We (the co-facilitators of the grief support group) received this email from Fearless Leader today:

Dear Incredible, Fabulous, Extraordinary, Wise, Fun, Special, Awesome, Gifted, Amazing, Unique, Bright, Compassionate, Giving, Dedicated, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, Co-Facilitators!!!

OK, now that I have you all warm and fuzzy just let your thinking drift into the question “Do you want to help with the next group that runs 10/5 – 11/30, Thursdays, 4-6 pm?”

My response:

I’ve given this a lot of thought and, based on my project list at work, I just don’t see how I can do it. You have no idea how much I want to do this, but I don’t see that “overwhelmed with too many things on my plate” issue letting up any time soon. After January, I shouldn’t have such a heavy work load and now have processes in place to help alleviate some of the ebb and flow of my job (mainly flow! I’d love more ebb!).

Please, please, please keep me in mind for future facilitating though-

Sigh...

I am excited though, about a *new* adventure I'll be having with Fearless Leader and I'm going to need help on this. Fearless leader has asked if it might be appropriate to reach out from my blog. My response? Hell yes! I know I have several readers who fall into the category we're reaching out to with this new project.

We're going to start a grief blog together, mainly to reach out to the younger (think of the word 'younger' as a relative term- you know, someone who likes to be on the computer -vs- afraid of it) people that don't have time or feel comfortable in coming to a group setting. I'd REALLY appreciate volunteers to help me formulate ideas for this blog.

Some of the ideas I have:

• A place where someone can write the story and place a picture (if they want to) of their loved one


• A section containing articles to help work through grief


• Resources


• Links to blogs of people who are writing about their own grief experiences (not sure if this will fly with legal, though...)


• Message board (maybe separated by type of loss- parent, spouse, child, etc.)


• Articles from Fearless Leader (haven't passed this one by her yet- but man, she's one smart lady!)

Contact me or in comments if you would like to help me with ideas and help critique things when they're done? Of course, if you help, you'll be given access to the site and have those resources available to you as well.