Spiritual Support Groups
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Mental Health Ministry Spiritual Support Group Meetings can be offered to support people who are living a mental illness and to the caregivers, often parents, who are supporting a loved on who lives with a mental illness. It is important to realize that these are spiritual support meetings, not clinical support group meetings. Spiritual support groups provide spiritual and social support leading to a renewed sense of meaning and purpose. At a spiritual support group meeting participants are offered accompaniment to Journey with others as they experience God.
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Meeting Guidelines, Brochures and Prayers
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- General Guidelines
- Membership Admittance Process
- Member Intake and Acknowledgement Form
- Opening Statement for Meeting
- Pax Booklet with Meeting Agenda - Boston
- Agenda for Spiritual Support Group Meeting - The Cathedral of St. Peter, Scranton
- Ground Rules - The Cathedral of St Peter, Scranton, PA
- Holy Listening from Deacon Tom Lambert
- 16 Specific Actions for Creating a Welcoming Environment
- Interfaith Network on Mental Illness - Starting a Spiritual Support Group
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Spiritual Support Group Prayer Intentions
For the support group meetings prayer intentions can be placed in a prayer box that is kept in a sacred space, such as a chapel. Once the box is filled with intentions a prayer service can be held where the intentions are burned, as prayers rising to God.
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