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Group Work
- Discuss issues with others who also struggle with
them and get their feedback.
- Learn to disclose.
- Prayer together and demonstrate mutual support.
- Hold each other accountable.
- Learn to accept others and feel accepted by them.
- Learn how to generalize newly learned principles
and abilities.
- Relate the process and new information to gospel
principles.
- Learn relationship skills; learn to be assertive.
- Develop relationships with priesthood quorum/Relief
Society, sports team, support group, etc.
- Experience activities as a bridge to the real world
(for example, ski trips with men/women who don't experience SSA).
- Provide service to others as a group, both inside
and outside Evergreen.
- Education about relationships and other issues and
open discussion about it.
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Individual Work
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Read books on gospel subjects.
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Read books on same-sex attraction,
masculinity/femininity, addictions, and related subjects from LDS
authors, Christian authors, and professionals.
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Study Evergreen workbook.
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Personal prayer.
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Personal exploration and growth;
identify and relate to one's divine nature.
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Develop personal relationship with God
and Jesus Christ.
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Develop one-on-one, nurturing
relationships with family, close friends, an acquaintances.
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Provide service to others, both inside
and outside Evergreen.
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Group Therapy
- Work on relationship and communication issues
(what's going on between participants).
- Reinforce desired new traits.
- Experiment with interpersonal relationships to
achieve mutuality.
- Disclose, hold accountable, give feedback, express
support, validate each other.
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Individual Therapy
- Identify and resolve personal issues and underlying
factors with help of therapist.
- Receive encouragement, awareness, and insight.
- Learn to internalize new information.
- Learn to generalize.
- Identify personal strengths and weaknesses.
- Identify and remove barriers.
- Identify how to live congruently with personal
definition.
- Learn to overcome addictions.
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