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Six Week Group Support Course
Group support is provided through a Six-week support course with each meeting lasting two hours. The evening starts with a meal and is followed by short talks and group discussions on the weeks topic. Some weeks include someone from the previous course relating their experience regarding a particular topic.
Topics of Support Sessions
Session 1 – Welcome and Introduction
Introduces the recovery process and helps people to locate where they are at present and what they hope to get from the course.
Session 2 – Coping with change
Looking at the effects of the past and learning how to make positive changes now and in the future.
Session 3 - Communication and resolving conflict
Includes a section on listening skills and personal conflict style.
Session 4 – Forgiveness
Looks at the importance of forgiving others and self in order to move on in the recovery process.
Session 5 – Legal and Moral decisions
This session may include input from a family lawyer and includes discussion of the possibility of reconciliation. Additional material of specific interest to Christians regarding divorce in the Bible is also available for those who wish to explore this.
Session 6 – Relationships and Boundaries
Looks at how to cope with relationship changes and putting in place boundaries to help maintain your own health and wellbeing.
Group Support Meetings
Meetings are held several times a year in various locations. The aim is to provide a safe, supportive environment in which to discuss issues concerning relationship breakdown. Each meeting uses a combination of short presentations on particular topics followed by discussion. Sessions can be adjusted to deal with topics of particular concern to those in the group at the time.
Individual Support
Support can be made available on a one-to-one basis within the Stirling area or by telephone. One hour listening sessions provide people with an opportunity to talk through their feelings and situation with a trained listener before deciding whether the Group support course is the best option.
The Journey of Recovery
The Journey of Recovery which we make reference to in the support course and it’s also a key point on our display board and should be accompanied with the following text:
- All change involves loss or gain of some kind be it people, places or routine.
- They are normal, predictable stages that people go through in coping with loss.
- Healthy coping is moving through these stages illness is getting stuck.
- Skipped stages can result in unhealthy residuals.