I am not certain as to what happened in Sunday's afternoon meeting at the Presbyterian Church.  It was very puzzling to me, but what I have gradually come to realize is that there is a suspicion about this format that is quite justifiable.  So I need to make certain corrections and make reassurance that I can deliver something that is both positive and useful.   There were many questions about what the subject was or could be.  There were questions about the previous groups and  how disjointed  they seemed to be.
The next group meeting will be at my home on Thursday, January 15 at 6:30 PM.  I think we will be  having chili but I have to con  some cooks into the idea of cooking chili.  Meanwhile I will be thinking about some of the suggestions that I have gotten from others after the group that we might do on that Thursday so as to make it easier and more acceptable to enter into the  supportive person process.
I think that it is time that we explore the support person group process because I see my friends and acquaintances as becoming more ego driven and therefore becoming more fearful.  But on the other hand they rightly fear being pulled into a cult or something too  unfamiliar  and too threatening to one's personal integrity.

In my humble opinion the support person group process is designed to help people who are becoming more ego driven and more insulated for a variety of reasons.  Some of this in a distrust of the group and particularly a group that is so ill-defined at this point  as the supportive person or group.  I understand that fear because I certainly have that fear as well.  But in the words of Pogo" we have met the enemy and it is us"