Description
List of 9 supplemental exercises for Life Story Writing
These supplements represent sample activities you might use to prompt discussions related to you or your participants’ life stories.
- Matching exercise: Apt Names – This lighthearted quiz about names that suit their owners’ occupations is intended to provide an introduction to talking about our names and their meanings to us.
- Choose One – The questions in this discussion activity were referenced several times in the course content. Participants’ answers reveal many of their routines, interests, preferences and values.
- Your Best Qualities – This self-esteem-building list, also referenced in the course, asks participants to note their best characteristics.
- Reminisce about Terms of Endearment – Not referenced in the course, but a fun activity, this exercise promotes discussion of nicknames used affectionately.
- Word game: Opposing Proverbs – Can you match the proverb to its opposite? Which do you believe? Does it depend on circumstances? This is an exercise that reveals some of the ways we choose to live our lives, and as referenced in the course, introduces discussions about our values.
Talk about Family Stories – These short vignettes are meant to trigger memories that prompt participants to tell their own related stories.- Trivia quiz: Childhood Toys – As referenced in the course, this exercise is meant to prompt childhood memories.
- Trivia quiz: Bountiful Beer – As referenced in the course, this exercise is meant to show that reminiscence can also be prompted by lighthearted adult themes.
- Plan a Celebration: Decorate a cake – An example of how to draw out memories by literally drawing the prompt.
