We’re so glad you asked!

Our small groups meet virtually, and are completely confidential. If you fill out a form on our site to join a small group, we’ll reach out to you for more details and ask for your time availability. As soon as possible, we’ll set you up with a group, including a group leader, that fits your scheduling needs! Before you join a group, we also ask you to sign a participant agreement form that protects you and our ministry team by explaining processes and clarifying expectations.

Our small groups use a curriculum that we’ve created ourselves, based on the unique needs of women that we’ve encountered through our experiences of healing ourselves and accompanying others on their healing journeys. Our curriculum is reviewed by a team of psychologists, clergy, and clinicians who make sure the content is morally sound and emotionally safe.

Once you’re in a group, your moderator adds you to a group chat and sets up a meeting time, and then you’re good to go!

We would love to have you in our community of leaders.

Moderators are women who have undergone the journey of recovery from sexual sin themselves, and are ready to accompany women on their road to healing. While we don’t have specific requirements for how long you have to be in recovery before volunteering as a moderator, we do evaluate in a discussion with each of our moderators in the application process whether or not it seems like a good fit—both for you as an individual, and us as an organization! No one is rejected; instead, sometimes we don’t pursue certain applications solely because a need for deeper healing is detected at some point in the application process.

Each of our moderators leads a group that meets virtually twice a month on average, guided by our curriculum, for a duration of about 9-12 months, depending on the frequency of meetings. We assign groups based on your schedule and availability to make coordinating meeting times easy for you! Each meeting typically last about an hour and a half.

Moderators are also supported through an exclusive, confidential group chat and optional weekly open forum and formation meetings. Questions and sharing that protect the confidentiality of group members are always welcome!

Yes, yes, yes!

We currently have group members in over 20 countries, and nothing makes us more excited! We’ll still coordinate based on scheduling availability, but no matter where you’re from, you’re more than welcome here.

There’s a lot under our umbrella.

Our curriculum and ministry are aimed at helping women overcome and heal from sexual addiction, compulsion, and sin—we use all of these terms, because we know each person’s experience is unique!

We welcome group members who struggle with pornography, masturbation, sexual sin in relationships, sexual fantasizing, or have experiences working in sex work or the porn industry, to name a few! If it’s something harming your beautiful, God-given sexuality and you have a desire to heal from it—we’re here to help.

Gosh, we relate!

If you’re experiencing fear or apprehension about joining a small group, that’s completely normal! In fact, it shows how serious and meaningful group recovery is.

Our curriculum is designed to help you open up your story in a way that’s gentle, appropriate, and honest—there’s no rush to give all the details. If you’re nervous, you’re also welcome to sit back in the first meeting or two. Showing up is most important, but we completely understand the need to take your time!

Yes, and yes.

Magdala small groups are not a replacement for working toward recovery with a professional, but they are a good supplement. We highly recommend pursuing therapy with an experienced, faithful clinician! Our groups are chiefly pastoral or spiritual, with elements of psychological work—they are not clinical!

We’d love to help you start an in-person group on your campus.

Visit our “Campus Groups” page for more information.