Men’s Process Group for Attachment and Pornography Use.
Therapist is Matthew Wilson
When: Starts September 16th at 6:30-8:00pm
Where: Awakenings Greensboro – In-person
How long does group last: 12 weeks
Fee – $75, Participants are responsible for all the entire fees even if they miss a session. 12x$75 = 900 – 5% discount if paid in full at registration. Credit cards will simply be billed as Awakenings Counseling
Group size – 8 members
How to Register: Please email Matthew at [email protected]
Clients will be screened and must be able to sit with their own and others’ emotions for an hour and engage with the emotion actively. [write down screening questions]
There will be space for 8 clients.
The group will seek to (1) process disowned attachment needs, (2) recognize how pornography has become a substitute attachment, (3) find new attachments within the group, and (4) support each other in forming new attachments outside of the group.
The purpose of these goals is to transfer attachment from pornography towards partners, friends, and group members and learn to form attachments with others.
The structure of the group will be a process group. The clinician will provide prompts for the processing, which will be as follows:
Week 1 – What brings us here? What has pornography done? The damage it has inflicted on our lives.
Week 2 – How is Pornography a friend? What is the good that porn offers? Why is it so hard to leave?
Week 3 – Short teaching: What is attachment? What has attachment been like in your life? Introduction to sharing our attachment stories, beginning next week.
Weeks 4-8 – Sharing attachment stories. Each member has 30 minutes to share their story and 10 minutes are given for other members to respond. (Create a form to help write the story, including significant misses, significant connections, core messages, and both met and unmet needs)
Week 9 – Relearning to attach. What was it like to share? To hear from others? How did you feel towards yourself or them during the past few weeks?
Week 10 – Vulnerability and Attachment. How can you share yourself more with your spouse, children, friends, and relatives? What parts of yourself would you like them to know about?
Week 11 – Asking for Help
Week 12 – Summary, goodbye, celebration, wrap-up. What have we learned? What is different?