We started out our sessions writing at least 2 pages on different topics which we had chosen. The book our guide used was-telling the stoires of life through "guided Autobiography groups" by james birren and kathryn cochran.
in this topics and how to approach a subject were laid out. Some of the ones we used were: our family, how we view money, our health, etc.
I remember on the one about money one our members read hers and remarked how she had had no idea she viewed money the way she did. It was a total surprise to her. This type of thing has happened a lot in our group's meetings.
we are a varied lot. our ages are 60 to 85, so there is tons of life lived to draw on. We have nuns, biologists, artists, social workers,educators and all manners of ways each of us is creating our way we voice our views of ourselves.
as we have grown it also seems each of our views seems to expand the views of our group in a way which helps each of us view our own individual experience... to see it differently or find our common ground.
It has made us look forward to our next installment... like a tv series. "what next"," to be continued".
Some of our group do not write that much but verbally experiment with what they have seen or gone through. Poetry we are seeing is a profound method for one of our members. It is amazing the effect it has on all of us when this person shares the poems with us. We can see it, feel it and understand a way of seeing the essence of an event.
One poem was so clever it was a date with "freecell" the computor game-like solitaire. very cute and "yes" for me too this game us so addicting.
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