Four groups with a faith dimension: religious trauma, deconstruction, grief that is tangled up with belief, and the exiled. Enrolment is open and the first cohort is being received now. Every group is led by someone who has cleared the certification path before a single session runs.
A religious trauma support group is not a general therapy group with hymns added. The harm has specific machinery — a text used as a weapon, a father in the faith who turned, an altar call that worked. Talking about it in a room where nobody knows what an altar call is costs you half the hour in translation.
These four groups exist so that the translation is unnecessary. If your difficulty has nothing to do with church, the general community groups on the main Bloom site will serve you better, and going there is not a lesser choice.
For people carrying injury done by a church, a pastor, a text, or a family that used all three. Status: forming. Enrolment open, first cohort being received.
Enrol → IIFor people taking a belief system apart and finding out what stays. No required destination — leaving and staying are both allowed outcomes. Status: forming. Enrolment open.
Enrol → IIIWhen the loss and the belief are knotted together — a funeral you were kept out of, a God you cannot forgive. Status: forming. First cohort being received.
Enrol → IVFor people put out of a congregation, and for people who left before it could finish the job. Status: forming. Enrolment open, first cohort being received.
Enrol →Name or alias, which group, and how it is safe to contact you. Two sentences about what brought you is plenty.
Fifteen to twenty minutes with the leader, by message or voice, before you are placed. It exists so you can ask questions and so the group is the right one.
Confidentiality, no proselytising, no cross-talk that corrects someone’s beliefs, and a clear route to raise a concern about the leader. You keep a copy.
Required — not waivableYou are told the size, the format, the meeting rhythm, and the start date before you commit to anything.
Missing a session costs you nothing and triggers no follow-up you did not ask for. Leaving is a message, not a meeting.
“There is no room in Christ that you have to be well enough to enter.”
Pastora Tori Matthews, Ordinary and Chief Pastor
Tell us which group, an alias if you prefer one, and how it is safe to reach you. The Ordinary and the group’s leader are the only people who read this.
Nobody arrives at a group like this feeling ready. Enrolling costs you nothing and commits you to a conversation, not a year.
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