Elixir pilots unique life skill program for addiction recovery clinic
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 4:55PM Montrose Place is one of the most well regarded recovery clinics globally and it has really put South Africa on the map in both addiction and eating disorder recovery. Montrose approached Elixir and asked the organisation to design a program that gave people in recovery access to some of it's innovative and creative processes as part of their life skill development. The challenge was that the program had to build on and compliment an already specialised and life skill dominated program.
Elixir's program was developed and is being provisionally called the Creativity Incubator. The whole philosophy behind the program is that one of our core needs as individuals is to express ourselves creatively and through our childhood and further on through addiction, we are conditioned out of our unique forms of expression such that we met our other core emotional need, to be accepted by our family, friends and the beliefs, norms and conventional thinking of our community. This lack of self esteem and authenticity is one of the dominating symptoms of addiction and to ensure peoples long term recovery we have to re-engage them in their creative confidence and potential. The program offers some highly creative processes that Elixir has picked up through its involvement in some of the top creative forums. The program is 9 weeks long and includes the following exciting processes:
1-Nature Connections
2-Creative Movie Trailers & Story Telling
3-Musical Orchestras
4-Giraffe Talk-Creative & Non Violent Communication
5-Bio Danza
6-Eco-Facilitation
7-Theatre Sports
8-Lego Play
9-Vision Questing
To learn more about this program, please contact Jeremy on 021 685 6744.
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