HOW NOT TO RUN A TBI SUPPORT GROUP 12/11/06

Based upon personal experience, I thought I would share these tips with you. Please remember when reading through them that I and others have tried to change things around and were unable to. Sometimes, quitting can be really healthy. Especially when the "fun" has been taken out of dysfunctional.

1. Allow people to talk amongst themselves for ten minutes before moving on to "announcements."
2. Make sure "announcements" take up fifty minutes.
3. After announcing when the next Brain Injury Association board meeting is, make sure you continue to bitch about how some folks there aren't doing their jobs well, aren't worth their salaries, and so forth.
4. After announcing the next series of Best Practices Workshops, make sure to tell everyone in explicit detail why you won't be attending.
5. After announcing when the next annual Brain Injury Association conference is, make sure you talk about how they are big meanies for not letting you talk about how to run a support group.
6. Talk about how "no one" wants to do anything for the support group. Make sure to itemize the failed bake sale last year in particular, the speakers you got and only five people showed up that night, and how you have been the leader of the support group for too long.
7. Make blatantly prejudicial statements about non-christians, glbt rights, and anything else that will demonstrate just how wonderful you are. After all, only people who are exactly like you come down with traumatic brain injuries.

So there they are. The reasons why I dropped out.


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