Session 5 · Going Deeper
The Life Story Interview
A WhyzMen summary
The research interview Dan McAdams uses to study how people make meaning of their lives. It walks through a life in sections: the chapters of your life; key scenes (a high point, a low point, a turning point, and others); your future script; the challenges you have faced; your personal ideology, including faith and values; and the single theme that runs through it all.
McAdams tells each person up front that the purpose is not to find out what is wrong with them. It is to hear the story they tell, because that story is how they understand who they are.
Why it is here
Session 5's Three Markers and the Read My Story work draw on this same idea: the scenes you choose, and how you tell them, shape the life you can live next.
This is someone else’s published work, so WhyzMen links to the original rather than reposting it.