[Dialogue] Process for a self-help group

[Del Morrill]

I had a group of women who met for awhile in my home - "Women's Worth" after
the book by Marianne Williamson.
Tried to have a structure with flexibility.  Read some meaningful article or
some paragraphs out of a book, then, starting with rather objective or
innocuous questions like what lines or phrases do you remember, continuing
into questions like did you hear yourself anywhere in this, or, how is this
expressed in your own life, or in the life of our country, etc., etc.  It
allowed us to do something more than just chat about nonentities.  Even with
that, it eventually became merely a place for people to gripe about their
problems or worse, focused on the problems of the same people over and
over --- so I cancelled it out eventually.    I'd love to hear of anyone's
success with ongoing groups that are beyond group counseling sessions.
Your colleague,
Del

Responding to Ghee's note:
I'd be interested to hear if anyone has
experience of working with a very loosely structured group that meets
regularly over along period of time: what processes have worked, what type
of planning is required, what's your experience?



Del Hunter Morrill, M.S., Counseling Hypnotherapist
Author of the GREAT ESCAPES script books
and the NEW BEGINNINGS recording series

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