Meet new friends groups near Novato, CA
Bay Area Friends
San Rafael, CA
Bay Area Friends (BAF) is a PRIVATE social group for people with genital herpes (HSV-1, HSV-2) who live in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Only our group description is viewable to non-members. With over 2000 members (including our original Yahoo Group members), we are one of the largest Herpes social groups in the USA. We welcome everyone over 18 who is interested in making new friends, sharing fun activities together, and meeting others who share our surprisingly common situation. Bay Area Friends offers a great variety of local, member-organized social events and activities.
Bay Area Friends has NO DUES, NO officers, NO social directors and NO budget. Instead, we rely on ordinary members LIKE YOU to volunteer to organize events, such as Hikes, Dinners, Brunches, Beach Parties, Happy Hours, Speed-Dating, Camping, Picnics, BBQ's, Holiday Parties, Ski Trips, Bike Rides, Dancing, Ball Games, Movies, Bowling, Wine-Tasting, Museum trips, Concerts, Comedy or Theatre trips, and YOU NAME IT! We encourage all members to plan your own events!
Since herpes does not discriminate and neither do we, we are a very diverse group of people. We welcome people of all ages, all ethnicities, all sexual preferences, all professions, religions, political affiliations and outside interests, singles, couples, doesn't matter - we're a great big wonderful mix of people and we make the most of it! We're especially welcoming to folks who are new to this situation and new to the group. We’ll make sure to introduce you to other friendly people and make you feel at home.
Bay Area Friends is NOT a dating service and offers NO personal ads. Our mission is to encourage members to organize fun events, so people can meet each other in person and make new friends. Not everyone in BAF is single and looking. However, many people date people they've met at BAF events, and there have been several marriages as well. If you would prefer to join an online dating site for people with herpes, there are many listed at http://www.datingwithherpes.org
PRIVACY INFORMATION, PLEASE READ!
This BAF Meetup Group is PRIVATE. Only people who have genital herpes (HSV-1, HSV-2) may join. Only approved members can view info about our group events and other content.
For extra privacy, we recommend joining this group using a new, more anonymous email address that you create to use exclusively for H-related online activities including social media sites.. If you decide to use your existing Meetup Profile, please make sure to edit your "Profile" Settings to insure that you "HIDE your Groups" memberships on your profile. Otherwise, people in your non-H Meetup groups may see that you are a member of Bay Area Friends, and if they read our description, they will find out that you belong to a herpes social group. If you want that info to remain private - please edit your "Profile" settings to "Hide Groups."
Joining with Facebook could also reveal your affiliation with our group. Unless you have an H-only Facebook profile (a unique FB profile that you use exclusively for H groups on Facebook), we suggest that you do NOT use Facebook to sign up for this or other H Groups on Meetup.
Many people also prefer to show just their first name but NOT their last name. Other people prefer to use an alias. To make changes to your "name" that other members see, go to your "Account" settings where you can delete your last name or create an alias.
All members of Bay Area Friends must indicate that they have genital herpes (HSV-1, HSV-2) when they request to join the group and answer a few questions on our membership request form. This information is totally private and only visible to our admins/group members. If you do not indicate that you have genital herpes on the form when you request to join, you will not be approved to join Bay Area Friends. This helps insure privacy for all of our members.
Please join us!
Bay Area Monthly Three Principles (3P) Meeting
Novato, CA
(NOTE NAME CHANGE: Formerly Marin Monthly Three Principles Meeting)
Come join your Bay Area colleagues and friends for a monthly online gathering where we share our experience of the inside-out understanding , also known as the Three Principles. Our group's goals
• Provide a homey space (your home + Zoom) for a monthly gathering for people with an interest in the Three Principles to connect and learn.
• A place to make local connections, meet and connect with other Bay Area 3P teachers.
• I hope to have a guest speaker/facilitator at some meetings. (If you know someone with good grounding who would like to share what they've been seeing, please contact me)
What do Sydney Bank's Three Principles (also referred to as The Inside-Out understanding ) teach us ? Three things:
1. That 100% of our experience of life comes from inside us, not from the people, events, and circumstances outside of us.
2. That we are all born with innate happiness and well-being, purpose, wisdom, and resilience. These innate qualities are always available to us, and cannot be harmed by people, events, and circumstances outside of us.
3.. That realizing these facts transforms our experience of life, professionally and personally.
Our monthly meetings are intended for newcomers and veterans of this understanding to share their insights and experience of this understanding
• We meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month (except for April 2020)
• Meetings are 90 minutes in length, and generally start at 6:00PM• We end promptly at 8:30PM.
Please join us if you’d like to meet other people whose lives have been changed by the 3 Principles, to learn more about this revolutionary paradigm, and to share your stories and insights.
YOUR HOST-- GEORGE CARVER
GEORGE CARVER www.georgebcarver.com
After thirty years working as a writer, business executive, and financial advisor, George discovered his calling-- as a coach and teacher. Since becoming a coach in 2013 he has been serving people of from 18-80.
George has been mentored by George and Linda Pransky. He teachers also have included Jamie Smart's Clarity Coach Training, Dr Mark Howard, Michael Neill, Chip Chipman, and Dicken Bettinger. George also has both an MBA and MFA
