Group Therapy Activities for Addiction Recovery, 12 Session Plans + Worksheets, Substance Abuse Counseling Tools, Facilitator Guide PDF

Twelve ready-to-run 90-minute peer recovery group sessions. Written for house managers, peer leaders and anyone handed a room to run without a curriculum or clinical training.

WHAT YOU GET
One PDF, 34 pages:
- Cover and a how-to-open page
- You do not need a license to run a good room: who this is for
- How to run the room: go first, get every voice out early, don't fix people
- The 90 minutes: the same session skeleton every week
- Contents and running order: which night to run when
- 12 sessions, 2 pages each (24 pages). Each facilitator page has the opening round, a 15-minute teaching block you deliver in your own words, discussion prompts, what usually goes wrong and what to say, and the closing round. Each session also has a participant handout.
- Group agreement for new members to sign
- Attendance and session log
- Scope, safety and use
- A closing note from Joey

THE TWELVE SESSIONS
1. Why You're Here
2. Cravings, Without White-Knuckling
3. Resentment
4. Boredom and the Empty Calendar
5. People, Places, and the Phone in Your Pocket
6. Shame and Guilt Are Not the Same Thing
7. The First Thirty Minutes
8. Money, Work, and the Envelopes You Stopped Opening
9. Repairing What You Broke
10. The Body: Sleep, Food, and Moving
11. Relapse Is a Chain, Not a Moment
12. What You're Building Instead

HOW TO USE IT
Read the four facilitator pages once. Run the sessions in the listed order for a new group. Print the handout for each person that night.

Peer support material. Not therapy, medical advice or addiction treatment. Crisis: call or text 988. Treatment referral: SAMHSA 1-800-662-4357.
Print the facilitator pages and handouts as often as you need for the group you run.

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HOW TO OPEN YOUR FILES
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Or go straight there: etsy.com/your/purchases

Tap the file and it opens in whatever reads PDFs on your phone, tablet or computer. Nothing to install.

Printing? Letter size, scaling off. Print one section at a time so you can reprint a page whenever you need it.

Can't find it? Message this shop and I will send the file straight to you.

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For a sober living house: the Facilitator Edition in this shop adds the Relapse Prevention Worksheets and the Step 4 and 5 pages, licensed for one house for a year.