The Space

Welcome to The Space!
The group welcomes everyone from 30… all the way up to 100

What's The Space?
The Space is short for holding space for each other. This group will center around emotional health and wellbeing. The vision is to create space to hold our stories, the small ones and the bigger ones.
Please understand I am not a therapist and this is not group therapy! I do believe we can strengthen our emotional wellbeing through vulnerability and embodiment.
Vulnerability it doe snot mean you have to share anything that you do not want to share. Sometimes small doses of vulnerability can already have a big impact.
Embodiment means we show up as a group and we learn to hold space for each other, which if done well can be such a powerful force in doing good to our hurting hearts.

The events will be limited to 10 people given we can't have a group discussion beyond that. Again you will never be asked to share anything you prefer not to.

I will try a few different topics for the first events to understand what works for us and what resonates with us as a group.
I might have a few events that are limited in who can attend, like "men only" or "only for people with ADHD".

Here are some guidelines in how we want to interact with each other:

• Anything shared in the group must stay in the group. We ask for the strictest confidence, meaning nothing can be shared with others, that includes you friend and spouse. Its also not ok to share a story you heard in the group by not mentioning who said it. That’s still a breach of confidence. If hats an issue, please do not join this group.
• Our primary goal is to extend kindness and encouragement towards each other. There is no space for judgement.
• We are not here to fix, teach or correct each other! This is a big one and will require some learning for some of us.

Overtime we want to learn:

• being comfortable holding a certain emotional “dynamic” in the room for a minute or two.
• to better name what we feel, be more specific in the emotion (rather than limited to happy, sad and content)

I would like to thank Michael for allowing us to use his meetup subscription, which is the reason Michael shows as organizer. Please note that Michael is not engaged in leading this group.