Peer Group Chat // Creating Calm Amongst Chaos // Thursday 14th September 2023, 7-8:30PM AEST

@amber22 have you got the link for it?

@Snowie I can’t find it anywhere

https://client.chatwee.com/popout/5fe12dcb78c130638b151232 @Snowie

https://client.chatwee.com/popout/5fe12dcb78c130638b151232 @Glisten

@TideisTurning @tyme @amber22 Thank you for the excellent PGC.
Why is the last 2023 PG transcript 8 June - Let’s Get Creative?
Am I looking at the wrong transcripts?

Hey! @Glisten

They will be updated very soon, we have a backlog of them that will be coming on the website in the next coming weeks 🙂

Thanks so much for coming along to the Peer Group Chat last night, I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

@amber22 Thank you very much 🙂

Hi Everyone,

Something I've found helpful in creating calm for myself is to think of calm as an acronym; CALM. I borrowed this idea from an episode of Jane The Virgin, and the idea is this; for each letter of the acronym, think of at least one thing or activity beginning with that letter which might help calm you, particularly in a high stress/ emergency situation. For example:  

(the text on the image reads; Cheese, Abuela (character’s grandma), Lists & Monkey)

The CALM acronym of another character in the episode looked like this:

C-Cellphone (American show… Although, Mobile could fit under M)

A- Avocado Mask

L- Lavender

M- Mirrors

Note too, what makes up your acronym can change and evolve over time. For example, Jane (the main character)’s ‘M’ goes from monkey (her childhood toy), to Michael (her partner), to Mateo (her child).

All that said, I’m really curious to hear from anyone who would like to share, what might make up your CALM acronym? Please be particularly mindful of our anonymity guideline when sharing with this one and feel free to omit letters whose answers may compromise anonymity for you (i.e. if a letter corresponds with the name of a loved one) 😊 @Glisten @Snowie @Former-Member @Dark_Olena @_PixieSolstice_ @Blackbird11 @Appleblossom @Shaz51 @Oaktree @Jacques

Thank you @TideisTurning CALM for me looks like...

Creativity

Allow space

Look to nature

Mindfulness

Craft

Animals

Looking out to sea

Memories of happy times