RELEASE TRAUMA & RESET YOUR LIFE
Book Club
SAFE SPACE
Holding SAFE SPACE for our book club is at the top of our priorities. Being a part of the LOCAL BOOK CLUB MEET UP is through an application process.
Meet Ups are currently limited in size and has a group facilitator. The group facilitator monitors the time, provides the space location, oversees notifying the group of upcoming meet ups, books, changes, the set up and goes over the flow of the meet up.
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Location will be emailed to group participants of the book club.
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Book club meet up is by invitation only to enough time to share and ensure the privacy / safety of the group. If your interested in attending, contact polly@thegreybadass.com
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Arrive at least 20 minutes early to the location to grab your coffee, breakfast, pastry, mingle and catch up! Time and Location are given privately to those attending.
Questions That Make You Think are questions brought to the table based on questions used in other successful book clubs. This helps the group share, not feel put on the spot, express different points of view, opens others up to see the book differently and keeps the flow going. While we love debates, we don't in this book club. This is an insightful share based on the questions provided. Staying on book topic is a high priority.
NONNEGOTIABLES:
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Attendees must be sober, not under the influence, emotionally intelligent, kind and able to be present.
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Negative comments, racism, passive-aggressive behavior or anything along these lines are not permitted in any of the groups.
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No selling or promoting personal products, goods or services allowed.
You don't have to be an avid reader...
Reading takes a lot of personal accountability, self control and willingness to work out an areas of our life we feel we need to either fill with other things. There's a surge of readers now buying physical books that you can hold in your hands and pass on to others. While there's huge benefits to audible books (some of us are auditory learners) and digital formats for convenience, the hidden benefit of reading a physical book exercises areas of ourselves most of us find uncomfortable.
I began a local book club with a few of my closest friends and my oldest daughter. Two are sisters that I grew up with and attribute me being alive, finishing school and having a place to sleep in high school. One of my friends, lived next door with her parents when my oldest was in jr high school. It's expanded and a community is being born!
Resource Blog:
BOOK LINE UP
FEB
1st Book Club Meet Up
Sunday, Feb 9th 2025
11am @ XXX
*come early
MARCH
2nd Book Club Meet UP
Sunday, March 9th 2025
11am @ XXX
*arrive early to order food / coffee
APRIL
3rd Book Club Meet Up
This meet up has 2 books. Animal Farm (a banned book) could be read in 2 days.
MAY
Book 4
VIVI IL MOMENTO by Mary Belle
Romance / importance of learning to live in the moment
PLUS
UNFU*CK YOURSELF discussion
Chapt 1 & 2
How books are chosen
There is a flow to books. Books are in a cycle. If a book is short, we might combine two books for the next meet up. Books for the year is planned out by the facilitator. You are not limited to reading a physical hard copy; some choose audible books. This is up to the "reader". No commission is being made from reading or suggesting the books.
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SELF HELP, MOTIVATIONAL
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VARIETY: SCI-FI, ROMANCE, ETC
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CLASSIC or BANNED BOOKS (banned in from school curriculum)
JUNE
BOOK 5
THE OUTSIDERS by S.E. Hinton
banned book / Gang Violence
PLUS
UNFU*CK YOURSELF discussion
Chapt 3 & 4
JULY
BOOK 6
THE PRICE OF A CHILD
by Lorene Cary
true story / Slavery
PLUS
UNFU*CK YOURSELF discussion
Chapt 5 & 6
AUG
BOOK 7
THE DHARMA BUMS
by Jack Kerouac
Counter Culture & Freedom
PLUS
UNFU*CK YOURSELF discussion
Chapt 7 & 8
SEPT
TO BE REVEALED
BOOK 8
PLUS
UNFU*CK YOURSELF discussion
Chapt 9