Welcome to our next Weekly Bulletin. If you would like us to include something on our weekly news, please get in touch by emailing [email protected].
Online SMART Recovery Meetings
Our National Online open meeting timetable and team of facilitators is being refreshed. Over recent months some of the volunteer facilitators and the coordinators have been ready to move on having done the role for some time now. There have not been any natural successors and as such a new timetable and new set of facilitators is being brought in to continue to provide this popular meeting format. The National Online open meetings will be facilitated by a mixture of volunteers and community co-ordinator staff in order to continue the amazing legacy of the previous team. Over the next 12 months, starting at the end of January we will have a timetable of main SMART meetings, Family and Friends and women only meetings spanning a 7 day week. We will also seek to find an LGBTQ+ facilitator. By bringing the online open meetings ‘closer to home’ we will benefit from a more robust timetable, avoid facilitator burn out and re-build a community of peer volunteers. If you are willing and able to step up as an online facilitator for our national meetings and give back to the community that’s supported you please get in touch with central office who will be more than happy to support you.
SMART On The Go!
Evidence based, being outdoors reduces stress and anxiety. Connection brings comfort and boost mood. And we are exercising! So why not combine all of this with SMART?
Kelly will be taking SMART outside to discuss tools, demonstrations on how to use tools and staying connected outdoors.
Beginning 17th February at 10.30am in Linlithgow. This will run for 4 weeks and then we are off to Falkirk for 4 weeks.
Come join us and get smart on the go!
Contact [email protected] for more info.
Removing Barriers, Creating Spaces Webinar
Are you a night owl? If so, please join us for Removing Barriers, Creating Spaces, a free webinar that will focus on diversity and inclusion in recovery—including what it looks like and why it is important to create intentional spaces for the BIPOC community.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Kristine De Jesus, Executive Director and Founder of Students Recover (bio), and a panel discussion will follow. Students Recover is an organization dedicated to creating, “a radically inclusive environment that honors the inherent worth and value of every person.”
Confirmed panelists:
Markita Renee (Speaker, Facilitator, Recovery Coach) LinkedIn profile
Lucrecia Benally (mental health clinician with Navajo Nation in NM)
Geoffrey Vasile (Care Coordinator, Amplify Center) LinkedIn profile
Dr. Kristine De Jesus (Executive Director and Founder of Students Recover)
Date: January 24, 2023
Time: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST (1am UK time)
Cost: Free
*Zoom link will be provided via email prior to webinar.
Registration will be closed 1/23/23 at 11:59 PM EST