Links from first meeting of the Chiang Rai "Positive Aging" Group held on Sat Feb 16, 2019

25 people attended our first meeting today, when I and Steve each gave a presentation (links below). We had group discussions at the end of each talk. 

The group decided to meet again on Sunday March 10th at 9.30am for coffee and socializing, with the meeting proper starting at 10am. We will meet at the Legend, and there will be a charge of 120 bt for coffee, cakes, fruit and use of the room. 

Steve Myers and I will meet to discuss an agenda for the next meeting, based on the many ideas which you suggested today and by email after the meeting. We would like the meetings/subject matter to become "owned" by the members (rather than driven by Steve and I), and would like to invite anyone who wants to volunteer to join us to form a small group proposing subject matter (and maybe doing some research for future meetings). Let me know if you're interested so we can include you in our discussions to plan the next meetings.

In particular, we discussed the idea of people offering to give a short talk (we suggested 5 minutes but can be flexible) on a subject on which they have some knowledge/interest. I have had a couple of suggestions thus far, but would welcome offers from anyone who wants to volunteer for the next meeting or beyond. Please indicate your name, the title and a brief summary of what you would like to talk about. We will include a Q&A session after each one.  Steve and I will be happy to assist people to structure a talk and prepare slides if necessary. 

Here is a brief summary of today's meeting with some links:

- link to my talk on the background to the setting up of the group, and the group exercise "What do you do better now than you did when you were 25?" here. 

- link to the ideas we noted on the whiteboard at the end of the group session here

- link to Steve's slides here

- link to the ideas for future meetings we noted on the whiteboard at the end of the second group session here

- a link to the "Bibliography" we mentioned - all the articles we have been reading, and on which today's talks were based here

- a link to the reviews of the five books Steve mentioned and which were on display here. A reminder that you can order a copy of any one of these books for 200bt. Let me have any orders.