Seattle Beginning Experience is a church-based all-volunteer divorce and grief support group that hosts twice a year weekend retreats for people who've lost a spouse through death or divorce. There are not many support services geared to the divorcing population, so this one is providing a much needed niche service. The cost is $180 and this includes housing at the Gold Bar retreat center and five meals. They also include a class series as well, if a weekend retreat is not for you.
If this church organization is not your cup of tea, Center For Spiritual Living offers a grief and loss support group and a difficult relationship support group (which can include divorce).
Dr. Bob, a licensed school psychologist who is very experienced in divorce matters, including child custody evaluations, parental alienation and other forensic areas, has joined with Janet Conner author of Spiritual Geography and Writing Down Your Soul to present an introductory Webinar entitled the On Purpose Divorce. The Webinar will be presented on May 15, 2008 at 8:00 PM. It will discuss how in some cases divorce is happening for you not to you. We will give an overview of our 360 degrees of healing. Go to http://www.acenterforhumanpotential.com for more information.
Posted by: Dr. Bob | May 12, 2008 at 07:48 AM
I am in favor of joining support groups when dealing with divorce. I am in the Fisher Divorce Rebuilding program and I am getting a lot out of it.
From this program I have learned some helpful things about the grief process. It may be obvious to some of us, that divorce is a loss like a death is, and that there is a grieving process, yet I find there are either misunderstandings about the grief process or simply a lack of knowledge about it.
I just posted some thoughts & information about the grief process (and tried to break down some misunderstandings about it) on my blog: http://italiandreams.wordpress.com
I am wondering about your views on this topic?
Posted by: Chandi | November 16, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Support groups are great. And anything that helps to promote healing. It may sound silly but this site helped me, www.mydivorcecertificate.com. I got a purple one and when it came in the mail I had a good laugh. Sometimes it's the little things. You know?
Posted by: Single Mom | August 17, 2009 at 09:36 AM