Sharing groups offer support in your recovery. Each of our sharing groups is a safe place where you can listen to the experiences of others as well as share your own feelings and concerns, if you'd like. Each group is facilitated by a trained volunteer who has personal experience in the issues on which the group focuses. Our facilitators ensure the group rules are followed by all of the participants so that everyone can have a positive, supportive experience.
Each Recovery At Cokesbury location offers a specific set of sharing groups. Groups at Recovery at Cokesbury Knoxville include:
- Chemically Dependent Men
- Chemically Dependent Women
- Women Conquering Codependency
- Men Conquering Codependency
- Family Support
- Men Seeking Sexual Integrity
- Women Seeking Sexual Integrity
- Orientation
- Precovery (Children ages 5-12)
These groups do not require registration.
See the location you're interested in visiting for information about the sharing groups offered at that location.
Guidelines For Sharing Groups
- Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings. Please limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes.
- There will be no cross talk, please. Cross talk is when two individuals engage in dialogue excluding all others. Each person is free to express his/her feelings without interruption.
- We are here to support one another. We will not attempt to "fix" each other.
- Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in the group stays in the group!
- Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered recovery group.
Current Registered Classes
All Classes meet at the North Campus, 9919 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37922.
DIVORCE RECOVERY
Register Here
Begins September 22
Divorce takes a toll on us: financially, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Divorce Recovery, an 8-week class for anyone struggling in the midst of aftermath of a divorce. Class topics include combating stigma and negative self-talk, healthy versus unhealthy coping skills, grieving the death of a relationship, taking responsibility for your future, and creating & establishing a supportive community.
Other Registered Classes at Recovery at Cokesbury
Anger Management
Not currently offered.
Anger is a perfectly natural and a common emotion. It can be experienced via mild irritation, furious rage or can be internalized and come out as depression. What is important is not the occurrence of anger, but it's management.
Boundaries
Registration Closed.
Do you need to learn how to say no without feeling guilty? Do you wonder when it's okay to say yes? Are you a nice liar but a mean honest person? Is anger the primary boundary you use? If you said yes to any of these questions, Boundaries is a great resource for you!
Beyond Boundaries
Not currently offered.
Follow-up class to Boundaries.
Follow Up Care after Divorce Recovery
We recommend the following groups and classes for additional recovery from Divorce:
1. Codependency Groups for Women and Men
2. Boundaries
3. Anger Management
Experiencing God
Not currently offered.
A class based on the book "Experiencing God - Knowing and Doing the Will of God" by Claude King and Henry Blackaby.
How Real Men Fight
Not currently offered.
A class for men based on the book "Fight" written by Craig Groeschel. How do men grow? How do you deal with conflict openly, fairly, with integrity and with creative outcomes? You will find the strength to fight the battles you know you need to fight.
Men's 12 Stones
Not currently offered.
A class for men struggling with any compulsion or addiction. The group will come together to address their individual issues using the 12 Steps: A Spiritual Journey workbook. Whether you struggle with drugs, alcohol, sex addiction, gambling, etc. this study is for you.
Search for Significance
Not currently offered.
Class based on the book "The Search for Significance" by Robert S. McGee.
Women's Open 12 Step Study
Not currently offered.
Open 12 Step Study for women struggling with any compulsion or addiction. Women will come together to address their individual issues using the 12 Steps: A Spiritual Journey workbook. Whether you struggle with codependency, another issue, or have an addiction to drugs, alcohol, food, shopping, etc. this study is for you.
Women Seeking Sexual Integrity
Not currently offered.
A class for women who struggle with serial dating, love addiction, pornography and other sexual addiction issues.
Sign up for these classes by signing the sheet in the Guest Services area on Thursday nights, clicking the link above, emailing ttracy@cokesbury.tv, or calling the Recovery Office at 865-246-0449.
Healthy Relationships
A. Expectations
Spoken and Unspoken
Family of Origin influences
I-marriage principles – others owe us nothing
B. Communication styles and conflict resolution
Definitions of Assertive/Passive/Aggressive
Using I statements
Taking a time out
Boundary principles
C. Personal Drivers: Schema Inventory
Schemas and Relationships
D. Maintaining Self in Relationships
God is God
Any person /relationship that becomes our sense of safety and or security has become an idol.
Self-care, spiritually emotionally, physically
Teachers
Vicky McDaniel
Mark Beebe