Depends on your client
Learning Objective(s)
- Mapping out what your client has been through in life and what have they learned from it
- Mapping out the life goals. What does your client want to achieve in life
- Gaining knowledge of past hurdles that they have overcome and gaining insight in skills learned from it
Instructions
Introduction
I want to talk about your life story. And I want you to split your life up into different chapters.
- Your past
- The present
- Your idea of the future.
I’m going to ask about important happenings and people. I will ask about your expectations about the future and the people you will need within those expectations The goal of this conversation is understanding your story.
Splitting your life up in different chapters
We can look at your life story like a book. We’ll split it up in different chapters. Let’s make between 2 and 5 chapters What are the titles of these chapters? If you look back on life which chapters do you see?
Giving your chapters content
Who was important to you in that chapter? These can also be “heroes” that were inspirational for you at that moment. What were the highs and lows for you in the period. And how did that affect your behaviour. How do you look back on that behaviour. What did you learn? How did you feel during those periods? How did your feelings have influence on your behaviour? When was your life going well? What was the reason for it? What were you doing? How can you use these skills in the future?
Vision for the future
What will your future look like? What are your dreams, expectations and plans? What areas of life will be important to you? Relationships, work, finances, housing… When will you be content with your future? What title would you give to your future chapter? Where will you get help? What did you learn in the earlier chapters that will be very important in your future? What skills were useful, and what behaviour was counterproductive?
Summarise the experience
Summarise the chapters and formulate open goals and expectations to further work within your process with the client.
Instructions
Introduction
I want to talk about your life story. And I want you to split your life up into different chapters.
- Your past
- The present
- Your idea of the future.
I’m going to ask about important happenings and people. I will ask about your expectations about the future and the people you will need within those expectations The goal of this conversation is understanding your story.
Splitting your life up in different chapters
We can look at your life story like a book. We’ll split it up in different chapters. Let’s make between 2 and 5 chapters What are the titles of these chapters? If you look back on life which chapters do you see?
Giving your chapters content
Who was important to you in that chapter? These can also be “heroes” that were inspirational for you at that moment. What were the highs and lows for you in the period. And how did that affect your behaviour. How do you look back on that behaviour. What did you learn? How did you feel during those periods? How did your feelings have influence on your behaviour? When was your life going well? What was the reason for it? What were you doing? How can you use these skills in the future?
Vision for the future
What will your future look like? What are your dreams, expectations and plans? What areas of life will be important to you? Relationships, work, finances, housing… When will you be content with your future? What title would you give to your future chapter? Where will you get help? What did you learn in the earlier chapters that will be very important in your future? What skills were useful, and what behaviour was counterproductive?
Summarise the experience
Summarise the chapters and formulate open goals and expectations to further work within your process with the client.
Assessment Methods
- Self-reflection
- Life-line drawn out by the youngster
Resources needed
- Big sheet of paper, drawing, you can be creative
