Try the following:
- Address the group as a whole. Avoid directing your words to one or two people.
- Remember that it is most useful to listen, hear, and understand.
- Avoid giving advice.
- Remember that a speaker is Probably doing her or his best to be honest.
- Avoid interrupting another. Your group has a way of dealing with those who who damage your practice.
- Keep expenses to a minimum. Everyone helps to take care of necessary expenses. Do your part.
- Everyone helps with the expenses as they can.
- Really listen to what another is saying. Improved understanding is a major aim of your group.
- Learn to listen well. You will gain greater listening skills.
- Encourage everyone to to speak at each opportunity. The words of each are gifts for us all.
- Usually limit speaking time to one or two minutes. It is great to have time to speak more than once at a single meeting.
- Remember that focusing dialogue on personal experience is good practice.
- In the very beginning get 7 or 8 interested persons to commit to 3 or 4 consecutive meetings.
Practice makes perfect.
More to come.
RCS
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