It's hard to strike the balance between presenting a local "Action for Happiness" group as carnival fun and presenting ourselves as an organisation working to ameliorate:
- isolation
- depression
- meaninglessness
- suicide
J just emailed me saying:
"This [second] video made me realise what a balancing act it is:
to address/include in your invitations those who both do and those who don't want to go deeper.
People seeing only this video might conclude you're operating in the same area-ish as the Samaritans .. you might find desperate people approaching you in some numbers ... that's quite a responsibility. And people who 'just' want a little more expansiveness and laughter in their lives might feel this is too heavy for them. How to cover the range ? Be all things to all people ??
I felt reasured, imagining myself feeling low in your locale, I could knock on your door and not be given just balloons and jokes and a laughter session .... and wondering how you see your rolewith people who are feeling very low/disturbed? "
