In a therapeutic group a therapist would do work with individuals with the group present and have the group participate with that purpose. A support group is for people supporting each other and the facilitator are really facilitators, not therapists. A. People participating and getting resources to help them with their grief. Also, people relating to each other and seeing that their feelings and situations are not unique. Each session builds on the previous session.
Continuity is really important, for people to be there for each session.
We tell the people that it is important that they hang in there because in the beginning they may feel worse than they felt when they came because they are dredging up all their feelings and working through them.