Safer Support Groups: Facilitation for belonging, inclusion & empowerment

The Crisses

On YouTube: https://youtu.be/Sd0h-hdn7nY

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Content Warning: Mention various undesirable and toxic individual and group behaviors, and the problems caused by idolizing group owners, organizers or facilitators. Also mentions poor group boundaries and issues around shaming or exiling group members that we touched on in our 2022 conference sessions.

Plurals start many groups but don't necessarily understand how to run safer groups that provide an atmosphere that helps encourage learning, healing & growth. This session will explicitly discuss what we get from support groups, pitfalls, facilitation skills, handling various undesriable behaviors, how to create a culture of saftey & empowerment, and some of the steps in creating a support group. The hope is that we can foster belongingness and help each other heal.

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Bio The Crisses

They/them/their, https://crisses.org

Life coach & plural activists, sharing selves-help materials mostly on building & maintaining internal community for fellow plurals, admin of the http://kinhost.org wiki site, with courses available at https://pluralityresource.org and coaching services available through http://liberatedlifecoaching.com. System curriculum vitae and link hub at https://crisses.org.

The Crisses are an autistic, disabled, non-binary, gender-fluid, plural-identified quoigenic DID-diagnosed polyfragmented modular system with about 157+ system members of a wide variety of types. They are geeks, authors, content creators, instructors, healers, coaches, and mental health advocates. They have hEDS, CIDP, Reynaud’s syndrome, several other related issues, and are transition opportunists. They live in upstate New York in the USA, and moonlight as a pet sitter.

Aliessa of Crisses is our "elected" core. She's a centuries-old but still tree-young dryad who believes that love wins out over everything. She's our heart, inspiration, and one of our most adored headmates.

Almerissa of Crisses is a system protector, the first known system introject to front, and is mainly in charge of internal landscaping in our system.

Buck of Crisses, a cis-male protector and former internal persecutor, is willing to throw his privilege around and make waves to open doors for those with less access and privilege, and has been taking a leadership role in the Crisses’ advocacy and activism efforts.

Chrissy of Crisses is one of our deeper manager residents who can help connect people for internal communication and conduits.

Dreal of Crisses is one of their crew of healers, a shamanic & reiki practitioner, and trained life coach.

Faun of Crisses, Buck’s twin sister, as far as we know was born to this body and created our derivation maps, having been around for a very long time.

Justin of Crisses is a joker of all trades, doesn''t seem to take much seriously except the things he does, and has a rule of poking fun at himself or inanimate objects (often talking to them and asking them to please stay put), not people.

Moonlite of Crisses, deaf and mute, takes the role of an internal self-helper, speaks American Sign Language (ASL) as a second language, writes, and works with Chrissy, Star & Dreal on self-help materials.

Star of Crisses is another healer, a wise woman herbalist, reiki practitioner, and life coach as well as one of the first people to appear in the Crisses’ system.

Plural system hub: https://crisses.org