EXPRESSION OF INTEREST - Online Peer Support Group - Parents with ME/CFS

We are operating in a pilot phase at the moment and this group is not currently running.

It is SUPER helpful for us to note expressions of interest though. Please join the wait list if you are interested in joining a parents group.

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What is ‘Online Peer Support - Parents with ME/CFS’?

Online Peer Support for Parents with ME/CFS is an 8x week online support group for 8 to 12 people with a professional facilitator hosted by Emerge Australia. It takes place in our virtual meeting room over Zoom. We have 4 core themes for our online community groups: Patient Support, Carer Support, Community Building and Learning. The aim of this group is to help you to connect with other people who have a shared experience of living with ME/CFS who are also parents (mainly of younger children). There is no set length of time that people should have been living with ME/CFS to be 'eligible' to join the group but it is not the right place for people who are newly diagnosed.

Further information on how to join the group via Zoom will be made available once you have purchased a ticket.

Why should I attend?

Accessing peer support - talking to people who 'get it' - is one of the primary requests that we receive at Emerge Australia. We have designed this pilot program to provide a safe space - with a facilitator - where people who who live with ME/CFS and are also parents (mostly to younger children) can meet and talk for an hour.

What will happen in the group?

In this group you will find:

• Professional facilitator to guide conversation
• 8 facilitated meetings - every other week for one hour
• Option to continue to meet after the course - your facilitator will help you to establish ground rules and come up with a plan to continue with the group
• Social interaction - this group is not structured therapy and will try not to dwell on negative or medical chat
• The group will have access to a private sub-forum on the Emerge Australia Community Forum where chat can continue between sessions

Morning Classes (for info) - All timings are as per Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra (AEDT or AEST according to start date of group)

• 10:45am session open
• 11:00am group meeting commences
• 12:00pm group meeting ends

Afternoon Classes (for info) - All timings are as per Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra (AEDT or AEST according to start date of group)

• 1:45pm session open
• 2:00pm group meeting commences
• 3:00pm group meeting ends

We operate a waitlist and strongly encourage you to sign up on the waitlist if you are interested and no places are currently available. If we have enough people on the waitlist we may be able to host a group sooner.

New start dates for this group (newly established groups) are added throughout the year. Please note, you will receive the Zoom link for the class the day before the scheduled date.

For more information or if you have questions, please contact information@emerge.org.au