1) Jeanette moderated the meeting and “C” timed

2) Website Update
The website has been re-done and glitches are still being worked out. All important content is the same, only formatting/style has been changed. The biggest change is having the blog more integrated into our main site now.

3) Meeting Guidelines
We haven’t spent much time revamping these. We still want to simplify them more, but just haven’t taken the time needed to do it yet. There is no real “problem” with the guidelines as-is, so we will get to it when we get to it.

1) “R” moderated the meeting and “F” timed

2) Improving our ‘atmosphere’ at meetings
so that new people feel more welcome. We had not been doing introductions before, but we realized that you have to do introductions everywhere else in life, so why not here? It was decided that those who would like, will introduce themselves at the beginning of each meeting when there are newcomers. In addition, if there is a newcomer, one of the regular attenders will take time to check in with the person afterwards, to see how it went for them and get any feedback. Overall, we felt there was a gap in how we welcomed new people, and we want them to feel as welcome as possible.

3) Newsletter Idea
One member wrote in about the idea of starting a NEWSLETTER, so we discussed this idea. Members felt that what we do with the website and blog really encompassed all we do already, and that the work involved in creating a newsletter was something we weren’t ready to take on. However, we as a group are happy to create links from our site to other resources for DD/DID folks. One member is currently working on creating a workbook of sorts (http://workbook.copingincrazyville.com/forum/), and anyone who would like to help in this venture is welcome. Also, let us know if there are resources you are working on or know about that we can post on our site (please keep it related to DD/DID only).

1) “C” moderated the meeting

2) Guidelines
We continued our review of the current meeting guidelines. We are trying to simplify them a little more if we can. Comments welcome.

1) “C” was the moderator for the meeting

2) Meeting Guidelines
We worked on the meeting guidelines, as we would like to review and update them a little. We will just do a little bit at each meeting so that the project doesn’t take up too much time. Once the project is complete, we will post the revised guidelines. Again, we mainly want to streamline them a little more. We don’t really want to make huge changes as we think the guidelines provide safety that we need in order to succeed as a group.