Winning Words Lesson Guide (Adults) Winnning Words Lesson Plan Guide | Page 28

Finding You
In order to find the thing
you want most in life, your
search must begin with
finding who you are. The
poem Living Chartreuse by
Stephen Sandiford
suggests that instead of
retreating from life, we
ought to engage with it
through authentic living
experiences with the
dynamism and innocent
curiosity of a child. By so
doing, we actually work
constructively towards
finding the joy of living –
the Living Chartreuse, and
finding
ourselves in the process.
Try the poetry writing
exercise here as a creative
means of discovering more
(and accepting more) about
who you are.
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I Am From
I am from ___________________________________________________
(a specific item in your childhood home)
I am from____________________________________________________
(two products from your past)
I am from____________________________________________________
(a general phrase describing your childhood home)
and _____________________________________________________
(plants, trees, objects from your past)
I am from ______________________________________________________
(two more objects from your childhood)
from___________________ and ______________________
(family name; a family trait or tendency)
I am from___________________________________________________
(a favourite phrase or memory)
I am from_________________________ and _______________________________
( another ancestor’s historical fact/job ) ( another ancestor’s fact/legend or job )
from _____________________________________________________
(two foods from your families’ tradition/history)
from___________________________________________
(a special event in the life of an ancestor/family member)
and from_________________________________
(a memory or object you had as a child)
I am from these moments____________________________________________
(conclude by finishing this thought or by repeating a line or idea from
earlier in the poem)
I am______________________________________
(your full name)