Category Archives: Support Groups

programs, divorce recovery workshops

Someone always controls an interpersonal dynamic

Be careful when an organizational structure advocates co-anything as a leadership construct. Some divorce support groups favor co-facilitated discussions, typically led by a man and a woman out of some perception that this supports a better balance in participation, improvements via same-gender connect-ability. I’ve also seen divorce mediations similarly managed. In fact, all the better [...]

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Have you thought about what your affiliations reveal?

An associate of mine who facilitates a divorce support group is also a “Friend” on Facebook. Last week, I was sitting in on one of her get-togethers to assist with a challenging participant situation. And as facilitator, she weighed in with a rather personal story of her own at one point, to make an empathetic connection. By [...]

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