Last year I attended an XJW workshop, I wrote here about my experiences. The workshop was conducted by Dieter Rohmann (http://www.kulte.de), a psychologist and a collegue of Steven Hassen. The idea came from a support group in the South of Germany.
A woman and me were the only participant from the north of Germany. We noticed that there was nothing similar in Northern Germany (except two very religious movement).
It took almost a year but now we decided to start our own support group in Hamburg. In Hamburg there is an organization called KISS (German acronym for Contact and Information Point for Support Groups). They help support groups of any kind, mostly from a health background but there is i.e. also a group of former members of the Newapostolic Church (which is the biggest Christian cult in Germany).
KISS provide a room and even distribute the groups' press releases. I am very happy that by means of that we are independant from ressources of any church.
The first of our monthly meetings will be in the beginning of October.
So far I have advertized on the Internet but I am excited how many will react to the press releases.
I have started an XJW-Support Group!
by GermanXJW 10 Replies latest jw friends
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GermanXJW
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mouthy
All the best in your effort ... I had a group for 14 years( It is a lot of heart ache listening to the sad,sad, stories )But dont get discouraged if not to many show at the beginning- we started with 5 -then as years went on it became bigger & bigger.the last had 57...As I said before - we have "helped" 700 to know what the WT is about ( we counted them all up one day) some went on to worship in a church- some never did- some still keep in touch-some died-But the blessing's you will receive by people telling you what the group has done for them is overwhelming. Good luck my friend
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Kenneson
Good for you. May it be a successful endeavor. You will need to give us a future report when you have established a group. Best wishes.
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shotgun
As our Aussie friends would say...Good on ya Mate!
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Special K
Hey German JW
Face to face support groups are probably a great thing
Keep us informed as your group builds.
This forum is a support group. Pretty darn good one
special k
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outnfree
Happy to hear it, Mein Freund!
Vielen Gluck! (did I get that right?)
outnfree
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Beans
Wunderbar!
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GermanXJW
BTW, Hamburg also has a local XJW-forum: http://www.sektenausstieg.net
Today, there was a (small) ad in the paper informing about the existence of the support group:
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Joyzabel
Good for you! What a wonderful idea.
Like mouthy said, there will be many heartaches to listen to but remember the wonderful job of helping others you are doing.
Hugs,
j2bf
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GermanXJW
Our first meeting was now almost a month ago and very successful: there were seven in attendance. There are already some new people that will join us at the second meeting.
I'll keep you informed.