Good news everyone,
As you may have heard in my Second Tuesday talks, I am starting a support group for geeks with depression and anxiety. I have found that while therapy is indispensable for coping with these conditions, it can be quite expensive in the long term.
The goal of the group is to provide a long-term and sustainable resource for people with depression and/or anxiety to learn and share skills for coping with these challenges.
As I understand it, there are three major hurdles to starting the group:
Finding a time and place that is quiet enough and private enough to meet. The lounge area at The Hive is the obvious choice, but at times it can be neither quiet nor private. If the Hive is to be the venue, the group’s meetings should probably fit into the natural traffic pattern for the Hive’s membership. The group cannot monopolize the space.
Finding a date, frequency, and duration for meetings that works for the most attendees. Tuesday was chosen for the weekly Hive meeting because all hackerspaces meet on Tuesdays. Weekly meetings were decided on for the same reason. Personally, my work schedule changes from month to month, so a fixed day of the week (other than a Saturday) is tough for me. I don’t want my crazy schedule to prevent meetings from happening. Which leads to the third obstacle…
Finding a format/protocol for a meeting that works. The Hive’s Tuesday meeting format is well known, to the point that pretty much anyone can run one. I would like to find a simple, but effective format for meetings so that they can be run in my absence. I would also like to document the format, so that meetings can be reproduced at other hackerspaces in the future.
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Meeting nights would be a hard night in my opinion given the tours after meetings, and how crowded the hive us in general. Possibly we could just go on some random dates to get things in motion and claim the lounge on non meeting nights.
Chris, you're amazing! Kudos <3 I'm still in Seattle but if there is anything I can do from here to help, let me know!
Craig
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sooo.. when do people want to start
Chris, you're amazing! Kudos <3 I'm still in Seattle but if there is anything I can do from here to help, let me know!
Craig
I just realized I didn't post the outcome from the support group meeting we had on Saturday.
We are going to meet Wednesdays at 6pm. I know it's short notice for today so don't feel pressure to come. It'll be there next week as well :-)