Brain Fitness Debrief #3

A new focus of conversation this week included S's love for the outdoors, and being in nature. This was brought about by looking at a picture of him and his siblings playing outside as young children; this went along perfectly with the object I brought in, a transcendental book about nature and spirituality. He recalled memories of going camping, along with hobbies and sports that brought him outside throughout his youth (mainly basketball). As the main focus of last week was his marriage, it is evident that we tapped into another source of passion for him. The conversation seemed to flow a lot easier in this realm of thinking because I am an environmental studies major, and had many stories of travelling abroad to Australia to share with him. This then led him into speaking of his own time spent abroad in Europe, and so on. I think I am going to make the theme of one of his memory books "the outdoors", as this topic seemed to really inspire him. While I have been taking separate notes on  his stories and then categorizing them under common, main themes, I have also been taking photos of his photos and objects in front of his own written talking points, to visually remind me of the topic of conversation at the time. I think that next week I am going to have to focus more on writing phrases and putting them in the background of each image I take, because this is more organic to the true flow of the conversation and will embody each conversation more precisely, while not completely distracting from the other focal points of the image.