There are a lot of new people in this group! We haven't had an in person meeting in a while so let's change that. I will set up a meeting for every Thursday at 7PM at The Studio, Pirate's Quay shopping center in Nags Head. We can call it 7-8PM for now and leave it open to the group whether we meet for longer, until 8:15 or so.
I'm thinking keep it relaxed and see what happens with discussion and so forth. This meeting will be as much about building supportive community with each other as it will be about learning and practicing new skills and tools. Every one of us brings strengths to whatever stresses and challenges we have in our lives but we aren't always good at recognizing what those are and building on them.
As a group we can also see what kind of topics will be the best fit but generally we will be talking about working with stresses and challenges in a strengths based and resilient way. We will talk about ways to build resilience, resources, coping skills and so forth. We can talk about creating plans for how to respond to particular life challenges with relationships, boundaries, emotion regulation, cultivating a more mindful and responsive approach to challenges rather than just reacting through our old unhelpful habit patterns.
There is no charge because this is just each of us building supportive community for each other. Our presence is what's important. There's no need to RSVP or anything, just show up when you can! I am only using the meetup app as a way of advertising the group. Feel free to message ahead of time with any questions or suggestions.