About Adult Support Groups

These education and support groups focus on the Endings of the divorce transition with its resulting losses and grief. As can be expected in a group that has a limited time to it, most participants resolve only the fact that they are actually getting a divorce.

It is expected that most of the participants will have to do additional work, either on their own or in other groups, to accept the end of the marriage and saying, "goodbye."

Usually the adult support groups are 10 sessions of one and a half hours each, but the time and number of sessions may change depending on available leadership, size of group, time of the year, and desires of the participants. The adult support groups are open for two weeks and then closed.

Leadership of these groups includes volunteer male and female co-leader partners, at least one of whom has been divorced. Both of the leaders will have completed the Group Leader Training and there is always an experienced leader as co-leader when the other co-leader is inexperienced.

Meeting spaces are in a variety of locations. Over the years Divorce Recovery has been fortunate to have many community partners - churches, hospitals, social service agencies, schools - that have welcomed a group to share their space.

It is not unusual for participants to attend more than one Divorce Recovery group, and some of the people will go to two or more adult support groups. While there is no limit as to the number of groups that a participant can attend, participants are encouraged to attend some of the other options available rather than continue to go from one adult group to another.

See current schedule of upcoming groups.