Workbook
For Polish (American) Families
A Workbook on Catholic Identity, the Communist Legacy, and the American Life Built on What Was Left Behind
Your grandmother's silence was not rejection. It was survival. Your asking is what she protected.
For the Polish American family navigating Catholic identity formation, assimilation pressure, and the inherited silence of grandparents who survived occupation — who wants to pass heritage to children while living fully American lives.
The Name It First Experience
American prosperity and Polish identity can coexist. The Polish Family Resilience Charter helps families untangle inherited patterns of assimilation, honor sacrifices of previous generations, navigate Catholic identity across the diaspora, and rebuild meaningful connections with heritage — not through nostalgia, but through grounded family work. You name the silence, trace what it held, and build the agreements for conscious transmission. The output is not a history lesson. It is The Polish Family Resilience Charter — a stress-tested, signed family document.
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Sample questions
- What does being Polish American mean in your family — and what has been left unsaid about what was sacrificed to build the life you have?
- What role has Catholic faith played in your family's identity — and how does that live in you now, separate from obligation?
- What would the Polish American Family Charter say about what you are choosing to carry forward, and what you are choosing to release?
Research basis
Thomas and Znaniecki on the Polish peasant in America / Orsi on Catholic identity in diaspora / Berry on acculturation / Bowen on intergenerational family systems / van der Kolk on intergenerational transmission of trauma.
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