Day 252: GAB 1 Branching Points

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Lesson 1 Branching Points
Story of your life, written by yourself.
A kind of timeline of events in a person's life
- Childhood
- Parent
- Friend
- Mentor

Benefits
Gain insights about our own life
Combine work with Play
Group settings gain so much more insights and reflection

Programme Takeaways
GAB started to used in 1980s
- Helps to increase sense of Self
- Strengthen Cognition
- Make new friends
- Increase writing skills
- Renew life's aspirations
- Create a memoir of sorts ie People, Things, sights, smell, touch, past memories

Warm up: What is my favourite childhood food?

My favourite food is 9 Layers rainbow kuey, because it is colorful and it is fun to tear away one strip by another strip.

Recall a memory of a past
I remembered my mother's grandma place where it is shophouse. My grand parents used to open a provision shop. Times were hard. Yet, the children played together and I remembered most of the fun games are at the staircase.

The Major Branching Points in Your Life
Branching points are the turning points in your life - the events, experiences, or insights that shaped your life and its directions. They may have been big events such as marriage, war, moving to a new city, or retirement. Or they may have been small events that had big outcomes, like reading a book or going on a hike.

SENSITIZING QUESTIONS
1. What was the earliest branching point in your life? What happened, and why was it important? How old were you at the time?