Good morning @CheerBear, I am more awake now than I was last night.  I have to say, when the person said the unbelievably unhelpful thing they said at the change-the-world adventure, thinking of them as a melted snowflakey banana head helped me to have a tiny little giggle to myself and thereby avoid descending into chaos in that public place. I am definitely putting that phrase in my toolkit for how to self-soothe when people say super gigantically triggering things. 

I totally get what you said about the DBT adventure being energizing. I find that too. I think like you, it gives me a sense of inspiration and motivation. As I think we all know by now, my lack of employment prospects is a super gigantic issue in my world. Thus to me, the DBT adventure is kind of a "job" which gives me a sense of purpose etc. I super love the fact that you are a bouncy energizer care bear. 

CheerBear it made me giggle that you commented that you think you are the odd one out (because you bounce and @Zoe7 and I plod). So...you think you are the odd one out. Zoe has said before that she thinks she is the odd one out. I don't feel like the odd one out...which makes me the odd one out because I'm the only one that doesn't feel like the odd one out. So...what does it mean if we are all the odd ones out? What are we the odd ones out of? Methinks all three of us are just odd. 

I think the open questions idea will super help break down the sense of a private conversation - especially if we've also established that it is ok to tag people into the post. And once we start the actual doing, I figured that we would be sharing about how we are going with the doing (as much or as little as we want to share in Forum Land). 

I will now wander off and see if I can find where the link to the handouts is hiding online...