Twenty-two people showed up for the Denver training, most of them having tried and stalled at least once already.
The question came up in nearly every small-group discussion, phrased differently each time but always circling the same fear: what do I do when nobody comes back the second week?
We didn't have a clean answer, and we said so. What we could offer was a pattern from groups that did keep meeting: the second invitation almost always mattered more than the first. People who got a personal, specific follow-up — not a group text, an actual name-checked message — came back at a noticeably higher rate.
Small thing. Not a strategy. But it was the one piece of practical advice that seemed to land with the whole room.
