Try the following:
~ Address the group as a whole. Avoid addressing your words to one or two persons.
~ Remember that it is most useful to listen, hear, and understand.
~ Avoid giving advice.
~ Remember that a speaker is probably doing her or his best to be honest.
~ Avoid interrupting another. Your group has a way of dealing with those who would damage your practice.
~ Keep expenses to a minimum. Everyone helps to take care of necessary expenses. Do your part.
~ Really listen to to what another is saying. Improved understanding is a major aim of your group.
~ Learn to listen well and gain greater listening skills.
~ Encourage everyone to speak at each opportunity. The words of each are gifts for us all.
~ Limiting each speaking time to 1 or 2 minutes. It's great to have time to speak more than once at a meeting.
~ Remember that focusing dialogue on personal experience is good practice.
~ In the beginning get 8 or 9 interested persons to commit to 4 or 5 consecutive meetings.
Practice perfects.
More to Come.
RCS