PROMOTING RECOVERY

Recovery Coach Training

This is the first, best step in becoming a Certified Recovery Coach through 3 important designations.

Certified Recovery Coach Course

FIVE-DAY WORKSHOP | COST: $2,195 plus GST ($109.75) for local courses. Courses requiring our travel are $2,395 plus GST ($119.75)

Upcoming Courses:

• April 22-26, 2024, at the Ocean Promenade Hotel

• June 24-28, 2024, at the Ocean Promenade Hotel

• Sept. 23-27, 2024, at the Ocean Promenade Hotel

More classes and Recovery Coach Training dates on the Still Here Calendar

* Out-of-town courses are $2,395 to help cover our travel costs.

We have taken the best of the training available through the Recovery Coach Academy in Hartford, Connecticut, and added 10 hours of additional training. The extra hours allow us to sharpen crucial skills including motivational interviewing, design thinking, mindful communication, and business development. In all, our five-day, 40-hour in-person training program is recognized as the best available in this country.

This program is an intensive training developing helpful, effective attitudes, knowledge, and skills to guide, mentor, and support people along their chosen pathways of recovery from addiction. Based on the internationally recognized model curriculum of the CCAR Recovery Coach Academy©, the Still Here program prepares participants to actively listen, ask effective questions, and discover and manage their own internal influences.

Certification

This course is the best first step to becoming a Canadian Certified Recovery Coach (CCRC), through the Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation (CACCF). It is also the first step toward becoming a Recovery Coach Professional, through CCAR.

Participants will:

• Describe the Recovery Coach role and functions

• Compare and contrast the roles of coaches to those of counsellors or sponsors

• List the components, stages and many pathways of recovery

• Develop and practice the skills of active listening and motivational interviewing

• Discuss the purposes and risks of self-disclosure

• Explore the influence and effects of culture, power and privilege

• Address ethical boundary issues

• Practice recovery wellness planning

• Develop the knowledge to become a local resource broker

• Describe and model design thinking

• Practice mindful listening and implement it in recovery coaching

In their own words …

Praise for the course

“This is an excellent program, professionally delivered and favourably priced. I attended the program in fall of 2021 and have nothing but praise for the Still Here team. This is undoubtedly the way to build national credibility for the recovery coaching network. A must for anyone looking to build a career in front-line addiction support realm.”

~ Stephen Wells MA, CCAC, CBI, PPCC - Principal , Sober Elite , Toronto, Canada

People we’ve trained are working here

Faculty

Upcoming Trainings:

White Rock, BC:

• April 22-26, 2024, at the Ocean Promenade Hotel

• June 24-28, 2024, at the Ocean Promenade Hotel

• Sept. 23-27, 2024, at the Ocean Promenade Hotel

  Cost: $2,195 plus GST ($109.75)*

* Payments a month or more before training are eligible for $100 savings.

Deadlines for entry are two weeks prior to class.

Complete the application at the “Apply Now” button below, indicating your preferred date and location. Then, return it to us, and we’ll notify you if your application has been accepted.

(There is no cost or commitment to the application)

Mentorship

Already taken this course?

Increase your skills with Recovery Coach Mentorship.

Mentorship Coaches

Recovery Coach Training Supplemental

10 HOURS | ONLINE | COST: $495 (CDN), plus GST

The RCT-S provides crucial training for graduates of the CCAR recovery coach training.

We provide this 10 hours online, for which you will receive 10 CEUs toward your Recovery Coach Professional designation (now required for facilitators).

In the two-day training, you will build on some key areas of your training.

• Practice recovery wellness planning

• Develop the knowledge to become a local resource broker

• Describe and model design thinking

• Prevention of Reoccurrence

• Practice mindful listening and implement it in recovery coaching

• Demonstrate knowledge and application of business development in recovery coaching

Our next training will be held Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 8-9, 2022, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific Time.

If you are interested, or need more information, please contact us at rc@still-here.ca

Facilitators

Individual Supervision

5 HOURS | ONLINE | COST: $600, plus GST

You’ve taken the Recovery Coach Training and the follow-up Recovery Coach Mentorship — now it’s time to put those practices to work.

You are now working with clients, and work with us every week to identify your own strengths and opportunities for growth.

We use our own core competencies, helping you bring your skills up to a Master Coach level.

This will raise your skills to the point where you will be a Qualified Recovery Coach, and have the skills necessary for your own top-tier recovery coach business, or make you a natural hire for companies looking for the best talent.

prerequisite

The prerequisite for enrolment in this program is completion of Still Here Recovery Coach Training & Mentorship programs, or equivalent, at our discretion.

Recognized Supervision

The Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification offers one CEU per hour of supervision. As a recognized supervision, it is a viable path to certification.

Supervisors

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