Call for Support Group Leaders!!

Hi folks,

As our little community has grown, we've had more and more requests for regular weekly support chats for major concerns and other topics, like Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar disorder, Parenting, and such.

What I'm looking for now are members in good standing, who've been with us for more than 6 months, and who want to help us lead such self-help support chats. You do not need any experience in leading such groups in the past in order to be the leader for these groups. Leaders are simply responsible for being in the group each week and helping kick off groups with a regular check-in, and then discussing a topic of the week. Your group members will help choose each week's topic, and if need be, so can I.

Our goal is to have a half dozen or more regular support group meetings held each and every week on popular topics that people with that condition or concern can check in with, ask questions of other members, and feel the immediate support that a live chat can offer.

Support groups may be held any time between 9:00 am ET until 11:00 pm ET on any day that's convenient for leaders. We will work with such folks (either self-nominated or recommended by others) to help with scheduling and the ins-and-outs of running a weekly chat.

Please PM me with your suggestions or nominations, and I'm happy to work with folks to make this happen.

Thank you!
DocJohn

Just saw this and thought it was a great idea.

My thanks to all who will help make this work....

Thanks again Doc John for facilitating ways to help everyone.

great idea, this will help those of us who come in and can't get responses quick enough from our threads ,besides it's more enjoyable talking in a chat
Angie

He is a sweetheart. Think we'll keep him. Was thinking last night how nice it would be if we could get a vocational counselor who works with people who have mental health issues in here for chat. Think something like that would help a lot of us!

Just an update...

I received many people who've volunteered their time, as well as many possible topics and such. Thank you all for the great response!!

I will be compiling all of this information early next week and will get back to everyone sometime then. Sorry I can't do this sooner, but I got backed up with other work this week.

Thanks!
DocJohn

What a wonderful idea.......another great develoment for the PC community.

I hope at the beginning of each week, a schedule can be presented with the topic & time of each so we can schedule it into our weekly activities.

Thanks DocJohn for the continued growth of ideas here,
Debbie

DocJohn it's a holiday weekend, don't you dare work!

now i see what it`s about .good idea

I just wanted to let everyone know that i offered to host chats of several different items - Parenting, anxiety, borderline personality.

So if anyone has questions or anything let me know And you can always contact me outside of chat too I might not be here much but I am reading

I have to apologize... I still didn't get back to anyone this week as I had intended. Please hang in there, I'll try and get some time to do it in the next week. Sorry!!



DocJohn

No problem. We know you are busy running the show.