Participants testify that the Beginning Experience weekend is a transforming experience, providing renewed energy to:
- Be more effective parents
- Return to church
- Advance their education in order to improve their socioeconomic level
What Beginning Experience does for participants:
- Leads to healthier family relationships
- Strengthens stronger spiritual life
- Increases emotional health and self respect
- Verifies that feelings of denial, anger, etc., after the death or divorce
are
"normal"
- Provides tools to deal with the pain of the loss
- Enhances the ability to contribute to employer, church and community
Independent
research published in the Journal of Divorce and Remarriage
shows that the impact of Beginning Experience is more profound and longer lasting
than that of support and informational groups for the single-again.