How Do You Make A Life Timeline?
Your life is composed of a complex history of decisions, events and relationships, each of which plays a role in you becoming who you are today. Creating a life time line can be an opportunity to better understand yourself and this personal history and for engaging constructively with others. Here are a few steps for getting started. Separate out your key relationships, personal achievements, important events (marriage, the birth of a child, etc.) and intellectual and emotional milestones, and list these under separate headings. This will allow you to begin to visualize your life history as multidimensional so that you can illustrate the connections. Draw a thick horizontal line on a sheet of graph paper, making sure to leave enough room for each stage of your life. You might want to adapt the visual language of so-called “genograms” for use here. These symbols typically include the following: – Square: male – Circle: female – Triangle: pregnancy – Crossed-out Box: death – Squiggly Lin
