Minneapolis Chapter of The Compassionate Friends

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TARGET="_top" TITLE="About us"><U><B><IMG SRC="29b585f0.gif" border=0 width="88" height="95" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></FONT><A HREF="id15.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Minneapolis Chapter"><U><I><B>The mission </B></I></U></A><I><B>of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families in the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child and to provide information to help others be supportive.</B></I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>We are a national nonprofit, self-help organization with almost 600 local chapters.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>The Minneapolis Chapter of The Compassionate Friends meets at 7 pm on the third  Monday of every month.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Location: Calvary Lutheran Church, located at 7520 Golden Valley Road in Golden Valley. </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="tcf_credo_1_1_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><FONT SIZE="3" 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<B>Minneapolis Chapter of The Compassionate Friends</B></div> <div>  <meta NAME="TITLE" CONTENT="Minneapolis Chapter of The Compassionate Freinds"> <meta NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="Grief support after the death of a child, Minneapolis Minnesota"> <meta NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="grief support, The Compassionate friends, Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Compassionate Friends, death of a child"> <meta NAME="OWNER" CONTENT="The Compassionate Friends, Minneapolis"> <meta NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Chuck Campbell"> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="CHARSET" CONTENT="ISO-8859-1"> <meta HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-LANGUAGE" CONTENT="English"> <meta NAME="RATING" CONTENT="General"> <meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index,follow"> <META NAME+"REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="4 weeks">  </div> <div>  <A NAME="a_warm_welcome_to_our_visitors_your"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="the_compassionate_friends_minneapolis.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About us"><U>About 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friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings. There is no religious affiliation and there are no membership dues or fees.</div> <div> The secret of TCF's success is simple: As seasoned grievers reach out to the newly bereaved, energy that has been directed inward begins to flow outward and both are helped to heal. </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> "Who, then, can so softly bind up the wound of another,</div> <div> as he, who has felt the same wound himself."</div> <div> ~ Thomas Jefferson</div> <div> <A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Thoughts, Poetry, and Reflections"><U><IMG SRC="1f23ddd0.jpg" border=0 width="317" height="221" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="the_compassionate_friends_minneapolis.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About us"><U><B><IMG SRC="1f0a62d0.gif" border=0 width="166" height="45" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> The Secret of The Compassionate Friends</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://thecompassionatefriends.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://thecompassionatefriends.org/"><U>The secret </U></A>of The Compassionate Friends' success is simple: There is no line between being a helper and being helped. In the early months of peoples' membership in TCF, it seems that most of the time is spent absorbing ideas, crying and letting the grief flow, and "learning the ropes" of being a bereaved parent. The next step is reaching out to others and helping them. It is not a big step, for listening to another person sort out his life helps us to sort out our lives, too. But it is an important step, because it is the first point at which the movement is reversed. All the energy had been going inward. We had been feeling so empty inside that we kept withdrawing into ourselves. But at the point when we turn around is the point when we first listen to another, speak the words of comfort and hope, share our pain instead of just feeling our pain.  At that time the real healing has started.</div> <div> -- Dennis Klass, Ph.D.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.griefdigest.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.griefdigest.com/"><U><U><IMG SRC="25c852d0.jpg" border=0 width="133" height="45" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.missinggrace.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.missinggrace.com/"><U><IMG SRC="257907a0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="122" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Webrings: </B></I></div> <div>  <script language=javascript src="http://ss.webring.com/navbar?f=j;y=chuck_campbell;u=10028617"> </script><noscript><center> <table bgcolor=gray cellspacing=0 border=2 bordercolor=red><tr> <td><table cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td align=center> <font face=arial size=-1>This site is a member of WebRing. <br>To browse visit <a href="http://ss.webring.com/navbar?f=l;y=chuck_campbell;u=10028617"> Here</a>.</font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table> </center></noscript>  </div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>