Lisbeth's back from her travels and has been talking a lot about one of the things she did on her sort of retreat. It involves how we tell the story of our life.
It seems that we may have a preferred style of narrating our life to others and to ourselves. The exercise she described involves experimenting with different ways of telling the various stories of our lives. This doesn't mean that the facts are altered. It is more a case of changing the lens through which they are viewed. So, for example, they practiced talking about a fairly ordinary time slot in their lives, then retelling it in one of the following genre styles: Heroic, Comedy, Detective, Social Realism.
Lisbeth says that this simple exercise had quite a profound effect on her and has given her much food for thought. She has become aware of her own tendency to narrate the significant events in her life as if she were the villain of the piece. This, I am convinced, can't be the case, so I will be encouraging her to re-tell some of her narratives in a more constructive way.
For those of you who are interested, the theory behind this is George Kelly's Personal Construct Theory.
http://www.pcp-net.org/encyclopaedia/pc-theory.html
It seems that we may have a preferred style of narrating our life to others and to ourselves. The exercise she described involves experimenting with different ways of telling the various stories of our lives. This doesn't mean that the facts are altered. It is more a case of changing the lens through which they are viewed. So, for example, they practiced talking about a fairly ordinary time slot in their lives, then retelling it in one of the following genre styles: Heroic, Comedy, Detective, Social Realism.
Lisbeth says that this simple exercise had quite a profound effect on her and has given her much food for thought. She has become aware of her own tendency to narrate the significant events in her life as if she were the villain of the piece. This, I am convinced, can't be the case, so I will be encouraging her to re-tell some of her narratives in a more constructive way.
For those of you who are interested, the theory behind this is George Kelly's Personal Construct Theory.
http://www.pcp-net.org/encyclopaedia/pc-theory.html
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