15 min Group

This writer does many groups all over! This writer has been doing groups for years and years. Never in all of my groups have I had the opportunity to do a group that last a whopping 15 minuets. Is it possible that I have my group framework down, that I can help people stay in the moment with only 15 minuets of lecture? No, that is not feasible, but worth a comment. In each group we teach the power of thought, which starts with self, then focus on how to balance our thoughts, utilizing our higher power, and learning how to replace our addiction behavior with fun! A model that teaches self to work through struggle, and stay in the moment. Well, during this group yesterday, I was in a locked facility working with younger clients who were being excused to come to my group. As the bell rung, (more like a siren) 8 individuals piled in our small little room. I introduced myself, and shared my passion to helping all types of people struggling with addiction. We began our customary meet and great with introducing ourselves. This took 5 minutes. Then I began to share how we can control out thoughts in any setting. One of our group members stood up, just like that, and said, "Mr Tod, will our groups last longer then 15 minuets?" Then another group member, asked the same thing. I looked perplexed, and slowly went over to the black board, and wrote group is for 45 minuets. They all of sudden cheered. Then, dinggggggggggggggggggg, the bell rung, and the guard opened up the door and said count! I'm going, our group just started sir, we have another half hour at least for our class. The guard, looked at me and said, " We have have a missing inmate, group is over in 30 seconds, unless you want to continue your group in their cell." I thought long, and hard over that one, I could see the class was shocked that I did not reply right away, the guard was even more shocked. I said, see you in two weeks gang, start your journals, and make today positive! I'm walking out though the security, and the guard comes walking fast towards me. I look at him, he looks at me, and he says, "see you next week", I reply, "thank you for the 15 minutes". It is what it is. Stay in your health, stay in the moment.