Group Programmes
We provide a variety of programmes designed for those affected by domestic abuse.
Hope2Recovery
This 6 week programme is for any adult who is currently experiencing domestic abuse and can be delivered via an online setting or face-to-face. Following the trauma informed principles of the Rock Pool Recovery Toolkit, the programme uses a psycho-educational approach and therefore avoids triggering or re-traumatising participants. It is evidence based and gender neutral and can be used to support anyone experiencing abuse.
The program enables participants to understand the dynamics of domestic abuse, why they have coped the way they have and how their parenting has been affected.
Aims of the Hope2Recovery Programme for participants
The overall aims of the programme are to develop sufficient, safety, trust and motivation in the individual to engage them, so they:
- Develop an understanding of the tactics perpetrators of domestic abuse and coercive control use.
- Develop a better understanding of the difference between healthy / unhealthy and abusive relationships.
- Develop a better understanding of their parenting role and the challenge of being a nurturing parent while in an abusive relationship.
- Consolidate this learning to enable future life plans to be based on the safety of themselves and their children.
Recovery Toolkit.
The Rock Pool Domestic Abuse Recovery Toolkit is the UK’s leading trauma informed recovery programmes for adult that have experienced or witnessed domestic abuse, but are no longer in that abusive relationship. This 12 week course aims to provide knowledge required to aid recovery from the effects of living with domestic abuse and can be delivered face-to-face or via an online setting.
- What is abuse
- Introduction to self-esteem
- Coping with the consequences of toxic stress
- The effects of abuse on children and parenting skills
- Self-esteem and affirmations
- Anger and conflict – what about assertiveness
- Boundaries
- Trust
- Losses and gains
- Healthy relationships
- Actions for the future
Sexual Violence Recovery Toolkit
The Sexual Violence Recovery Toolkit programme has been developed for women who have experienced acquaintance, dating, and stranger rape. It is an evidence-based programme that supports clients to be the expert, and at the centre of their own recovery.
The 12-week group programme uses trauma-informed practice and a psycho-educational approach to enable clients to move forward from the trauma of experiencing sexual violence. It supports participants to develop positive lifestyle coping strategies, restoring a sense of safety and enabling people to return to active citizenship.
- Sexual violence myths
- Psychoeducation on autonomic nervous system
- Introduction to self-esteem
- Perpetrators of sexual violence
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-esteem and affirmations
- Being assertive
- Intimate relationships post disclosure
- Building healthy relationships
- Guilt and shame
Freedom Programme
The Freedom Programme is aimed around women who have suffered or still suffering from an abusive relationship and aims to examine the roles played by attitudes and beliefs on the actions of abusive men and the responses of victims and survivors. Abuse comes in many forms and many relationships and our programme aim is to help the women to make sense of and understand what has happened to them, instead of the whole experience just feeling like a horrible mess.
We aim to support and empower our women to make better life choices whilst keeping safe. The aim of the group is to ensure all women feel secure and can engage safely in open discussion where they feel able, whilst hearing from other women in similar situations. The programme runs for 12 weeks .