What goes on at your Support Group Meetings?

NancySmiles · June 15, 2005

Any ideas or tips on what you do at your support group meetings?

Ours are ok but lately have been scattered in different directions. HOw do we gain back control?

Nancy

the best me · June 15, 2005

At my meetings I start my logging on to LBT, then I go to the New Posts list, and start reading...hehe, not what you wanted, right?

Gaining control of the meeting...take a list of requests for topics, come to a consensus about the topic for the next meeting. Make sure there is "open question" time at the end of each meeting. If someone tries to go off topic, write it down for the list of "open" items at the end. If everyone wants to drop the meeting topic and move on, do it. Let the participants have the control, you just direct the time, provide the structure, be the "orchestra" conductor.

Have a pre-made list of on-topic questions to ask to get people talking?

Or, okay, I'm brewing now. Say the meeting is an hour and a half. Fifteen min for greetings, intro of topic, reminders, etc, then a half hour for topic, half hour for off-topic, and the last 15 min for NSV's, funny personal stories related to being banded, etc. Know what I mean?

Is that what you had in mind? Hope that helps.