😊 Sun May 18, 2025 12:30 PM Deep Talk Potluck! New Location in West Ashley! 📢

Announcements:
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For Sunday, May 8, 2025:

1. New location!! Thanks Jennifer for hosting!! 💫

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• The purpose of the group is to express what is on your mind, getting deep and vulnerable. If you are not comfortable sharing about your life (and hearing about our lives too of course), please do not attend. This is NOT a group to just listen passively! 🙊😃
• And as we heard on Sammie and Michelle's podcast, a gathering for everyone is a gathering for no one. This event is for people that want to speak and be heard, just as much as listening respectively.
• Listen here! 158. How to Have a Party with Purpose: Crafting Deep Connections and Meaningful Moments by Being Specific About a Gathering's Purpose

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• Bring your favorite dish! We do potluck-style in a more quiet setting at members' clubhouses and homes, where we can speak (and hear each other!) without the hustle and bustle of the usual Sunday lunchtime restaurants (and cost!). If possible, please bring healthy proteins 🍗, salads 🥗, cheeses 🧀, bottled water 💧, dry red/white wines 🍷, and if you can, try to avoid sugary things! 🏋️
• Be mindful of RSVP! If you no show, and do not message anyone at least a day before, you will be removed from the group immediately. We may eventually do off-Meetup activities, and select from those who can abide by this rule. ⛑

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Guiding Principles:

• Tell stories! Be vulnerable! Share your perspectives through illustration AND depth. It will give others the courage to do so as well.
• Be willing to stretch your comfort zone and points of view rather than to defend, maintain and validate them.
• Listen to HEAR and witness rather than to generate a response [this isn't a debate club]
• Be respectful of everyone else's unique life experience and perspectives
• Do your part to ensure everyone gets an opportunity to be heard (be mindful of how much you are talking vs listening)
• When someone is speaking, give them your full attention - no interruptions, no side comments, no phone scrolling.
• Focus on speaking from your own experience rather than hearsay.

Come to meet new friends, express yourself, have fun, and enjoy some great conversations!