Write your life story — a structured approach

The Guided Autobiography Method

The Guided Autobiography Method (GAB） is a structured approach to memoir writing. It offers a nurturing environment to organise and reflect on your memories, helping you create a strong foundation for your creative work, career, and personal growth.

What GAB is:

  • A small group and confidential setting to write generatively and share your written work,

  • Curated themes and prompts to guide introspection on impactful life events, two pages at a time,

  • An comfortable space to enhance self-acceptance and connection with others,

  • Facilitation of life transitions through personal history writing,

  • A therapeutic way of taking stock of past experiences, as well as reflecting on life’s next steps.

Our class format

What GAB isn’t:

  • Therapy,

  • A workshop to get craft-related critique from others,

  • A writing course with assigned readings and one-size-fits-all assignments.

Over five to eight weeks, we will delve into your life stories through themes like branching points, family, money and career, etc. Each theme comes with a set of prompts you are free to choose from. Each session will last two hours. Participants will do some free-writing and exercises to stimulate their creativity in the first hour, and then share their written stories from last week’s theme in the second hour.

Interested? Get in touch.

I will be offering a free virtual 5-week Guided Autobiography course in July 2025. Stay tuned for more details, or email me at hello@tzyjiun.com