MORE BENEFITS OF GROUP THERAPY
These are ongoing weekly groups of no more than six to eight people. By creating an intimate circle of trusted members, all committed to attending every week, the group itself takes on a life and healing energy of it's own. With 20 years group experience of witnessing breakthroughs and miracles in established groups, Terry Daggett, feels a great passion for and belief in the transformative power and practical effectiveness of the group experience.
Just what is group therapy?
In group therapy, five to ten people meet face-to-face with one or more trained group therapists and work through issues effecting their quality of life. Members also give feedback to each other by expressing their own feelings about what someone says or does.
This interaction gives group members an opportunity to try out new ways of behaving and to learn more about the way they interact with others. What makes the situation unique is that it is a closed and safe system. The content of the group sessions is confidential; what members talk about or disclose is not discussed outside the group.
The first few sessions of a group usually focus on the establishment of trust. During this time, members work to establish a level of trust that allows them to talk personally and honestly. Group trust is achieved when all members make a commitment to the group.
Why does group therapy work?
When people come into a group and interact freely with other group members, they usually recreate those difficulties that brought them to group therapy in the first place. Under the skilled direction of a group therapist, the group is able to give support, offer alternatives, or gently confront the person. In this way the difficulty becomes resolved, alternative behaviors are learned, and the person develops new social techniques or ways of relating to people. During group therapy, people begin to see that they are not alone. Many people feel they are unique because of their problems, and it is encouraging to hear that other people have similar difficulties. In the climate of trust provided by the group, people feel free to care about and help each other.
Some of the many benefits of group therapy:
• Exploring issues in an interpersonal context more accurately reflects real life.
• Group therapy provides an opportunity to observe and reflect on your own and others' interpersonal skills.
• Group therapy provides an opportunity to benefit both through active participation and through observation.
• Group therapy offers an opportunity to give and get immediate feedback about concerns, issues and problems affecting ones life.
• Group therapy members benefit by working through personal issues in a supportive, confidential atmosphere while helping others to work through theirs.
WOMEN'S GROUPS
For thousands of years women have been coming together in groups to heal each others wounds, celebrate each others triumphs and find humor and love in even the darkest of stories or events. We tell each other our secrets and in the telling, find healing and the path out of isolation and pain. If, at any time in your life you have ever experienced the demand for perfection, the abandonment of emotional abuse, or the violation of physical or sexual abuse then this group is a safe place where you can heal from those experiences--a warm place where you can reclaim your innocence, your feelings of self worth and THE POWER OF THE FEMININE SPIRIT.
This group is about letting go of old, self limiting beliefs, destructive patterns of behavior and any other obstacles which until now have been blocking the way to achieving your deepest life desires. By first changing the relationship with yourself, then practicing some tools for relating to others, as if my by magic your world becomes a friendlier, safer place, full of infinite possibilities. Learn to attract and manifest the relationships, the love, the creativity, the money, the lives you want.
Join now and claim your space in this sacred circle.
CO-ED GROUPS
One of the many benefits provided in a coed group is the opportunity to identify old beliefs and misperceptions we have about the opposite sex. Similar to the women's group, this co-ed group will focus on letting go of self limiting beliefs, releasing effects of past trauma or pain, and replacing behaviors that no longer serve you with ones that promote health and connection. Finding compassion and understanding by observing and participating in each others work, gives whole new perspectives on habits and issues you may employ in all kinds of relationship, family, bosses, parents, friends. Seeing and understanding brings you the power of choice in all your relationships, including the one with yourself.
