1. COMMITMENT - Describes the process; deals with issues of trust. Solemn commitment made.

2. REALIZING MISTREATMENT - Remembering abuse, neglect, abortion in a controlled way. Recognizing the damages. Understanding who played the roles in the tragic triangle. Analyzing family patterns and themes from early mistreatment. Learning about key conflicts and tracing triggers.

3. CHANGING ANGER AND WITHDRAWAL - Training in assertion. How to deal with threats, danger and manipulation.

4. DEALING WITH GUILT - Assessing and accepting a portion of the contribution and responsibility for tragedies.

5. REMOVING FALSE FACES - Discovering, describing and discarding false faces to rediscover authentic self (pilgrim).

6. PASSING THROUGH DISPAIR - Recognizing and mourning the loss of a reasonable childhood, family and berson I should have become.

7. GRIEVING MY LOSSES - Humanize and name the children of pregnance losses, welcome them into the family. Watch them die and commit their spirits to God.

8. RECONCILIATION - Forgiving self, perpetrators, observers and victims and being forgiven.

9. RECONSIDERATING RELATIONSHIPS - Redefining self and learning ways to establish realistic expectation of others.

10. REHABILITATION AND REJOYCING - Learning to love by creating projects to prevent abuse, neglect and abortion. Finding ways to celebrate life.

11. FUTURE AND BEYOND - Making hard decisions and practical rearrangements in life to create order and direction. Parting exchanges and individual blessings.

12. FOLLOW UP - Reunion of group at 3 and 6 months for update and encouragement.

There are a total of 32 group sessions which last for 2-3 hours each. There is homework after every session and appropriate group interaction and role playing during the sessions.