There are several purposes in the workshops not the least of which is getting to know oneself better.  I need come up with fewer surprises in my own mind's  inner workings.  One day they feel fine and the next day they feel suicidal.  We need to know more about this kind of problem.  There is also the feeling of being alone in a world made up of many friendly people.  

     So what is the supportive person?  Can we really effectively support each other and if so who were going to be people that choose us to be supportive are we choose to be supportive? I truly believe that we can find a way to consistently be supportive. Carl Rogers once commented that marriages were failing at a high rate because each spouse was expecting more of each other that was ever there to begin with; so divorce ensued.

     The workshop is designed as a safe way for each of us in participating in the supportive person process to feel safe and to feel as though there is something built into this that is protective. Can we work through our veneer of ego armor and offer up to each other  a glimpse of the  inner-self? Having found that can we be supportive?

I have given some copies of the book the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts to several folks hoping they would find it is useful as I did.  I have invited Dr. Shelby Havens to be my co-author of the  Janus group guide.  She has remarkable credentials and a grasp of what we are doing that to is beyond my expectations.   She has received her PhD in nursing which I see very little of outside the halls of academia.  I have fretted over the problem of getting in the middle of this getting sick so I hope that the worry over getting sick will subside now.  I am hoping some folks will sign up for the workshops on 1 February in 15 February because I do not have any idea about who is coming until I get some feedback to say they will definitely be there.