You are invited to attend a presentation about joining a free Communication Skills Support Group.

What is the presentation about:  It's about communication skills and a new kind of support group for parolees and the community. It's about us all learning how to communicate supportively.

Who can attend the presentation: All parolees (males and females)

When:    __/__/__  From: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Where:  To be announced

Presented by: Kerrith H. (Kerry) King, president of Community Communications, a local nonprofit educational organization. Kerry is a leadership-communication skills coach, a former submariner, Navy SEAL, US Army airborne infantry company commander in Vietnam, and former part-time Instructor Speech/Communication - University of Hawaii (Manoa and Hilo).

What is a Communication Skills Support Group?

It's a series of 3-hr meetings for the purpose of mastering supportive communication. There is a way to communicate (relate) that works for you and others. This way of communicating is called supportive communications. It's not taught in schools. Statistics show that if we all (including you and your family, friends, and former high school classmates) keep communicating with each other the way we have been there's a 42% chance a parolee will end up back in jail. It is not a parolee's fault. Even if the prison staff did a perfect job of rehabilitating you, the community that educated and supported you in being incarcerated, by the way it communicates, has not rehabilitated itself.

In other words, how we all have been communicating with each other these past generations causes some to end up in jail. Rehabilitation cannot take place if only one party to an incident accepts responsibility for causing it.

The way to learn how to communicate supportively is to join a support group. A support group has a facilitator who is a leadership-communication skills coach. The coach and your fellow participants offer feedback on your communications. After a while you automatically communicate in a way that supports you and everyone around you in winning. Satisfying supportive conversations become a habit.

The presentation will be about co-creating an awesomely powerful support group called the Community Support Group which will include participation with, via local television, the entire Big Island.