Start your own Shape Shifters Group™ 
or find an existing group near you!

Thanks for your interest in Shape Shifters group meetings. Discussing this process with like-minded people really helps you to stay on track. That's why Lisa started Shape Shifters Groups. If you'd like to start up a group in your area, let us know and we'll help you get it off the ground. After all, we can't start the groups without you!

Being a part of a Shape Shifters Group is extremely helpful if you're serious about creating change in your life. You already know how hard it is to begin any life overhaul without support from family and friends. How many times have you dieted only to hear from them, "Oh, you can break your diet just this once. It's a special occasion!" They think they're being friendly, but they are actually undermining your commitment to change.

In a Shape Shifters Group, you'll have that support from people who want to know more about body/mind/spirit weight balancing (or other goal achievement). You'll have people with whom to discuss concepts and compare notes. And you'll have your own team of cheerleaders!

What are the advantages to starting a group? 

If there are no Shape Shifters Groups in your area and you are thinking about perhaps taking on the task yourself, you are much appreciated by the Shape Shifting team. Therefore, assistance is here for you. Let us know about you!

You'll receive:

• Help finding a venue in your local area, if you don't want to hold group meetings in your home;

• Assistance in contacting others in your area (downloadable .pdf flyers ... you just add your local info; advice on ways to advertise your group, announcements made through the Shape Shifting outlets on Facebook, MySpace and the Shape Shifting Community, etc.);

• Access to group leader conference calls, hosted by Lisa Bonnice. Ask questions of your own, or those posed by group members.

• Group rates on book purchase prices (15% discount). You, as the group leader, also get your own copy free with a group order of five or more books if ordered through the Shape Shifting Online site. Let us know when you have a group order and we will send you instructions.

Click here for further information on starting a group.

Or, if you're looking for a group near you, let us know where you're located and we will hook you up with anyone else in your area who is either active in a group or looking for others with whom to start one.

What is a Shape Shifters Group?

This is the most fun you’ll ever have reclaiming your perfect body. You’ll walk out of a Shape Shifters meeting feeling pumped up, motivated and ready to take on another week. The best way to do that is to focus on the positive. You are encouraged to share your success stories and to act as cheerleaders for each other. 

The Shape Shifting process is broken down into five basic components: Challenges, Makeovers, Triumphs, Intentions and Epiphanies, which are logged in your Shape Shifters Daily Diary.

• Challenges—things we’d like to change

• Intentions—positive statements of intent to transform this week’s Challenges

• Triumphs—positive results we’ve seen from last week’s Challenges

• Makeovers—little things we do to make ourselves feel or look better

• Epiphanies—breakthroughs that we've made that week

Here's how it works: Shape Shifting--reclaiming your perfect body is required reading, and groups can purchase them at a group rate. You'll understand why, once you start working with a group, because it's really hard to explain to someone who just shows up and hasn't read it. This is, in essence, an interactive book study group, and people who don't read the book won't have a clue what's going on.

The Shape Shifter's Daily Diary is also required, and groups can purchase them at a group rate. Each week, group members take turns reporting what they've accomplished and discussing any Challenges they might like feedback on or help with. The first part of the meeting is structured, with each member allowed a designated number of minutes to have the floor,* with no interruption* (except for feedback, if requested). The second part of the meeting is freeflow conversation

* Group leaders may define how long each member may speak depending on the number of attendees and time allotted for the meeting. Bringing a timer to group meetings is strongly recommended to keep everyone on topic.

A little extra info on how to start your own local group...

Tell your friends about the book and gather a few people who are interested in doing this together, or advertise in your local New Age or entertainment magazine, hang a flyer in your local New Age and health food stores, etc. List your group meeting on Craigslist, MySpace, Meetup, or any other places that allow this type of listing.

Find a place to meet: someone's house, a community rec room, or see if your Unitarian Universalist or Unity Church has a space you can use. Even your public library will sometimes have space to use for a book study group.

If you're having a hard time getting people to sit down and read the book (people's lives are so busy these days!) direct them to this article that explains the very basics of the Shape Shifting process, so they can see if it would be something that might interest them.

The ideal group size is 4-8 people, but you can certainly start a group with only two if that's the way it feels best to you. It will grow as you become more confident and feel comfortable inviting others to join. The length of the meeting should allow enough time for everyone to have about 10 minutes or so to speak. Therefore, a six-person meeting should be about 90 minutes long, to allow enough time to settle in and wrap up, in addition to everyone's 10 minutes. 

Group leaders may define how long each member may speak depending on the number of attendees and time allotted for the meeting. Bringing a timer to group meetings is strongly recommended to keep everyone on topic. Until everyone gets the hang of how this works, it's something a challenge to keep some people from interrupting while someone is talking. Whomever has the floor holds the timer while they are speaking. That way everyone stays within their time, and only those who hold the timer are allowed to speak without permission.

If your group is growing too large to allow for a 90 minute meeting, then split into two smaller groups. You can still use the same space, if desired; just form two circles.

These are the basics on how to start your own Shape Shifters Group. If you have any questions at all, please don't be afraid to ask! It's what we're here for! And, be sure to let us know about your group!

Here's a great way to word your ad:

Shape Shifters Group forming now. Based on the book and radio show Shape Shifting--reclaiming your perfect body, Shape Shifters Groups are gatherings of like-minded people who wish to combine metaphysical or spiritual thought (A.K.A. "The Secret" or the Law of Attraction) to their body shaping, weight loss, self-esteem-raising efforts.

We need witnesses. We need like-minded people who believe the same things we believe. Because we're surrounded by mainstream naysayers and Doubting Thomases, we have a hard time believing in ourselves, in our own power to create ourselves anew. Shape Shifters Groups help to alleviate the pain that comes with the lack of support on your journey.

Most people tend to blow off amazing body/mind/spirit experiences as coincidence or imagination. Shape Shifters Groups are intended to support you on your shape shifting journey by providing witnesses and feedback so that you can believe in yourself and in what the process is unfolding for you.

For more info check out www.shapeshiftingonline.com

(Be sure to put your contact info in the ad!)