It's Time to Begin PEG

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It's Time to Begin PEG
Greetings Parents and Friends,

On behalf of Larry and myself I am so happy to announce the first scheduled meeting of the Parent Exploratory Group (PEG). We would like to hold this first meeting:

Date:   Tuesday, June 19, 2001
Time:   6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Place: Second Blessing Christian Book Store
            25 East Main Street, Mechanicsburg (full story and directions)

We very much want PEG to be your meeting. To find out more about the Parent Exploratory Group just click on the "Our Projects" link.

And what would we like to do at the first PEG meeting?

Larry and I see this first meeting as an orientation session for you and for us. We would like to give you some of our ideas, but again to gain your valuable input on what you would like PEG to be and to do for you.

Here are some general suggestions we would like to offer for this meeting:

1. We would like to start off with some introductions and an overview of what Larry and I see that PEG is and can offer to you. Then we would like your input for what you would like these meetings to be.

2. We have some ideas for activities we can pursue: One idea would be to select appropriate books or or other reading materials pertaining affective skills, read sections of the chosen material between meetings and come back together at meetings to discuss and expand on what we have read. Another idea would be to teach Connie Dembrowsky's new (and very good), "Mastering Anger - Resolving Conflict" curriculum. Larry and I would like to demonstrate a selection from this curriculum at the first meeting.

3. In this and future meetings we would like to allow time for discussions with the group of issues or questions that you might have. Perhaps it is a lesson from the Parent Seminar that you would like to review, or maybe there is a situation with your teenager that you would like the group to explore, or maybe you have a great idea or insight to share. This is our time and we are here to help and support each other.

4. In this and future meetings we would like to ask you, "What can we do better next time?" This will be our time to make comments on the meeting -- what we like and what we maybe don't like -- and set direction together for what we do next.

5. Finally, we would like to discuss among us options and locations for holding and hosting future PEG meetings.

This is what we have for now. Please feel free to provide your input on these or other ideas that you might have. Again, we sincerely wish for each meeting of PEG to be your meeting as you would like it to be. We really want to hear from you and for these meetings to support you.

I realize that some of you on this distribution list may be out of the geographic area, however, we want you to be included in what we are doing. I will do my best to bring items from PEG to the Affective Skills Web Site for you also to see and read.

I am so excited to now add PEG to our new community of parents and friends, I hope you are too and that you will choose to attend. I can't wait to meet and talk with each of you. If, by chance, you can't attend this first meeting of PEG, we will continue to announce future meetings on e-mail and through the Affective Skills Web Site. Please feel free to come and join us at any time. You are always welcome.

If you have questions, please write back. It's not mandatory, but if you do plan to come to the PEG meeting on June 19 could you drop a short message back to AffectiveSkill@aol.com confirming your plans to attend? This will help us a bit with planning.

Sincerely,

John Borland

Affective Skills Web Site

Last Modified: March 21, 2003