Description
To gain an understanding of the recovery community, it is important to attend an open meeting of a 12-step group or other group focused on recovery from an identified addiction.
Locate an open recovery meeting in your community or an online recovery meeting that you can attend. It must be an open meeting, meaning not a closed group; outside people are welcome to attend. Just like the experience of a person seeking recovery, it is your responsibility to find a list of meetings and explore to find a meeting or group.
Attend at least one recovery meeting.
Write a 4- to 5-page paper that addresses the following questions about your experience:
- Describe the meeting and the major recovery program components you observed during the meeting.
- What was it like for you to engage in this experience? What did you notice about yourself in the process? How does your spirituality influence your experience of the group?
- What do you believe to be the most important take-home message from the experience? What, specifically, from this experiential exercise will inform your work as a therapist?
- What, if anything, was the most surprising part of the experience?
- What would you want to tell someone, who may minimally understand addiction and recovery, about your experience? Consider what you may share with a future client.
- Include any additional personal or professional reflections. Tie your experience to what you have been reading about and learning in class.
Please write this like you attended the meeting ( of course you are writing it like you are me)
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Running head: RECOVERY MEETING ANALYSIS
Recovery Meeting Analysis
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Introduction
Recovery meetings offer a safe, readily accessible and a steady environment to continue to
work towards the process of recovery. These meetings offer a supportive environment that
provides hope and prompts for the significance of an efficient recovery program. In the framework
of addiction recovery, support groups enable recovering clients to work on their recovery and help
other members attain and maintain sobriety (Fisher, 2011). This discourse explores the activities
of an alcoholics’ recovery meeting in my community that I have attended.
Attending a recovery meeting for the first time, seeing individuals congregate seemed
intimidating, and made me wonder what I was expected to do once the meeting started. However,
newcomers were welcomed with joyful faces and words of encouragement, and I noticed a lot of
laughter in that room of recovery. Later, I realized that laughter was a method to share how
everybody in the meeting relates to each other and it was also an expression of reprieve that people
were no longer engaging in destructive behaviors (Loder, 2009). We were served coffee before the
meeting began with a word of prayer. Participants were encouraged not to join in the prayer session
if they were uncomfortable with prayers. The leader asked if there was a first-time attendee
whereby if it was the first meeting and had thirty days or less of abstinence, one was received with
a hug. If one was returning after having missed a meeting or had a relapse, one was given a “keep
coming back,” coin or chip. The items of the meeting were discussed, followed by each ...
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