Jennifer Glacel, LCSW, RPT-S, an Autistic therapist, will be facilitating a regular gathered meeting for helpers as a place for people to come together and be held while also holding others in order to get grounded and replenished. These groups will be run using the below norms and expectations, derived from Quaker process work and further modified from Parker Palmer's Circle Processing as well as talking stick and council processing structures.

These groups are not mental health groups nor are they consultation groups and Jennifer will not be acting in her capacity as a psychotherapist. Jennifer's role is to help set the norms of the group, offer prompts, and help anchor the space.

To sign up to receive the zoom link for Jennifer's next meeting please complete this form. While meetings are scheduled to be an hour, if only one or two people attend they may end up being shorter in length. 

Advanced sign up is required via the above form. Pay-what-you-can contributions are appreciated and are via Paypal (paypal.me/jwglacel). The suggested contribution ranges from $25 to $5. No one will be turned away due to financial hardship. It is hoped that those who are financially comfortable will consider contributing more to help sustain these financially inclusive gatherings.

To find other gathered meetings for helpers, please sign up at https://www.whatashrinkthinks.com/gathered-meeting for access to the google calendar.

More information about Gathered Meetings

For more information see https://www.whatashrinkthinks.com/gathered-meeting

The purpose of a Gathered Meeting is to deepen our presence to self and other. You will be engaging in this contemplative practice of deepening presence through speaking, listening, and processing while letting go needs that arise to control, fix, or judge what is spoken or heard. 

 Meeting Norms

• We are gathering to share our personal subjective experiences, needs, hopes, fears, and yearnings, to hold them up alongside each other and to glimpse a larger view, and to learn more about ourselves and others as the group surveys the questions and ideas that are offered as prompts.
• Speak from the heart.
• Listen from your heart.
• Be lean of expression so that the space is held for everyone to speak.
• Discomfort is to be expected as we disrupt our default ways of processing, and we are each responsible for processing our own discomfort.
• Self-regulation is celebrated: Ignore, fidget, doodle, space out, day dream, meditate, take notes, close your eyes and breathe whenever you need or want to for any reason.  
• It is not anyone’s job in this circle to critique or persuade any other participant.
• This is not a space to engage in objective statements
• This is a rest and process-centered space. Not a problem-fixing space.
• If you hear something that makes you uncomfortable, that you disagree with, that you want to challenge – it is not your job to correct other people’s processes. If you are uncomfortable I would like you to think about times that you have done or said something similar, phases in your own development when you were learning something, and the spaces where you still have plenty to learn. If the impulse to argue with another individual rises up the call is to consider your own struggles, your own failures, your own growth, your own needs for yourself and your needs in the moment from the entire circle - and to sit in relationship to that.