Building Bonds
Meeting #7
This meeting develops skills to create new and strengthen existing interpersonal relationships. Using Jia Jiang’s TED Talk, What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection, as a foundation for discussion, participants explore the challenges of forming and improving bonds and consider how boundaries and personal resilience factor into a good, strong friendship.

Meeting Guide
By the end of the meeting, participants will be able to:
- Describe how fear of rejection acts as a challenge to developing new relationships and strengthening existing relationships.
- Understand that the most effective way to reduce anxiety around a specific task is through continual engagement in that task – opposite action.