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    The Legacy Recorder Community Guide: A guide to helping others write their life story
    The Legacy Recorder Community Guide: A guide to helping others write their life story
    The Legacy Recorder Community Guide: A guide to helping others write their life story
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    The Legacy Recorder Community Guide: A guide to helping others write their life story

    By Gael Gilliland

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    Somewhere someone in your life is experiencing death, grief, and unimaginable loss. Perhaps you yourself have experienced these monumental moments that shape our perception of the world. This book, and the process contained within it, is my response and expression of self-discovery as I processed the death of my father, the birth of my daughter, and a life irrevocably changed.

    What you will find in this book is an easy to use writing method that you can implement in groups or individually with the people you love and care for to help them tell their life stories. I know this is no small promise and the book may not seem long enough to accomplish this, but I assure you it's all in there. You already have everything you need to help someone else rediscover their human dignity, this book makes it a little easier.

    "When I heard about Gael's Legacy project and her approach to easily writing the story of your life, I IMMEDIATELY bought multiple copies. I have gotten profuse thanks from family members who are now deep into capturing those important memories and meanings from their lives!"

    -Wendy White

    "Recently my family interviewed my grandma on her 86th birthday.  We realized how little we knew about her life and wanted to learn more about her.  We used some of the questions and the format from Legacy Recorder. 

    It was an amazing experience.  It was helpful to have a format to follow and so fun to learn about her childhood and marriage to my grandpa.  I highly recommend Gael and the Legacy Recorder!"

    - Kristy H

    Book Details

    Length: 50-60 Pages When Printed

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Legacy Recorder Publishing House
    Release dateNov 24, 2016
    ISBN9781393837152
    The Legacy Recorder Community Guide: A guide to helping others write their life story
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    Gael Gilliland

    Gael Gilliland is the founder of The Legacy Recorder which helps every person tell their life story in a simple, intentional way for future generations to cherish. She is actively working with corporations, non-profits, and senior care facilities to help as many people as she can in recording their legacy. She also published The Legacy Recorder Community Guide so that individuals and families can get started on their legacy today. In addition to The Legacy Recorder, Gael has been a freelance writer for over ten years. She’s worked with businesses and individuals to help them create clear and effective content. Her projects include several full-length books, articles, and social media content for full calendar years. Gael is fortunate to work with her lifelong passion. From a young age, Gael had the desire to master the written word and help people tell their stories. Her own life experiences in college, motherhood, marriage, and loss have fueled her own story and given it a colorful arc of ups and downs, of losing and finding herself, and of discovering the beauty in every person’s story.  This is why she has made it her mission to get those stories down on paper before those stories fade.

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      The Legacy Recorder Community Guide - Gael Gilliland

      Foreword

      Thank you for purchasing this book and choosing to tell your story or help someone else tell theirs.

      The Legacy Recorder was written to help individuals, families, community centers, and the community at large.

      If you are in the position of helping someone to record their life story, thank you; you are blessing the story teller(s) and their loved ones. Please make sure and read the section titled ‘Bringing Legacy into Care Situations.’

      I sincerely hope you find inspiration to write your story and to share it with the people you love.

      Happy Writing! 

      Gael Gilliland

      The Legacy Recorder

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      Additional Resources

      To get access to the free worksheets referenced throughout the book please go here to download http://bit.ly/LRFMW). The pages have been formatted for easy printing or, if you have several story writers, you can copy them as well. The material is copyright protected, but can be reproduced within the confines of Legacy Recorder project sessions.

      In addition, I’ve included Blank Worksheets, Story by Numbers and a Word Bank that may help with the actual wording of the story, and I have put together several Pinterest boards (http://bit.ly/LRonPi) as resources to help participants with their story writing. You can find them here.

      This manual can be used in conjunction with or in addition to the Work With Someone You Love Course, which includes video instruction, the templates, and worksheets. To purchase the Work With Someone You Love Course, go here (http://bit.ly/LRHSYL).

      If you have any questions, comments, or stories to share, feel free to email me at info@thelegacyrecorder.com.

      CHAPTER ONE

      Introduction to the Legacy Recorder

      Why are we here?

      Why are we here? What is the purpose of this rotating orb of life? What is the purpose of your life? You don’t have to know the answers to know that each person on this planet has a purpose. Whatever your beliefs, we are here for better or worse to creatively conspire together and live with dignity.

      Dignity - the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect[1]

      When someone loses their sense of dignity, their sense of self is lost as well. How does this happen? It happens when we deny that person the chance to live to their fullest potential. It happens as their voice becomes a whisper and as we snuff it out with neglect and marginalization.

      The homeless elderly man you pass every day has a story to tell. Have you ever asked him what his full name is? Whether or not he like to travel? Or if he’s ever loved someone?

      And if the homeless man is gone one day, will you give him a momentary thought? Or decide that he just moved on? Will you even notice?

      Has anyone ever asked you these questions? Do you think they are worth answering? I do.

      I know that my purpose is to inspire people to write down their stories. And not just to write them down but to ask deeper questions and to want to know the answers. I believe every person’s story is valuable and important.

      When a person is asked to share their story, it gives them a renewed sense of self, dignity, and worth. The impact on the people who will hear the story will be immeasurable. We are losing stories every day, stories that have the potential to

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