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Katie May is the “Group Guru”.   She works exclusively with teenagers in a teen support center in Flourtown, Pennsylvania.     Groups energize Katie. She says that groups can’ save th’e world.     In groups, people feel less alone in their struggles and they start to heal in ways that individual therapy can’t provide.    Her groups are focused on the ideas of connection.   She told us about a group that she runs that looks at being nonjudgmental for teens.  She talked about using rocks to illustrate the judgements that they have for themselves.  She has them decorate the rocks to describe the judgements and toss them away as a concrete expression of getting rid of their judgements.  The teens put the rocks in a bag, weigh them and then toss them away into the water. This helps with processing of letting go of the judgements.     Sometimes her groups do a “compliment circle” to express and receive kindness from others. Her pre and post assessment of their state of happiness improves after the kindness circle o