Refuge
Refuge Open Group begin in Fall 2025 for signups!
Questions? Contact refuge@idcpdx.com
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” - Mary Oliver
An unexamined life is like a gift ungiven. Refuge is a courageous community committed to mental, spiritual, and emotional healing and flourishing. We believe transformation happens in the good soil of honest self-reflection, accountability, acceptance, and encouragement.
Do you feel stuck in unhealthy patterns of behavior or relationships? Have you experienced trauma or loss? Are you ready to be free IN circumstances you’re not yet free FROM? Refuge strives to be a community where Christ’s compassion finds its best expression in our very real human struggles.
All Refuge Groups typically meet on Monday nights. See below for our 5 group descriptions often offered and details for each.
Contact refuge@idcpdx.com for any questions.
Refuge Groups
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A blend of Biblical principles, the science of the brain, and proven recovery strategies for freedom from self-defeating behaviors while addressing the underlying issues that drive them.
This group is offered separately for men and women.
16 weeks long.
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This coed group offers grievers the specific actions needed to process loss in all its forms.
ex: Loss of faith
Loss of career and financial issues
Loss of health
10 weeks long
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This group offers tools to help participants understand how our past shapes our present. Learn how everyday setbacks are rooted in our unaddressed wounds and trauma -- and step into healing with evidence-based, faith-filled coping skills and resources.
This group is offered separately for men and women.
Think of this group as Genesis Process "lite"
10 weeks
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Like English, French, or ASL art is a language. In this beta-group we will use art to speak for and to our pain as we connect to our brokenness.
No art expertise or experience necessary to join this group and all supplies will be provided!
10 weeks long.
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Open Group is for people who aren't sure where they fit in Refuge but would like the community of Refuge, and a basic understanding of brokenness and healing.
This ongoing group will be open anytime for both men and women.