Recovery Coach Academy

What is a Recovery Coach? Anyone interested in promoting recovery by removing barriers and obstacles to recovery and serving as a personal guide and mentor for people seeking or already in recovery.

The CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© is a 5-day intensive training academy focusing on providing individuals with the skills needed to guide, mentor, and support anyone who would like to enter into or sustain long-term recovery from an addiction to alcohol or other drugs. Provided in a retreat-like environment, the CCAR Recovery Coach Academy© prepares participants by helping them to actively listen, ask really good questions, and discover and manage their own stuff.

CCAR Recovery Coach Academy©
participants will:

• Describe Recovery Coach role and functions
• List the components, core values and guiding principles of recovery
• Build skills to enhance relationships
• Explore many dimensions of recovery of recovery and recovery coaching
• Discover attitudes about self disclosure and sharing your story
• Understand the stages of recovery
• Describe the stages of change and
  their applications
• Increase their awareness of culture, power
  and privilege
• Address ethical and boundary issues
• Experience recovery wellness planning
• Practice newly acquired skills

Each day of the Recovery Coach Academy© is set up so that participants gain the necessary skills and knowledge to be a Recovery Coach by using the principles behind adult learning theory which states:

• Adults are internally motivated and
  self-directed
• Adults bring life experiences and knowledge to learning experiences
• Adults are goal oriented
• Adults are relevancy oriented
• Adults are practical
• Adult learners like to be respected

This training offers 30 (CEU’s) Check with your local licensing board for reciprocity.

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