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 2 individuals engage in dialogue, excluding all others.  Each person is free to express feelings without interruption.
3. We are here to support one another.  We will not attempt to "fix" another.
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 group.

Celebrate Recovery Small Groups Can:

• Provide you a safe place to share your experiences, strengths and hopes with others who are going through the "Principles" in a Christ-Centered recovery. 
• Provide you a leader who has gone through a similar hurt, hang-up on habit that will facilitate the group as it focuses on a particular Step each week. The leader will also keep Celebrate Recovery's "FIVE RULES." (Link to the 5 Rules)
• Provide you with the opportunity to find an accountability partner or sponsor. 
• Encourage you to attend other recovery meetings held throughout the week, if available.

Celebrate Recovery Small Groups Will Not:

• Attempt to offer any professional clinical advice. Our leaders are not counselors. We will provide you with a list of approved counseling referrals. 
• Allow its members to attempt to fix one another.

Other Focus: Concentrating on others needs and problems.  Analyzing their motives and behavior.  Asking questions of others.  Telling stories about what he/she did.

• NEGATIVE RESULTS: Helps us avoid our own issues.  Makes us observers, not participants.   Puts a safe (and lonely) distance between ourselves and others.
• RULE 1: Keep your sharing focused on your own thoughts and feelings.  Please limit your sharing to 3-5 minutes.
• RULE 2: We are here to support one another.  We will not attempt to "fix" one another.
• GOALS: Work on self.  Share personal needs, feelings, ideas and problems.  Allow time for all those who need share.

Breaking Confidentiality: Telling outsiders what was said or done in group.  Gossip disguised as a prayer request.

• NEGATIVE RESULTS: Violates trust and safety.   Makes members afraid to share risky material.
• RULE 3: Anonymity and confidentiality are basic requirements.  What is shared in the group stays in the group.
• GOALS: Celebrate Recovery is a safe place.

Cross-Talk:  Interrupting people, asking questions, having a dialogue with one other member of the group.

• NEGATIVE RESULTS: Members fear that they won't be able to finish sharing, that their ideas are not valued, or that they won't get a chance to speak.
• RULE 4: There will be no cross-talk please.   Cross-talk is when two individuals engage in a dialogue, excluding all others.   Each person is free to express feelings without interruption.
• RULE 5: Offensive language has no place in a Christ-centered recovery group.
  GOALS: Listen respectfully to what others choose to share.

Celebrate Recovery Is and Is Not...
 

Things We Are

Things We Are Not

A safe place to share. A refuge. A place of belonging. A place to care for others and be cared for. Where respect is given to each member. Where confidentiality is highly regarded. A place to learn. A place to demonstrate genuine love. A place to grow and become strong again. A place for progress. Where you can take off your mask and allow others to know who you are. A place for healthy challenges and healthy risks. A possible turning point in your life.

A place for selfish control. Therapy. A place for secrets. A place to look for dating relationships. A place to rescue or be rescued by others. A place for perfection. A long-term commitment. A place to judge others. A quick fix.