I want my mum to find happiness

Definitely face to face. The online community serves so many (brilliant) functions but we are interested in building peer support networks. Our focus groups have brought to light the need for women to have other women around them - particularly at weekends when people tend to be doing more 'couply' things. We are running a conference on the 22nd, and we have had lots of interest but translating interest to activity is difficult. It seems to be friends/family who say there is a need but they feel awkward suggesting it to the person in question because they don't want to suggest their is a problem. Many of the women who are coming are coming with a friend, which is fabulous but may be missing people who don't have another person to bring along.
I am a psychotherapist (as are the two people I'm doing this with) so we have many years of experience dealing with people who are at a crossroads - but this is NOT intended to be therapy. The speakers at our conference come from a wide variety of backgrounds but mainly therapy/life-coaching.
We want this to be about empowerment and building on existing skills - advice giving without straying too much into the personal.
The tough line is between empowerment/help-giving and advice/education.

Julesiekate Is you mum unhappy?

Perhaps you could outline in more detail what this group might be and how it might function. I am not clear exactly what you have in mind. Something local and face-to-face? Something national and online? A support group, or an advice-giving organisation? Ru by whom? It would be good to hear what you are thinking of.