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Scenario

How to navigate when a social group becomes a space for sexual identity exploration

Our neighborhood book club has become this unexpected space where several of us have been exploring questions about sexuality and identity, but now there's tension because some long-time members feel like it's not what they signed up for and others feel like we're finally having real conversations. We don't want to lose people but we also don't want to go back to surface-level discussions when some of us are in the middle of important personal discoveries.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community is negotiating between maintaining existing membership comfort and honoring emerging needs for authentic identity exploration.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sexual orientation as identity?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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