This month, buffeted by an unusually cold and wet monsoon, I’ve again started facilitating the Guided Autobiography group for NUSC alumni that I run each year. It’s something I enjoy doing very much. As a practice, guided autobiography brings together two important pieces my life: psychological practices (in the largest sense of the word) related to care and growth, and processes of writing and reading. As I facilitate the groups,

Ageing is an unlooked-for process, one that’s perhaps difficult to put into narrative form. When you’re young you acquire more skills, quickly in your teens and early twenties, and then more slowly in your middle years. This is the romance narrative, a hero on a quest of self-development. Then, in your fifties and increasingly in your sixties, your ability in some areas begins to slowly erode, imperceptibly at first. No