Manuals and Workbooks for Starting and Running Support Groups

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Shared Leadership Workbook PDF

This workbook is a planning tool to help you decide, clarify and/or redefine your group’s shared leadership structures.

Self-Help 101 Workshop: Understanding Self-help and Starting a Peer Support Group PDF

This workshop covers:
What is a self-help support group?
How self-help approaches complement other forms of support.
Why people come to groups and how to motivate them to come to the group.
Steps for starting a group, including planning stages and holding your first meeting.
Stages of group development and why they are important.
Ideas for evaluation and maintaining momentum.

Starting/Running Support Groups

Has several pages on starting and running support groups including logistics, promotion, facilitating, what support groups can and can not do, potential problems planning the meeting etc. Very comprehensive, but need to scroll down the page to find the links.