives them and how to honour that purpose in their professional lives.
This resource stands alone as a practical tool for immediate use in professional development sessions, with deeper exploration of purpose alignment available in School of WorkLife's Purpose Alignment: Finding Your True North in Your WorkLife.
One-time purchase. Unlimited professional use in individual and group settings.