Family of Origin Questions Stories that were told most often in my family often revolved around..? Then, in my immediate family, the stories we heard most often had to do with..? What stories were emphasized most often, and what do they reveal about my family? Some of the earliest stories I remember hearing were...? The stories that are told about me generally focus on...? These stories depict me as...? According to the way the stories are told I am...? What is the significance of these stories? The concept of good/bad people in my family is...? The stories we were told about good and bad people were often about...? Some of the stories we were told as children about the world outside our home depicted the world as...? The dreams I had as a child, and still remember are...? The recurring dreams I had are...? The stories about my parents before they were married center around...? These stories tell me some things about my parents as people... My attitude towards the stories I hear from my family is...? Some of the reason for my attitude is... Some of my favorite family stories are...? The only stories I ever hear about myself as a child are centered on my being the family...? I like/dislike these stories because... I tell/don’t tell stories about myself as a child because the majority of the stories of me as a child are...? My family’s group photos are... They show me... The family stories I remember that helped shape me into who I am today are... There are family stories which I embrace or celebrate, and they are...? Some of the stories that were told I see as unhealthy and distorted now, such as the stories about... Something I have noticed about the more a family story is told... There were stories that were suppressed in my family, some of the reasons for suppressing them were...? Some of the qualities I would like to see in my family stories in the future include... Most of my current family stories seem... For me, some of the choices I can make to change the current style of story telling in my family would be to tell my own stories...? Stories of my neighborhood are... Looking back on the neighborhood stories, I would say that the impact on me, in comparison to my family stories are... The earliest story I heard in school was... In my early years, I learned the most from... When I got older, the stories I learned the most from were... People I know who tell the most interesting and informative stories are... The stories they tell are... The stories I remember hearing in school are... My values and outlooks were influenced by the stories I heard in school because... One of the things I value, because of the kind of education I got, is... These stories influenced my behaviors and influenced my ideas of being able to...         I think some of the stories I should have heard in school would have been about... When I learned how to read, I was... There were some stories I was assigned to read during my school years, some of these stories were... Some of the stories I read on my own were.... The reasons I read those stories were because... If I had the chance to read a story to young children in school it would probably be... To adolescents I would probably read... To young adults I would read... My schoolmates and the stories I would tell about my schoolmates would be... These stories show me some things about the people I chose/was forced to be around...? The discernable plot or theme to my school experience over the years is... The stories I remember in school that I tried to imitate in my own life were generally about... The earliest things I remember from church were... Early stories I remember my parents fighting over are... My early experiences with church were... My childhood response to stories of miracles and the supernatural were... Stories of the supernatural realm influenced my worldview by... As a child I had bonded myself to... Some of my favorite characters from Scripture are... I identify with them because... They are very different from me...? They are very similar to me...? My attitude towards these stories has become...? My early image of God looked/felt like... From Scripture I read stories of how God... My early images of my parents are similar to my pictures of God in these ways... In my family, stories of religious experiences were often about... My parents would tell stories about how the people in the churches/religious organizations would... The things that have stuck with me about religion and church because of those stories are... Stories of my own religious experience show... In the spiritual sense, today I am... Some of my favorite written stories are about.... There are some shows that I love to watch on television, because they show/depict... These shows affirm certain things about me... I think that a lot of the stories that have been told in popular culture surround common issues of... The values that recur in these stories are... These stories have changed in my lifetime, some of the cultural stories I remember as a kid were surrounded by... Now the stories are surrounded by... I think that a lot of this has changed because of... All kinds of stories in the popular media are ones that... I am drawn in by stories of... I am disturbed by stories about... This tells me that I am... Advertisers tell us that we, men and women, are...         Some of the stories that have really defined my life are stories that are... The qualities I want the story of my own life to have would include... I think that my current my life stories reflect qualities that are... I think that most of my present story is... I think that a plot in my life is wrapped up in... Some of the key events in this plot would include the experiences of... The plot of my life points to a future that is... I am afraid that the plot of my life will... I would love for my story to end... I think one of the things that I can do to make this more likely would be to... In my story, I would describe my character as... Some of the choices I have made in the past that contribute to my story being what it is now would include... Some of the choices I will need to make to have the future I desire would be... Other important characters in my past and present story would include... These people played a role in my story that can be described as... Without these people I would not be able to... I find the passion for my life’s dream in... I find encouragement and restoration in... I would say that the key players in my life story, so far, have been... I have played an important character in someone else’s story,  by... Some of the people that come to mind are... I think some of the ways I could continue to play a positive and important part in other people’s live would be... Some of the people that know my story are... The most negative reaction to my story told me that... The most positive reaction to my story told me that... I have been able to tell my story to... There are stories available to me that I might want to begin using to illustrate different aspects of healing. Some of them would be... Other stories that could be healthy and healing would be the stories of my good friend(s)...