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