For those who are in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, developing and implementing new coping skills and healthy alternatives to using can at times be fearful and frustrating.

In this three day residential workshop, the focus will be on building new pieces of your life that help keep you free from addiction. Just as the alcoholic once turned to alcohol for a transformative experience, they must now look to the process of recovery for inner peace and comradeship.  We will identify and explore your undesirable behaviours, character traits and stuck points.

If you’ve been struggling with having more joy and meaning in your life, this may very well be the catalyst that unleashes the greatness you know is inside you, waiting to burst forth.

The workshop is designed to help participants renew their commitment to addiction recovery.  This program is designed explicitly for those in recovery who want to go deeper, and discover issues and feelings that may be inhibiting their desire to be fully alive.  We will explore the next step in recovery and find ways to experience, as the Big Book says, “A life beyond our wildest dreams”.  This workshop is an ongoing part of the Ledgehill Treatment and Recovery Centre aftercare process.

The program is open to alumni who have come through a minimum 28 day core addiction treatment program at Ledgehill, and to anyone who is in recovery and wishing to take their life to the next level.

Workshop description

Beginning on Thursday night with dinner, we will build a loving and supportive community of peers.  Starting with an oath of confidentiality, we will engage in a highly experiential process as we develop the trust and support that will enable you to do your own personal work.

This is not a workshop of lectures and PowerPoint presentations; it is a process designed for you to look deeply into your own future and focus on the life that is trying to emerge through you.  Participants will engage in personal story telling, and the exploration of what is needed to take their life to the next level.  This is not a silver bullet.  This is deep personal work that will open you up to your potential, and allow you to engage perhaps for the first time in a deep and meaningful way with yourself, your family and your career.

The focus will be on personal empowerment, through the practice of intentional living and open spaces created in community, in which individuals can learn to express themselves with integrity, creativity and passion.  This is a process of unblocking your unexpressed feelings of anger, fear and grief.  It is through this process that you can reclaim your joy, your passion, and full meaning in your daily life.  Using a variety of techniques including guided fantasy, primal therapy, role-play, gestalt and bioenergetics, you will learn to transform your repressed emotions so that your passion for life may be fully realized.

Who can attend

Alumni of Ledgehill’s core residential program, and anyone who has been in recovery for at least three months.

Workshop fees including the program, three nights accommodation and all meals and snacks are $995.00+ HST.

Please call us to arrange your place on our next workshop.