The Women's Group Guide, Part 2: Invitation

Who's in, who's out, and how to deal with the feelings

Hello, dear readers old and new!

In the last episode of Sara’s Substack, we explored how to start a women’s group from the very first stages. We covered:

• The role of an organizer

• Different ways groups can start

• What keeps people together

• Formative choices for creating the container

• How to create accountability for women to show up

You can find that post here.

In this article, we’re going to talk about Phase Next of group creation…The Invitation.

I’ve never sent an invitation like this to a women’s group, but my husband and I go this fancy for everything else - dinners, conferences, Halloween, date nights. We’re classy bitches.

Who do you invite to a group? How do you invite them? How do you deal with the hurt feelings of people who don’t get to be there? In this article, we’ll cover all that, plus:

• The benefits of closed vs open groups

• Ideal group size

• Who I DON’T invite to my women’s groups

• How to elegantly disinvite

This series is subscriber-only. Get a subscription for the cost of 3.5 fancy invitation cards! (also, cool thing: you can now get discounted group Substack subscriptions, or gift them to your favorite ladies/men/humans. Who knew?)

Let’s get into it…