April 2008 Business

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. In general, we feel like there are too many guidelines, and would like to streamline things a little more. The guidelines can also feel a little overwhelming/intimidating to first time visitors – so narrowing things down a little more may help new people to feel a little more comfortable.

We identified guidelines that we for sure want to keep the same, some that we feel are unnecessary (like “no smoking”, when the entire building doesn’t allow smoking anyway), some that seem to be redundant because they are already stated somewhere else somehow, and some that we would like to mesh together somehow or re-state in a clearer way. No changes were made yet. Only identification of various issues. We will work on this a little bit at each meeting in the future.

3) Support Info
One member handed out information on websites geared toward DID people (these are not connected to New Landscape):

“Coping in Crazyville”
www.copingincrazyville.com/index/

Pages by and for littles:
www.littles.copingincrazyville.com

Social Board for NY area people with dissociative disorders (there is a link from our home page too):
www.copingincrazyville.com/ny-multi-social

Online support for supporters of people with dissociative disorders (there is a link from our home page too):
www.copingincrazyville.com/supportersforum