Friday, I welcomed a new cohort in the morning, and said goodbye to our prior cohort in the afternoon. It was in this meeting of a hello and goodbye that I found the group’s purpose. Of course, I’d known the purpose to some extent when I started. What began as a group for therapists to enhance their knowledge of working with trauma and examine what comes up in them in response to their people, became a place for therapists to move more deeply toward their own parts and each other’s. To build connection in a time that was so tinged with isolation. It became a place to grow, as moved toward vulnerable places, held by the group.