Community Recovery Groups

look into this training session by a street

connect on the subject of community recovery groups.

My name is Alex Nikola, Miss Service Development manager, that street connect,

and I'll be taking you through the subject today.

Recovery groups on group based support has been in existence for many years Now.

People find it useful for finding a safe place where they can share Colin issues,

explore recovery methods and share common experiences in other words,

encouraging one another in a group setting.

Hopefully, today you'll understand why ST Connect do this. How we do it

on ways that you can do a PSA part of our agency.

Hope you enjoy this session.

Firstly, I want to look at in today's presentation is focused on the four areas

personally, why we deliver groups.

Secondly,

what we delivering Group's third Way,

How we doing other groups and fourthly,

things we must be aware of when we don't have our groups.

These four heading should keep it simple,

and hopefully we'll be able to explore these in term.

So looking for flee at why we deliver groups.

The objectives are fourfold in delivering groups, firstly

with the other groups for meaningful

exploration of recovery issues and strategies.

As I said, some people

coming together get a chance to speak about

what has worked in the journey was not worked in there. Jeremy and General.

Generally, people just sharing with people help him t o helping them to understand

where they are.

The second objective of recovery groups is for people to take action

around developing knowledge and behaviours addressing individual physical for

psychological, social, spiritual needs.

Talking therapies are powerful, but if it's only talking is just talking shop.

We always have a call to action on in the world groups for without action.

Nothing really changes, so we encourage people through group to take action.

The fourth objective, all groups, is for people to adopt.

Positive attitude and skills

and basically change of behaviours

work steadily through

on sea change happening in their lives. And finally,

we want to offer they they got with the hope of the gospel on

prayer.

We are quite unique in terms of specialised addiction

services that's reconnecting that we look at a fourfold

nature of man

and will come into that shortly.

So these are the reasons why we do

the groups.

Let's looking at what we deliver now. Next in groups,

we deliver a range of therapeutic activities focused on

these

specific four areas.

Firstly, we look at the biological aspects and influences recovery

Well, that means as man is a physical creature.

Man needs to take care of his body.

It says The 1st 26 20 you were bought at a price.

Therefore, glorify God with your party.

Many people with addiction problems so on.

They haven't fully understood the damage,

the unseen damage that is being done to the bodies

so we can help people understand the consequences of substance years.

But not just that.

We encourage them to adopt healthy lifestyles, including nutrition,

fitness and other things like that, so that people can touch, start to see no,

only the feeling better.

They're looking better too.

So we emphasise this part of world groups

the biological

aspect

andan floors influences in recovery.

Secondly, we focus on the psychological as well as the biological.

This is a huge area

where by people fall very often

and that they haven't ruled in mind.

They haven't government or thoughts.

Many people we worked with have

significant issues from the past. Around drama.

There's childhood experiences,

difficult behaviours, difficult upbringings they've adopted.

A number of practises are suffering from shame,

guilt and all source of psychological conditions.

We help people to see

to Billy separate the person

from the ice so that they can understand

how to look at themselves better way better,

how to govern in mine and put any perspective,

things that have happened in their lives

on use, effective techniques to overcome these

so their manes air clear and they can concentrate on recovery.

So we deal with the biological, the psychological.

We also deal with social aspects of recovery, too.

Humans are social beings on. They have been from in for about equity,

even Genesis to 18. God declares, it's not good for man to be alone.

We find a lot of people get into addiction because of peer pressure,

social conformity, group belonging, and so on.

On. This can really down a path of destruction. But also

same principles can apply in recovery

in that below 90. A supportive, helpful positive group

helps one to actually persevere

and recovery

rather than being part of a negative destructive group.

We teach people how to overcome these relationships and indeed to cut off

unhelpful and dangerous relationships and start to find

new support of

on helpful societies round about them

and forth. Therapeutic aspect that we focus on that street connect

is the spiritual aspect of recovery

on. It's important for people to realise sometimes by the time people come to

ST connect or come to services in general, for that matter.

Generally speaking, they have lost hoping themselves to a large degree.

So it is important to let people know that there is hope outside of themselves.

When people are alone point,

it's important to be able to tell them there is hope in the world of college.

So as a Christian organisation,

we know there is power

in the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And sharing this with people can sometimes be liberating for many.

So these are the four therapeutic aspect

about recovery Groups are delivered by street committee,

so such is what we deliver. Looking at the next subject to

for after what were you ever we look at how we deliver. Also,

the most fundamental important thing about how we deliver groups is preparation

Workers must be prepared

to bring effective on relevant support in people's lives.

The first aspect of preparation is facility set up

place in the place must be set up to be clean, well ventilated,

spacious, no trip Hauser's will. Sharks lying about

table and seating arrangements to be laid open and well.

We must ensure the duties are started at least 30 minutes before any group starts.

The workers have taken the time to go over and ensure

that food is Lee know if it's their snatcher later,

and that the war background is warm, comfortable

and ideally welcoming,

perhaps with some more worship music playing in the background.

Health people come on feel welcome.

Practical preparation.

The second aspect of preparations programme preparation.

The group content must be fully understood

on

as far as possible. Use variation. Audio, visual,

tactile, kinesthetic, other methods of communication for people.

Some people are very laudatory. Some people are very visual. Good groups

combine a combination of all these things.

Workers must rehearse the flow of the group. Also,

someone must take the lead

on. If there's another worker of two workers, they must agree their roles.

Secondary third workers are important to keep a group. Following is well,

if there's no much of a relatively new

group and know much information's coming back.

Other workers conjoined and give examples, and so on.

All materials obviously must be there, so the place must be properly set up.

All materials must be their workers have agreed. The roles

notebooks, pains, pencils and so on foot charge must be prepared and in place.

Also, the group rules should be there as well.

Any group for was it must come up with the group

norms that will come to that a little bit later.

But these should be probably displayed through for every group.

Also to remind people

of agree behaviours and so on.

Following on from that prayerful preparations of porter as well,

workers must take the time to meditate and pray together,

asking for God's blessing in favour

upon the group.

You know,

unless the Lord builds the house, the labour in vain.

That bill that's so is important if we're gonna

talk about spiritual matters as well as the bio psycho social matters

that we know that we got the mind of God in every circumstance

here is well,

preparation matters and must be prayerful preparation to

also, if we're going to prayer we must have the people prepared.

I mean, the workers prepare.

Workers must be competent in delivering

groups.

Now,

if you've no delivered a lot of groups before, that might seem a bit daunting.

But practise makes perfect.

Get a mirror

rehearse in front of the mirror, rehearse body language, rehearse gestures,

rehearsed intonation of voice.

Rehearse how you're going to bring people in different parts of the group

we hear practise.

Have it in your mind.

Preparation of the workers is vitally important

again. People preparation.

Make sure people get personal welcomes.

Make sure if anyone's coming for the first time, they get induction,

telling them where the toilet is, what the flow of the group will be.

Make sure there's a cheque in for the group.

Make sure people get a chance to be welcomed

and say something that started the group and,

if possible,

include ice breakers. Icebreakers are fun.

The the break down barriers in terms of communication encourage people

to enjoy

groups,

people, preparation matters

and finally, in terms of preparation, the personnel must be well prepared,

rehearsed, well prepared, ready to deliver the groups

to those

coming to seek support.

These are the five specific areas of how we must prepare to the liver

and finally, what else must be considered?

Well, group size must be considered first of all,

capital at 5 to 1 ratio is the maximum number you would have so few to workers.

The maximum group size would be 10.

With a mature, established group. You could extend that slightly,

but again,

be wise to the numbers coming

secondly as well. What we must things when, when with living groups remember,

we must have group rules of it timekeeping. What happens to late comers,

how the lake and someone be in the coming?

Also, we should have a group rose of it, sharing

what is appropriate to share what is no appropriate.

This year we should have a conversation

about the language. People use what is acceptable, what isn't

in terms of presentation. We don't do. We want people coming

under the influence. The answer to that should be No,

the group needs to buy, and the great group needs to own the group.

And they do that by creating group rules with support from the workers.

There are a number of issues here participations will want,

but people to participate

on standard addresses will want people just to dress clean

on appropriately.

So these things must be agree.

There were on a group and as I said, Pen Doc, every meeting

and finally what else must be considered as the group duration

action? Planning an evaluation,

typically one of our no more than two hours for group

sufficient comfort breaks must be planned and so on and so forth.

On the end, every group should finish

with action planning,

action

people rating and deciding what their actions are going to be

on conclude

with an evaluation

of how good the group was.

So it's important to do these things, remembering that we have with

people have a limited attention span, we cannot keep groups going too long.

If needs be a subject of important

can be spread over a couple of sessions.

All goals should always be smart.

Action should be specific, measurable, attainable,

relevant and time bound.

I think it is well vent evaluations

must be completed to help us to continually

developed the group content

and such a such of the core issues

that must be addressed when the living don't delivering

community recovery groups

as I said. My name is Alex Nickel on the service development manager at ST Connect.

I could be contacted at Alex nearly exact street, you know,

street connect dot co dot UK.

Please do remember, for we have a comprehensive range

at ST Connect of operations manuals.

The operations manuals for community recovery

groups gives the information I've given

plus a lot. Maura's well

on all workers should review it

on. Make sure they're comfortable with the content of that.

What? You have completed this group.

Please do contact street connect and letters.

No, you have completed it that we can forward on your completion certificate

on a new evaluation of how

effective you have found this group. How helpful

you have found this

towards you delivering community. Recover girls.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you for your attention.

Hope this has been helpful on informative for you.

And we look forward to

delivering the next training session

for our partners. Such issue.

Thank you very much.

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