Supported Personal Growth

My sister is part of a large global organization of entrepreneurs. They have a program where you gather a small group of entrepreneurs, and they become your life long buddies. A group holds monthly meetings where they share everything about their lives. Not just business but what happens in their private lives, too. They help each other grow as professionals, parents, husbands and wives, friends, etc. The organization sponsors trips where they do activities to advance their psychological health. The goal is to develop as a human being, not just a business person, within a small group of very close friends for life.

I have the deepest admiration, and not a small dose of envy, for this practice. I have to do all of this completely by myself, and I feel great yearning for this kind of collective experience of supported growth.