Women in Recovery Gathering and telling my Story
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Women in Recovery Gathering and telling my Story
- 1. Women in Recovery Empowering the Spirit, Mind and Body
- 2. Quiet Time Check-in Binder decorating Meanwhile, tell Stories Use Lifelines
- 4. Name Feeling Last use 12 step meetings? What happened? Who attended a meeting?
- 5. If you did not attend both meetings • Did you think about it? • What prevented your attendance? • What can you do differently this week? 12 step meetings • Give copy of attendance sheet to facilitator for records
- 6. Personalize your binder Colored paper Add pictures Write your name Stickers Drawings Patterns Favorite animals or shapes
- 7. Get out your lifeline and use as a quick reference for telling your story
- 9. Where were you born, number of siblings, parents, other caregivers Relationship highlights Drugs and alcohol Summary – turning points Take breaks individually, as needed, or between participant stories
- 10. Create a clean copy of Lifelines Add to your story Make a neater copy of story Finish decorating binders
Hinweis der Redaktion
- To gain a better sense of who we are by outlining and telling our stories. To gain more understanding and respect for each other by hearing the similarities and differences in our lives.
- Relaxation activity during this quiet time is visualization of a peaceful place. This involves closing their eyes and imagining. Help them deepen the experience by asking about temperature, scents, texture, etc.
- Remind participants that they need to say their names, how they are feeling now, and when their last use was. Be sure to collect their attendance sheets and make copies. Have the participants fill in the part of their incentive sheet that says how many incentives they receive to help understand the relationship between their behavior and the resulting reward. Focus check-in on AA/NA meetings. Who attended a meeting? If you did not attend both meetings, did you think about it? What prevented your attendance? What can you do differently this week? Discuss other options besides 12-step meetings
- Prepare copies and binder at least one day prior to the group meeting. See Adult Phase 1 Binder to check for binder contents. Pass these out after check-in. Bring out the decorating supplies
- Have everybody pull out their lifelines and ask if anybody was able to work on their lifeline. Review the suggestions on the lifeline and emphasize they know best what events may be significant. There are no “right” answers. Take 10-15 minutes, if needed, for everybody to have something on their lifeline sheet.
- Tell people that we are going to go around and tell our life stories, but not in great detail. This is very difficult for some participants. Reassure them that it is hard to be brief, and that is why we are going to use the lifelines. Explain that if we don’t finish the stories, then an additional group meeting may be scheduled. The easiest and most convenient thing would be for everybody to finish today. During the stories, everybody should be decorating their binders. This activity takes the pressure off the story-teller, and it really does help them to share openly about their lives. Instruct participants to listen carefully and do not interrupt with questions.
- Pass out another clean copy of the lifelines and tell people that after having listened to everybody’s life story, they may want to add to their story. They may have noticed a different perspective on patterns in their life. Invite them to make a neater, nicer copy of their lifeline to keep in the front of their binder. We will use the lifelines again when we review relationships with drugs and with other people. Ask them to finish decorating their binder at home, if needed. They need to bring it back the following week and every week thereafter. Provide binder storage for them if their circumstances require. Binders cannot be taken into corrective facilities.