Article "Memory in Later Life and How to Make the Most of It"

Memory in Later Life and How to Make the Most of It. Article by V.Bissland, C.Holland and L.Brown. Lancaster Conference, UK; June, 2014.

WHAT IS MEMORY FOR YOU?

Presentation about the survey on personal visions about memory...
By the Italian group; presented in Germany.

WHAT IS MEMORY FOR YOU?

Results of the working groups of Italy on mnemothecniques

Template 1_acronyms


Template 2 acrostics


Template 3 loci technique


Template 4 associations

This slides has been presented during the meeting in Rome.

SEE THE SLIDES HERE:
Stereotypes about Italy

see here

Autobiographical Memory

Presentation for the workshop on autobiographical method in Rome.

see here:
Autobiographical Memory

Questionnaire on autobiographical personal practices

This questionnaire is one of the tool we used to explore and practice the autobiographical methods. The results were exposed during the meeting in Rome.

Questionnaire on autobiographical  personal practices

My relationship with autobiographical practices

1) Do you usualy write about yourself?

If yes, how often?

2) What kind of autobiographical genre do you prefer?

-          Autobiography

-          Diary

-          Letters

-          Other

-           

3) How long have you been keeping record of these memories?

What age did you start?

4) Do you usually keep memory of events of your life using photos, video, collecting object and other kinds of memoires?

If yes, please specify what kind of means you use:

-          photos,

-          video,

-          collecting object and

-          other kinds of memoires (short notes, diary, box of memories, old boxes covered with dust etc...)

5) Are there any favouite occasions when you like collecting memories? (eg. journeys, celebrations, dramatic events, historical events, etc..)

6) Who do you like sharing your memories with?

My autobiographycal list

This exsercise is one of the tool we used to explore and practice the autobiographical methods. The results were exposed during the meeting in Rome.

My autobiographycal list

My autobiographical list according the different stages of life:

Childhood, Teenage, Adulthood, Old age

Please, for each stage of life, list the first ten short memories that come to your mind (it can be a sentence like“summer holidays when my granmother used to take me to the park to play with the fountains on scorching days” or it can be a word like “pop corns at the circus”).

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

1) .......

2) ........

3) ......

......

TEENAGE MEMORIES

1) .......

2) ........

3) ......

......

ADULT MEMORIES

1) .......

2) ........

3) ......

......

OLD AGE MEMORIES

1) .......

2) ........

3) ......

......

And now please tell us about a particularly meaningful autobiographical episode about each stage.

Childhood

.....

 Teenage

......

Adulthood

....

Old age

....

Thanks for sharing your memories with us!

4th Meeting - Italy

The meeting in Rome started on the Afternoon of Friday 11th of October 2013, with a welcome dinner-buffet offered by Unieda. It was the occasion to visit the Unieda office.

On the 12th of  October the activity started with ice breaking and introduction by the Italian team...
After that Manuela one of the italian coordinator, presented the result of the quetionnaires and the autobiographical list:

My autobiographycal list

My autobiographical list according the different stages of life:

Childhood, Teenage, Adulthood, Old age (see the exsercise here)

The result was quite interesting... some memories seems to be commune despite the differe cultures....
Another questionnaire was related to the "autobiographical  personal practices".

After the coffee break  the workshops on autobiography started, coordinated by Andrea, Maneula and Claudia.

Particularly the work aimed to explore the implicit meanings, values, visions in the memories the participants wrote home.Here the questions we used to explore these memoreis....

Implicit meanings and contents of the memories:

•       Learnings, things we’ve learned...

•       Experiences that made us know the wonder of existence and the wonder of the world ...

  

•       Values, the awareness of what is important, what we value in life ...

•       The World, discovering "how the world works" ...

•       My self, discovering "as is am" ...

•       Questions (implicit) that the experiences have left to me, and I’m still trying to answer ...

•       ..... (other categories about the intentionality and content...) 

The participants selected fragments of the memories they wrote, connecting each experience or memory with teh categories listed above...

The point was to higligth non olny the act of remembering, but also "why" we remember... what the implicit intentionality that is behind the act to remember something about our life...


... to be continued...

3rd Meeting - Hungary

Memory XL        3rd international meeting

30 May (Thursday)

arrival + welcome dinner in a restaurant

31 May (Friday)

9-10.30                welcome/introduction by the Hungarian group

                            ice-breaking activities and short introduction by each team 

10.30-11.00        coffee break

11.00-12.15        workshop

12.15-14.00        lunch break

14.00-15.30        workshop + related activities (group work)

16.00-                 outdoor activities with all participants 

1 June (Saturday)

9-10.30                workshop

10.30-11.00        coffee break

11.00-12.15        Manuela’s presentation on discussion groups’ work + workshop

12.15-14.00        lunch break

14.00                   sightseeing for learners

                            first round of staff meeting 

evening                 facultative programmes in the town (recommended by the Hungarian team)

2 June (Sunday)

9.00-11.00           staff meeting 

some programme for learners

teams’ departure