Don't let the therapeutically "correct" way to run a group hijack your meeting. Leaders are reluctant to cut a newcomer off for fear of shaming their inner child, rejecting them, or appearing to be mean. We are not therapy and we can't share with them if they can't listen.
 
I do not let the newcomer's inner child run our meetings.
This is not play therapy.
 
Excerpt from the Pocket Sponsor, By The
Hazelden author of ' Day By Day' & other Meditation Books