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Survivor of Sexual Abuse
WHY DO THE COURSE
About the Course
Are you a Survivor of sexual abuse? Do you struggle with shame, addiction, relationships, and confidence issues? Have you tried one-to-one approaches to healing and are still feeling stuck? If so, you might like to come and sit within a warm, non–judgemental environment with people who have experienced what you have. If you find yourself at this crossroads, perhaps the time has come to embark on a new healing journey and arrive at the place you’ve always yearned for.
This is a psycho-educational and supportive therapy group for survivors of sexual abuse. This eight 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.
Come along to our sexual abuse workshops where you will receive support, guidance, and strategies in a compassionate space. From here, you will learn to befriend and overcome the pain, challenges, low self-esteem, shame, trauma, and negative thinking which you have courageously lived with up until now.
Listed below is an overview of our 8-week psycho-education support group programme that will assist you on your journey from sexual abuse towards wholeness.
- WEEK 1 (Formation, Safety & Sharing)
- WEEK 2 (Tools, Resources & Supports)
- WEEK 3 (Male & Female Survivors & Wounds)
- WEEK 4 (Interpersonal Difficulties & Cutting Negative Ties)
- WEEK 5 (Reclaiming the Self through Soul Retrieval)
- WEEK 6 (Psycho-educational Strategies)
- WEEK 7 (Self Care)
- WEEK 8 (Integration & Closing)
Covering Topics such as:
Sexual abuse and the impact for male and female survivors
Sexual abuse for survivors on a physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual level
Attachment Styles – Secure, Insecure, Insecure Ambivalent, Disorganized
Rigid, Loose, and Healthy Boundaries and how to set healthy ones
Triggers where abuse is reactivated - creating a safe space and calming the body’s response
Exercises and strategies to overcome shame, anger, loss, pain, and build trust
Journeying to a safe space using mindfulness and embodied creative visualization
Self-care strategies for flashbacks, numbness, dissociation, and hyper-vigilance
Sexuality, intimacy, and relationships
Compulsions
Recognizing old maladaptive coping strategies (addiction, alcohol abuse, co-dependency, gambling, compulsions, eating disorders, etc.)
Creating new healthier ways for living (journaling, exercise, diet, living in the moment, mindful living, challenging irrational thoughts, Choice Theory, STOPP, Helicopter View, Worry Time)
Grieving our past - Letting go and reclaiming your future
Moving on and moving forward in life
*This course is run over an eight week period. Groups take place once per week (from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm) and cost €60 per session. Handouts and support materials are given to participants each week*
Benefits
BENEFITS OF THE COURSE
Insight
Recognise patterns of sexual abuse and how they impact all aspects of life.
Growth
Develop enhanced coping skills and resilience.
Personal Development
Develop better self-care, boundary setting, and self-image.
Strength
Break through secrecy, develop resilience, become more assertive, and find your voice.
The therapist
WHO PROVIDES THIS?
About Geraldine Walsh
I am an experienced and registered holistic therapist. I practice various therapies and can assist you to breakthrough old patterns and habits that no longer serve you.
About Gerard Mc Nevin
Gerard is a practicing psychotherapist, trainer and workshop facilitator. He has worked in the caring profession for thirty years and has qualifications in Nursing, Social Care, Reality Therapy , Energy Healing Healing and Shamanic Healing.
I really loved the interventions. I felt angry and frightened a lot of the time and people would stay away from me. The isolation was terrible. Each week I got tools to help me if and when the demons arise. My friends are here for me now, not running from me.
-Lauren, Kildare
When I arrived at the course, my head was all over the place. I couldn’t look at people because I thought people could see right through me. By the end of the course, I was much more in control. I wasn't spinning out of control any more. For the first time I felt more at home with myself.
-Maya, Kildare
I felt heard, understood, and relieved . I began to accept myself and I learned some tools for when the tough times came.
-Shauna, Dublin
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Content
WHAT'S INCLUDED?
Content of the Course
This course will be facilitated by male and female therapist. These group sessions will include:
-Setting rules, boundaries, and creating a safe space for healing based on respect, acknowledgement, support, and compassion for yourself and fellow participants.
-Sharing in a safe manner with the opportunity to talk about and receive support from the facilitators and group members.
-Meditations and visualizations to assist in releasing hurt, loss, grief, anger and to set healthy boundaries and promote self care.
-Interactive exercises and interventions based on specific topics aimed at dealing with shame, guilt, anxiety, anger, worry, PTSD, boundary setting, and interpersonal relationships to assist with one's journey towards healing.
-Cleanses for the removal of suppressed energy.
-Grounding exercises and closing of the session.
Each session will include psycho-educational strategies and interventions to overcome triggers, ongoing hurdles, inter-relational problems, and other emotional issues and to enhance and strengthen your boundaries.
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. Although clients’ stories differ the themes and patterns of abuse are often quite similar.
This course offers psycho-educational interventions, strategies, exercises, and games to assist you to settle into the group, build confidence, and develop skills for self care and healing. This as well as the support from one another can help the individual and the group to break through the confines of secrecy, shame, and unhealthy patterns for coping and living life. Participants can grow to a place where they experience compassion, resilience, and healing as they honour their own to experience and live life more fully on their terms.
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