Sharing groups/

classes

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 and Friends Compulsion Education
  • Men 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

  1. Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings. Please limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes.
  2. 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.
  3. We are here to support one another. We will not attempt to "fix" each other.
  4. Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements. What is shared in the group stays in the group!
  5. 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.




Other Registered Classes at Recovery at Cokesbury



Anger Management for Men & Women

Registration Closed

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. 

This class will have a new format including an educational time and a time for application and processing.



Boundaries

Not currently offered.

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.  


Divorce Recovery

Registration Closed

Divorce takes a toll on us financially, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Divorce Recovery is an 8-week class for anyone struggling in the midst of or aftermath of 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 and establishing a supportive community. 



Follow Up Care after Divorce Recovery

We recommend the following groups and classes for additional recovery from Divorce:  

1. Hurt & Loss for Men & Women (Thursday Open Share Group)

2. Codependency Groups for Women and Men (Thursday Open Share Group)

3.  Boundaries (Seasonally)

4. Anger Management (Seasonally)



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.


Introduction to Trauma Support 1

Registration Closed

This class will define trauma, help you identify triggers and learn healthy coping skills.  Led by Vickie Haberbosch, RN, BSN, MPH, CSA


MEN'S TWELVE STONES

Registration Closed

A class for men struggling with any compulsion or addiction. The group will come together to address their individual issues using  The Twelve Steps for Christians  book. 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

Registration Closed

A class for women struggling with any compulsion or addiction. The group will come together to address their individual issues using A Hunger for Healing” by J. Keith Miller and the AA Big Book.  Whether you struggle with drugs, alcohol, codependency, food, 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