Memento Project: Network of Conversations
This assignment requires you to gather a list of strengths, conduct interviews with people in your life, and create or collect "mementos" of those people as part of larger character sketches.
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After writing your initial list of strengths, and while you are consolodating them into two or three "umbrella" strengths, you will conduct informal interviews with 5-7 people in your everyday life. These individuals should come from diverse communities: family, work, school, friends (actual and virtual), and don't avoid antagonists--they are sometimes the best people to interview.
For each interview, you will invite the person to share the following with you: --what qualities they think you posses, --and for at least one quality they see in you (good or not), have them share a narrative of an event in which you displayed that quality. For each interview (regardless of how successful the interview was), you are to also provide character sketches of the person. These sketches will include: |
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The purpose of this exercise is to open you up to the network of conversations you live inside of, and to also reveal other possibilities for your recent, success, and cause narratives.
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