ABSTRACT
This chapter provides content for the Life Focus Community group experience and illustrates a few of the major themes that people are likely to want to explore together. They are examples from a large range of experiences that form the substance of people's psychological existence. Empathy is another vehicle for union with other people. Humor helps give an idiomatic flavor to the way people talk to each other, making conversation personal and free-spirited. One exercise would be to ask people to tell each other about any favorable quality of theirs that they might be undervaluing. Happiness, the ultimate goal for many people, is often influenced by the gap between aspiration and actuality. One can feel and express gratitude for more general pleasures, such as having a loving family, a job one likes, high social status, or good health. In the subgroups people might tell each other how gratitude plays out in their lives, both specifically and generally.
