Peer Support Call

Zoom link: zoom.us/j/170291400

Or call: 301 715 8592.

The current pandemic has put what feels like everything on hold; which has us feeling a range of emotions that can be hard to deal with alone. We want to create a space to listen and share our feeling with one another in this stressful time. Peer support is a widely-used, effective methodology to deal with such stresses. Our goal is to find clarity, comfort, and connectedness during this crisis. This peer support call we will practice taking timed, uninterrupted turns listening to each other with encouragement to honestly express our feelings. Hopefully this becomes a tool that you can use with others in the future, when things get stressful.

We will meet on four consecutive Tuesdays, March 24, 31, April 7 and 14. You are welcome to attend any one or more sessions. After a general introduction on the first evening, we will cover specific topics depending on the interest of the group, e.g. feeling good about ourselves, dealing with terror and discouragement, overcoming personal barriers, eliminating our inevitable racism, sexism, and other oppressive habits, etc.

This meeting will be facilitated by Jim who is a part of the DC chapter Regen Working Group; he is a life-long social change activist, he taught Organizational Psychology at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He has been leading peer support groups for social change activists for decades, most recently in the climate movement since 2011.

This session will run from 8:00 PM 9:30 PM