Aim To develop a structured approach to using personal experience as story material.
How to play the game:
- Ask each participant to think about three significant public events which have marked their lives
- Ask them to write them down including the year in which they occurred
- Draw a timeline on a flip chart and write up the event and the name of the person for whom it was significant
- Go round the group and ask each person to say why these events are significant, what the impact was and how it affected them
The game will:
- Reveal more information about each group member
- Create a common understanding across the group
- Compare shared experiences of different perspectives in the group
- Provide another starting point for developing personal stories
Activity is reproduced courtesy of The Silver Stories Project