Posted by fallsfall on December 9, 2005, at 18:57:47
In reply to Re: waaaaay different ideas about Babble » Dr. Bob, posted by Dinah on December 9, 2005, at 17:08:34
I'm hoping that they will have questions for us. And we can just answer them the best we can. And if we don't know the answer we can say "I don't know". Or even "I'll ask that question on the board - you can look there for the answer".
We could have a set of generic "questions" to start with or if things get slow:
How did you find Babble?
How often do you read/post?
What role does Babble play in your life?
What has Babble helped you with?
What problems has Babble caused?
What is the difference between online support and IRL support?
Does your therapist know about Babble, what do they think of it?
What would you do if you didn't have Babble?
What do we talk about on Babble?We could each ask our own therapist/pdoc what questions they would want answered if they went to something like this.
We could have a whole list of these questions, so if they don't have any questions for us, we can get the conversation started.
We can also ask THEM if they have any experience with their patients reading things online.
When I think of it as a conversation rather than a presentation, it is a little less scary for me.
As for splitting up into groups:
I think that no poster should have to do a group by themself if they don't want to. Probably many of us would rather have at least 2 posters to a group. Maybe we should say that the "normal" number of posters in a group will be at least 2.
I don't like the idea of people wandering from one group to another. Too much potential for making one of us feel unloved. We don't need that!
Maybe we can come up with a couple of scenarios so that when we find out how many posters/attendees there are we will already have a plan:
1. If there are fewer than 10 attendees, we stay as one group.
2. If there are lots of attendees and not too many posters, we ask for subjects that they would like covered, and then posters who want to talk about that topic form a group around that.
3. Or the posters pair up (or whatever) and chose the topic that they would most like to talk about and then the attendees can go to the group that is most interesting to them.
4. Or if there are a few number of groups and the discussion time isn't too short, we could divide them into groups and have the poster teams rotate through the groups so they get to talk to more than one poster.
5. If a group feels like they are in "trouble", there should be some way to call Dr. Bob over and he should help get the discussion going (is that OK, Dr. Bob?)
Dr. Bob, when the time comes, can you find out how big a room they are giving us? That should say something about the maximum number of attendees.
If nobody comes we'll have our own party.
Dr. Bob can remind them before we split up that we come to Babble because we have mental health issues - so they should use their best doctor manners with us! And we ALWAYS have the right to refuse to answer a question if we are uncomfortable. I think that we and the doctors really will be wanting the same thing - to increase their understanding of online support groups - so we'll all be working in the same direction.
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