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 Divorce Recovery Groups are Transition Groups Groups that work primarily with issues of transition are centered on the problems and support people need to move from one life-state to another. Divorce Recovery groups are "Transition" groups. Their focus is to assist people through the divorce transition and provide a safe place where losses can be shared and effective grief work done. Divorce Recovery groups are structured on an educational and support model.  As an educational group, the focus is to provide information about
the divorce process and the healing journey. The issues that are brought up by
individuals for clarification become important pieces of the
educational function of the groups.
As a support group, the objective is to provide a way for participants to tell their story and develop relationships that will help them through the journey. The support group function is perhaps the most helpful part of a Divorce Recovery group. The development of group trust assists in the development of the support which participants give to one another. Divorce Recovery groups are not therapy groups. The groups do involve counseling in its most generic sense, that is "helping individuals to understand themselves and thereby function more effectively in their own worlds." In this sense, Divorce Recovery gives permission for individual group participants to deal with their transitional journey, provides information to assist them in that journey, and in looking at various options for that journey. Divorce Recovery groups do not, however, serve as a replacement for individuals needing and seeking individual counseling. In the beginning of Divorce Recovery, there were only support groups for adults going through the end of a relationship and a weekly crisis group. Over the years as the program has developed, additional groups have been added. Today people who are going through the end of a relationship can participate in evening Adult Support Groups such as Divorce Recovery I Transitions and Divorce Recovery III New Beginnings and the Daytime Noon Drop-In Group . In addition, people may attend the Children of Divorce group and the Step-Parenting group. And for those who feel committed, they are encouraged to participate in the Group Leader Training and become a group leader. See current schedule of upcoming groups. |
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