From Survivor to  Thriver (male group)

From Survivor to  Thriver

WHY DO THE THE COURSE 

About the Course

A psychoeducational and supportive therapy group for male survivors of sexual abuse, this ten week course will help you break out of secrecy, shame and unhealthy patterns of coping bringing you to a place of compassion, resilience and healing. 

This group will be facilitated by male and female therapist. The group format is divided into two segments. The first half of each group are psychoeducational and is based on themes that emerge for survivors of sexual abuse. Common themes that emerge for survivors include the psychological, emotional and physical aspects of abuse. The ten week course will also address old ways for coping with abusive experiences such as compulsions and addiction

The second half of the group is experiential and gives participants the opportunity to talk about and receive support from the facilitators and group members. Participants will also be given a variety of interventions for dealing with shame, guilt , anxiety, anger, worry and PTSED, boundaries and interpersonal relationships  to assist them in their journey  towards healing. Participants wishing to engage in this psycho-educational group should be engaged or willing to engage with individual therapy as the content can bring up unresolved issues from the past that you may need support with.

Gerard has worked for over thirty years in the caring professions. He has worked as a Nurse, Social Care practitioner and a therapist. Gerard has vast experience working with male and female survivors of childhood sexual abuse and the severe effects that impact on all aspects of individual lives.  During his experience as a therapist he has witnessed the impact that sexual abuse has on the lives of survivors. Sexual abuse affects the whole person from a Social, Emotional, Behavioural, Psychological and Spiritual perspective. This course will provide participants will strategies, interventions and techniques to enable participants to cope more effectively with life and enhance the healing process. Although clients’ stories differ the themes and patterns of abuse are similar. The effects of sexual abuse on for male survivors differ from those of female survivor. From a young age men and women are thought by society to meet the difficulties they experience in life differently. Boys are taught to be tough and not show vulnerability. Gerard has met with many men who have reported :  big boys don’t cry, stick your chest out, have another drink it will be all fine, don’t be weak, if you are stronger you could have stopped it, toughen up.

There is strength in numbers, however, and as a result Gerard developed this course to offer psycho education interventions, strategies and exercises to participants. These supports as well as the support from one another will help the individual and the group to break through the confines of secrecy, shame, mistrust, fear of intimacy, anger , over-vigilance, compulsions, phobias, poor body image, negative self- talk, and thinking styles , self- doubt, addiction,  and unhealthy patterns for coping and living life. On this course you will find a place where you will experience compassion, resilience and  healing as you honour you own to experience, connect to untapped resources and inner strengths so that you can live life more fully on their terms 

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