Talking about our own personal experience may be important in care relationships, but isn't talking about your own life something that goes on all the time?
This is the sort of activity you can do as and when. Just carry on with the unit at present and keep an eye out for any personal stories in your leisure time.
When you've got a moment, or feel like taking a short break from this unit, check through the newspapers, magazines, television, radio and film listings, books and adverts which have come your way recently. How many of them carry a personal story about the past or include someone talking about their own life as an illustration or source of information? We've assembled a few examples in the collage below. Looking through them, what kind of messages do you think they attempt to convey?
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Figure 1 Personal experience seems to get into everythingLong description
You might find yourself overwhelmed by the amount of personal detail that's available. You might also have noticed that personal history and biography has found its way into all sorts of different kinds of information: advertising, fundraising, leisure activities, entertainment. The messages in the clippings included in the collage seem to be about identifying with the people shown by calling up emotions and experiences which may be shared. Personalising accounts with stories of real people, or making them seem real by quoting their words, using their actual names, or showing images from earlier in their lives makes it more likely that we'll pause and get ‘hooked? by what we read. Sometimes these images are difficult to pass by.
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