great barrington
Inviation to change
5-Week ITC Overview
When
Wednesdays, 6 pm ET
Oct 23 - Nov 20, 2024
Where
2 Van Deusenville Rd
Great Barrington, MA 01230
Cost
Who
For anyone who cares about someone struggling with substance use
Hosts
This is a collaboration between CMC:Foundation for Change, Berkshire Transition Network, and Commonwealth Collaborative
Group Leaders
Dr. Jeff Foote and Collin Woods
Description
Skills & support for anyone helping a person who uses substances.
We are offering a 5-session group that covers the basics of the Invitation to Change approach—a set of evidence-backed tools for helping someone who uses substances.
These meetings are set up as an introduction to this approach—a place to try some experiential exercises, to “get a feel” for how these ideas can make an impact, and to provide encouragement to learn, practice, and even stumble. Most of all, these meetings will be a place where you can connect with others who share your experience and where you can learn new approaches to bring into into your relationship with your loved one.
Join us to learn about and explore the Invitation to Change approach to helping.
Registration Required.
This event is a collaboration between CMC:Foundation for Change, Berkshire Transition Network and Commonwealth Collaborative.
Wednesday evenings 6pm
Full Schedule
Oct 23
Oct 30
Nov 6th
Nov 13th
Nov 20th
The Invitation to Change Approach is grounded in compassion, connection, and the understanding that families can have a powerful helping impact on those struggling to change. The ITC Approach draws on evidence-based practices also found in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and the Community Reinforcement and Family Training approach (CRAFT), as well as decades of clinical experience working with families and loved ones.
Built on the three pillars of Understanding, Awareness, and Action, the ITC first illuminates new perspectives on substance use and the process of change; next, it creates a foundation of self-awareness and willingness to engage with emotional pain. Finally, it emphasizes action, teaching communication and behavior skills to promote and support new behaviors in a person struggling with substance use.
The ITC was created with the idea of a waterfall in mind: the evidence-based ideas and strategies you learn will flow from you, to the families you work with, to the loved ones they are desperate to help. Families, clinicians, and those struggling can all take these ideas and methods and put them to use with practice, patience, and self-compassion.