O.P.E.N support & community: our 11th birthday meetup! 🎂

It's our 11th birthday! Can you believe it? We've been doing this on the first Thursday of the month for eleven years!!

Please bring cake or another celebratory drink or snack to the call - we can all share our snacks virtually!

This month's pre-agreed topic is going to be last month's topic, that we didn't get chance to discuss. Specifically: "Changes I'd like to make" - to yourselves... could be life stuff, relationship things, friendship things. Maybe also we could talk about what's holding us back from making these changes and offer each other support about this.

Looking forward to seeing you all!

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Yorkshire O.P.E.N is a community for people in or curious about ethically non-monogamous relationships.

Once a month we come together to have a chat over some drinks and support each other with building great relationships, in a safe and welcoming environment.

Newcomers are always welcome! We're a friendly community and we have new faces almost every month. If you're nervous about coming along for the first time, get in touch with the organisers and we can arrange to meet you beforehand.

Owing to the ongoing pandemic, all our meetups are happening online on Zoom until further notice. It should be the same link every month, which you can find on this event page.

You can join with or without a camera or microphone - if you'd like to just listen or communicate using the text chat, you're welcome to do that. And please feel free to use a fake name.

Events often look a bit like this:

7.00: social time (bring your own crafts!)

7.30: introductions and a chance to air what's on your mind about relationships in a structured way

8.00: a roundtable chat about a topic (related to relationships) agreed by the community in advance

8.45: break and social time

9.00: support session - a chance for people to help each other with specific questions, problems or concerns

9.45: social time if you'd like to stay on the call

10.00: close

If you've not been before, please check out our website: https://www.y-open.org.uk/ which has info about what to expect at a meetup, as well as the basic ground rules we put in place to keep this event a safe space.

Hope to see you all there!