Volunteer role: Online Support Group Facilitator for Faith to Faithless
[Roughly 2 hours once or twice a month]
Faith to Faithless, part of Humanists UK, provides dedicated support to individuals who leave high-control religious groups.
The service is led largely by people with lived experience who understand the unique challenges of stepping away from a closed community. Leaving a high-control religion can be a deeply disruptive transition: people often face sudden isolation through the loss of lifelong family and social networks, and the challenge of building an independent life from scratch. In some cases, individuals may also experience other pressures or religious abuses, or struggle to find understanding from public services.
Alongside our awareness-raising, professional training, and campaigning work, we run dedicated peer support services to ensure that nobody has to navigate religious exit alone.
Read more about what Faith to Faithless does.
We are looking for experienced volunteers to join our existing facilitation team for our weekly online peer support sessions, which take place every Thursday from 19:00 to 20:00 via Zoom (with facilitators logging on at 18:45).
Unlike our informal monthly socials, these weekly sessions are structured, topic-led spaces where participants explore the deeper, more challenging realities of leaving a high-control religion.
Facilitators work on a flexible rota, typically facilitating once or twice a month rather than every week.
Take a look at the full role description and person specification (.docx or .pdf) to help you decide whether the role is right for you, and consider what you would get out of the role as well as what you might bring to it.
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- Department
- Faith To Faithless Support for Ex-Religious People
- Role
- Peer Support Facilitator
- Location
- UK-wide
- Employment type
- Volunteer
- Job type
- Volunteer
- Remote Status
- Fully remote
About Humanists UK
We started out in 1896, and since then we’ve always been a growing movement at the forefront of social change. Today we’re trusted by over 120,000 members and supporters and over 70 local and special interest affiliates to promote humanism.
We put humanism into practice through effective campaigning and services, supporting lasting change for happier, more fulfilling lives. Our policies are informed with the support of over 150 of the UK’s most prominent philosophers, scientists, and other thinkers and experts and we seek to advance them with the help of over 100 parliamentarians in membership of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group. We bring like-minded people together to make change happen, and we strive to be their voice in public debate, drawing on contemporary humanist thought and the worldwide humanist tradition.
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