Event Archive

Self-Recovery: Finding Balance in Care of Self and Others

Saturday, February 19, 2022 @ 10am – 3pm

A 4-Hour Live Online Workshop for 8 participants

WORKSHOP OUTLINE:

Introduction

The development of this treatment material
The importance of this topic

Self-Recovery

History of Codependence
Current Understandings
Meaning as Nancy Johnston works with it
4 Elements of Self-Recovery

Out-of-Balance: The Holes We Can Fall Into (When We Were Just Trying to Help)

What’s out-of-balance?
Effects on the Other Person
Effects on Self

In-Balance: The Health We Gain Through the 4 Interlocking Elements of Self-Recovery

Self-Understanding with Compassion
Self-Awareness with Calm Presence
Self-Competence with Confidence
Self-Attunement with Care

Self-Recovery in Action: Putting this together for Your Self

NAADAC // Your Healthy Self: Skills for Working with Codependent Behaviors

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 @ 3-4:30pm

Description:

Offering treatment for family and friends of addicts is imperative to recovery for all. We know addiction to be a family disease and efforts are certainly made to provide services for everyone. But often the family services are limited in time and resources. They are also limited because family members can be difficult to engage in treatment for themselves.

This webinar will use a power point presentation that I designed for the session participants to use directly with their clients. The power point presentation is actually an electronic booklet entitled “Your Healthy Self: Skills for Working with Codependent Behaviors” and is available to all, free on the internet through my website: www.nancyljohnston.com. Anyone attending the webinar can use this already-available booklet as the webinar occurs.

This webinar is intended to equip the treatment practitioner with a program applicable to anyone dealing with issues of loss of self in others, focusing on practical, behavioral ways to define codependency, visual tools to enhance understanding and recovery, and four specific areas of skill development “Illusions, Detaching, Boundaries, and Spirituality.” It is especially designed for use by clinicians working with family members affected by addiction and/or those working with individuals in recovery from addictions who are engaged in more advanced phases of their recovery.

With this electronic booklet as the text, this webinar will both educate clients about codependent behaviors as well as help them learn skills to manage their tendencies to take care of, please, manage, control, and/or fix others. It is packaged in a way so as to offer both clinicians and clients, whether individually or in groups, as much information as possible within a reasonable amount of time. I have come to define codependency as over-functioning in someone else’s life and under-functioning in our own life. To this end, the skills taught in this workshop can help the individual with codependent behaviors find a healthier balance in care of self and others.

Learning Objectives:

Learn an organized way to educate clients about codependent behaviors and healthy management of those behaviors.
Help clients understand the importance of a healthy self.
Learn four visual tools to cultivate a healthy self.
Learn skill sets in four areas which can help to cultivate a healthy self: Facing Illusions, Detaching, Setting Healthy Boundaries, and Developing Spirituality.

Farley Center // Your Healthy Self: Skills for Working with Codependent Behaviors

Williamsburg, VA // Friday, April 22, 2016 @ 9:00am-11:00am

Overview:

This session is intended to equip the treatment practitioner with a program applicable to anyone dealing with issues of loss of self in others. It is especially designed for use by clinicians working with family members affected by addiction and/or those working with individuals in recovery from addictions who are engaged in more advanced phases of their recovery.

Objectives:

In this program, participants will:

Learn an organized way to educate clients about codependent behaviors and healthy management of those behaviors.
Learn how to help clients understand the importance of a healthy self.
Learn many skills in four areas that can help to cultivate a healthy self:

Facing illusions
Detaching
Setting healthy boundaries
Developing spirituality

Lettie Flores, Ph.D., Radio Interview

Richmond, VA