IN THIS PODCAST, WE COVER:

01:00    Introduction: Can Anyone Lead a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® Study Group?

02:55    Are You Ready to Lead?

04:21    Staying Connected With Your Group

05:31    Planning: Tips and Tools
            Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends

11:14    Anybody Can Lead a Study Group With the Gateway Guide in Hand
            Joette’s Learning Center
             Joette’s Study Group, Find Your New Study Group Friends
             The Academy of Practical Homeopathy®

14:52    Again, the Top Tips for Successful Study Groups

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

Joette Calabrese on YouTube (Monday Night Lives)
PracticalHomeopathy.com
Gateway to Practical Homeopathy®: A Guided Study Group Curriculum
Find a Practical Homeopath® (for consultations or for educational study groups led by my Discovery Ambassadors)
Joette’s Mighty Members

Kate:

This is the Practical Homeopathy® Podcast, episode number 142.

Joette:

Hi, I’m Joette Calabrese, and I welcome you to our health care movement — yours, mine and the countless men and women across the globe who have retaken control of their families’ health with Practical Homeopathy®.

So, for the next few minutes, let’s link our arms as I demystify homeopathy — what was once considered an esoteric paradigm — into an understandable, reproducible, safe and effective health care solution available to all.

This is the medicine you’ve been searching for — my unique brand of homeopathy, Practical Homeopathy®.

Introduction: Can Anyone Lead a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® Study Group?

Kate: (01:00 )

Hi everyone. Welcome to the podcast. We are back, and we’re so glad that you’ve joined us today. I’m Kate, and today I’m here with Michele.

Hi, Michele.

Michele:

Hi, Kate.

Kate:

Hi. It’s fun to do a podcast together. We’ve known each other for quite a long time. And for those people who don’t know you, I would love for you to just give a little introduction about yourself.

Michele:

Sure. I live in Chico, California. My name’s Michele Kumangai, and I have raised five boys, homeschooled all the way through. Now they’re out on their own being independent. Well, some of them are.

And I am so excited to be here today to share about Gateway study groups, and it’s actually how Kate and I met. So, thank you for having me, Kate.

Kate:

Yes, yes. I’m excited to share with the listeners who may not know much about the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups, a little bit more information about them. And our title today is “Can Anyone Lead a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® Study Group?” So, we’re going to get into that, but first, I thought we should tell people how we met and how the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups have really affected our lives.

So, we are dear friends now, and we met in a Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study group that I started leading, oh gosh, I think it was about 12 years ago or so. So, you joined, and then you kept coming to the study groups that I led and …

Michele:

Yeah, you couldn’t get rid of me.

Kate:

Yeah. Well, I didn’t want to get rid of you. And we became good friends in there. And then eventually we joined forces and decided to lead the study groups together, which was really fun. And so, we’ve been really good friends ever since that time, and now we even work together every day. So, I guess you’re probably going to get sick of me at some point.

Michele:

Never.

Are You Ready to Lead?

Kate: (02:55 )

So, talk to us, Michele, about how you felt initially when I presented the idea to you about joining me to lead the Gateway to Practical Homeopathy® study groups.

Michele:

Well, I was actually really anxious about that. Even though I’d been in so many of your groups, Kate, I was just so nervous. I was afraid I would say something wrong. I was afraid I would, you know … we worked on spreadsheets, so I was afraid I would enter something wrong. I’d never even seen a Google doc before, and that’s what we were using to keep track of things.

So, I know I never shared that with you before, but I was really hesitant of leading study groups, and now, it’s what I love to do. I’m just really passionate about sharing this with anyone who wants to listen.

Kate:

Yeah, we did that for many years together, and it just grew and grew. And I would love for us to just talk a little bit about how we’ve developed such great friendships through these study groups. And because we each had our strengths when we came together to lead these study groups, and we each took on certain roles in putting together the study groups. And you were really the people person, Michele, and you still are! Study groups is your thing. You love connecting with people.

And so, you started some Signal groups for the study groups. And talk a little bit about that and how important it is and how we’ve stayed connected with our people.

Staying Connected With Your Group

Michele: (04:21 )

Actually, when we started those groups, it was during that year when people weren’t leaving their homes. And so, we all wanted to stay connected. So, we found a medium that was safe and protected — end-to-end encryption. And we started chatting in our Signal group that was just with one of our Gateway groups.

And then, from then, we took that, and we do that with all of our Gateway groups now.

So, we have a whole bunch of Signal groups. We’ve even branched out, and we have other groups with our study group members. We have an animals group, we have …

Kate:

Groups for each of the states. So, yeah, I don’t think we have all the states, but a Wisconsin study group …

Michele:

The Wisconsin group gets together regularly, like a whole group of them meet up at one of someone that lives near Kate’s house, and they meet on Zoom, too. So, it’s pretty exciting to see how homeopathy has brought us together. And we all actually met on Zoom, so …

Kate:

Right. Yeah, it’s been so fulfilling. These people have become dear friends to us, right, Michele? Yeah.

Michele:

Yeah.

Planning: Tips and Tools

Kate: (05:31 )

So, that’s really fun. Okay, so let’s talk now more about the study groups themselves and what we found to be useful as we planned the study groups and led them — because we have led a lot of study groups. So, we want to give all of the listeners the tools — some of the tips and tools — that we used to do our study groups. So, Michele, why don’t you talk about a few of those things?

Michele:

Well, I think one of the things that you actually started, Kate (when you started leading the study groups) was being consistent with the day and time. You were consistently holding them on a certain day and time every week.

And when people would go to Joette’s Find Your Study Group Friends Facebook page, they always knew when you were going to hold your groups, and it was able for them to connect with you and to schedule with you. And that was great for me, too, when