An international support group network. Locate or start a group in your community.
Step Two in gaining SANITY is to "A"
- Assemble a Support Group
Quick links on this page:
Find out more about the 6 Steps to SANITY and 12-Weeks to Freedom Program
Why start a support group?
Step 1 - A Note from Allison Bottke
Step 2 - Getting Started
Step 3 - Register Your Group Online
Step 4 - Order Your 6 Steps to S.A.N.I.T.Y and 12-Weeks to Freedom Materials
IT’S NOT ENOUGH TO JUST READ THE BOOK!
Reading the book is a great start to gaining SANITY. However, Allison Bottke has developed an additional tool that is vital to help you reinforce new boundaries. Allison’s
6 Steps to SANITY and 12-Weeks to Freedom progam is a MUST HAVE for Individuals or Support Groups.
Interested in possibly facilitating a support group in your community? Or encouraging someone else to assemble a support group? If so, read Steps 1, 2 & 3.
NOTE: If you are an individual who wishes to study in the privacy of your home, please click here.
A Note from 
There is clearly an epidemic of major proportion plaguing our nation today. This has become obvious to me as I travel the country sharing my God Allows U-Turns testimony and outreach. Seldom does a week go by when I am not approached by someone in deep pain concerning their adult child. It’s not just audience members in conflict with this troubling issue, but fellow authors, speakers and entertainers, some quite well known, who are living in the throes of familial discord concerning out-of-control adult children. It’s happening all over the country to people from all walks of life.
During the years I spent as an enabling parent there were no support groups available for me as a parent in pain. Although it’s a tremendously successful program, AA wasn’t quite right for me, and I attended a few Alanon meetings, but the kind of empowering strength I needed for my situation wasn’t available. I needed to hear from others who had walked in my shoes—I needed to hear what they were doing that worked. I needed people around me who would lovingly hold me accountable to my own choices as I experienced the journey of parenting and enabling a dysfunctional adult child. I needed an action plan to help me make changes in my life.
I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt as I was writing Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Child that a vital part of the outreach would be the development of an international support group network based on the six SANITY steps I had developed.
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We need a resource that can help us to set appropriate boundaries and get some S.A.N.I.TY. in our households, as well as assuring us that we are walking in God’s will. Following the steps outlined in Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Child is a start in addressing this issue. Attending, and/or facilitating a SANITY Support Group in your community is the next vital step in gaining hope as you walk the often painful path to healing.
I encourage you to listen to your heart as you contemplate becoming involved in this growing outreach community. We need your help—parents and grandparents all over the country need your help. Please consider joining us today in a network designed to strengthen our community.
SANITY Support Group Network -
OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE
Members Needing Support
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Group Facilitators
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Meeting Locations
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Prayer Warriors
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Virtual Volunteers (Internet assistance with online newsletter, blog, chat room, communications, fundraising, and more)
Getting Started
It’s easier than you think.
If you feel led to assemble a SANITY Support Group (SSG) in your community please know that we will do everything in our power to assist you. There will soon be a place on our web site specifically devoted to Group Facilitators. Be sure to sign up for our SSGN E-zine - CLICK HERE!
SANITY Support Groups Facilitators may be parents, grandparents, men, women, married, or single. They may be stay-at-home moms or licensed counselors or therapists. They may be pastors, business professionals, or blue collar workers. SANITY Support Group Facilitators are compassionate volunteers who feel in their heart and soul that this is something they have been called to do for this season—for such a time as this.
Your SSG can consist of two, twenty, or two-hundred people. There is no required minimum or maximum number of member participants. Your group can be held in your home, church, business, storefront, school, or local community center. You can have meetings during the day or in the evening. Your group can meet on weekdays or on the weekend. You may have an open meeting, allowing new members to join at the start of the 12-week session, or a closed meeting where your members are personally invited by you.
The only requirements are:
1. SSG Facilitators commit to facilitating 12-weekly sessions. Meetings are held for 90-minutes once a week for a 12-week period.
2. SSG Facilitators follow the SSG Guidelines (included in the Companion Study Guide) for conducting meetings.
3. Every member has their own copy of the book; Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children.
4. Every member has their own copy of the Companion Study Guide.
5. Each SSG Facilitator must register their group with the SANITY Support Group Network's corporate office to become an officially sanctioned group. This will enable your group to be advertised on our web site, as well as to receive valuable special offers available only to sanctioned groups.(See Step 3.)
That’s it! That—and a willing heart to help fellow brothers and sisters on the journey to hope, healing and freedom.
Ready to begin leading your own SSG?
Let’s start together on the road to SANITY!
Register Your Group Online
Each SSG Facilitator must register their group with the SANITY Support Group Network's corporate office to become an officially sanctioned group. This will enable your group to be advertised on our web site, as well as to receive valuable special offers available only to sanctioned groups.
When you click on the link below you will be directed to an online form that will allow you to send us your information concerning your desire to assemble a SANITY Support Group in your community. This is a vital step in moving to the next level.
Once you complete the form, you will be sent to a private support group page that will give you all the information you need to begin your group.
No order is required at this point to complete the online form. You will need to place your first order for a Deluxe Kit and group members' materials before your first meeting date. You'll receive more details once you have registered your group.
CLICK HERE to complete the online Group Facilitator Registration Form
NOTE: Everything you need to assemble a SANITY Support Group in your community is available in Allison Bottke's 6 Steps to SANITY and 12-Weeks to Freedom Deluxe Kit. The Deluxe Kit comes with a copy of the book, Setting Boundaries with Your Adult Children, a Companion Study Guide, a 12-part CD audio series, a reminder wristband, and a SANITY magnet calendar. The Companion Study Guide contains all the materials you’ll need to assemble and organize a SANITY Support Group. Including a press release and public service announcement to submit to local radio stations and newspapers to announce your group. Also included are flyers to announce your meeting and group orientation, meeting agendas, guidelines, member requirements, and more! Special group discounts are available for groups from five to five-hundred. See Support Group Discounts to purchase materials for your group today! |
NOTE: If you are an individual who wishes to study in the privacy of your home, please click here.
