Childhood Stories of Delight and Harm
1. Make a list of 10 stories from your childhood or early adulthood (before 21 years of age) that you would say had a profound effect on your life. Stories of Wholeness - The first five stories will be about wholeness...a time when you felt wholeness and goodness...justice, delight and belonging. For Stories of Wholeness, 1 is of the least amount of joy and delight and 5 would be the time in your life when you felt all the world was right, the happiest day you remember, etc. Skiing with Anita, Michael, Neil, aged 20. Rank 2. Prowling at night with Matthew, aged 12. Rank 3. Becoming the leader in the final project for my Bachelor of Information Technology, aged 21. Rank 2. Being delighted in by my Uncle Max, aged about 3. Rank 3. Being invited to dinner by Michael, Shane, and Don. Rank 3. 2. Stories of Harm - The second five stories will be a wound story involving an experience of loss, betrayal, powerlessness, or shame. For Stories of Harm, 1 is of the least amount hurt and hearta...