This group is open to any women that would want to attend.

It has been designed principally but not exclusively to:

• Improve self-esteem by focusing on self-discovery; self-respect; self-confidence; and empowerment
  
• Enrich social relationships by working in toxic/healthy relationships; understanding DA, types of violence and violence cycle; also in styles of communication.
  
• Enhance emotional intelligence, focusing on recognising own emotions and others'; working on empathy and providing tools to understand the control of emotions.
  
• Develop resilience by working on decision-making; positive adaptation and problem solutions.
  
• Familiarise with detachment; disconnection and rejection by working on understanding trauma bonding; instability/abandonment; mistrust/abuse; emotional deprivation; and social isolation/alienation.
  
• To identify how to recover from abuse; identifying abusive behaviours; gaslighting; co-dependency; trauma bonding and PTSD.
  
• Applying confidence by shaping thoughts and thought processes; confident thoughts; working on faulty thinking (catastrophising; mind-reading all-or-nothing thinking; overgeneralising/labelling; blaming); comparison trap; impostor syndrome.
  
• To recognise healthy/unhealthy behaviours and relationships, by working on mutual respect (limits/boundaries; consent; emotional intimacy; feeling supported/supporting others; feeling security and comfort; equality/equal power; corresponsability; conflict resolution; shared/unshared values; trust and honesty; mutual commitment); open and direct communication (without fear of manipulation or reprisal); independency in the partnership (support network; own life apart; economic/career independence).

Every Thursday (excluding the 4th of July) in Norbury's Library; from 11:00 to 13:00 h.

Sessions Run

Thursday morning, Thursday afternoon