Emerge Australia is currently establishing a number of online support groups, to provide opportunities for connection to people living with or impacted by ME/CFS who may find it difficult to access in person groups or classes. Participants will be able to book themselves into any group that interests them through an easy online system. Groups are offered at full price (around $100), pay what you can afford or completely free according to what feels right / possible for the person joining. Groups will be made up of eight to twelve people and will meet with a specific focus or theme.

Emerge Australia will facilitate six or eight 30-40 minute meetings – hosted every two weeks over four months – through virtual meeting platform Zoom. After this period, groups will have the opportunity to continue to meet independently. 

A private ‘sub-forum’ will be established for each group on the Emerge Australia ME/CFS community forum, to allow conversation and relationship development to continue outside of fortnightly meetings.

This survey has been set up because we are interested to hear your suggestions for groups that we can host. Please note that contact information collected here will be used solely for the purposes of contacting you in relation to the online community program.

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* 1. Please make any suggestions for groups that you would be interested in being a part of. You can suggest anything at all! Some ideas we've had are :
  • Art classes or art therapy
  • State based groups (e.g. NSW group or VIC group)
  • Advocacy focused e.g. a group to work on a project together like lobbying for positive change for people with ME/CFS through letter writing campaigns
  • Fundraising groups - to share ideas and raise money for ME/CFS support or research
  • Working on something together as a group e.g. develop resources for schools or parents looking after kids with ME/CFS

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* 2. What state do you live in?

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* 3. Age:

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* 4. Do you live in an urban or regional location?

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* 5. Do you have ME/CFS or are you a carer/parent of someone with ME/CFS?

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* 6. Are you housebound/bedbound?

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* 7. How many years have you lived with ME/CFS (if applicable)?

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* 8. Why are you interested in participating in an online community group?

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* 9. Do you have any particular needs that you would like Emerge Australia to consider to enable you to participate in the program and manage your symptoms? For example, times of day when you are most able to participate (e.g. morning vs afternoon).

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* 10. Is there anything else Emerge Australia should know about you? Or that you'd like to tell us? 

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* 11. Please share your email address.

Only share your email if you give us permission to contact you to tell you that we are running a program that you asked for, or if you're ok with us potentially getting in touch to ask for more information. 

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