Mastering your Recovery Coaching with Skilled Professionals
This is where heart-led recovery coaches learn to live their purpose
Recovery Coach Mastery
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Cognitive Dissonance
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“I want to change, but…” Explore what happens when someone's actions
and values collide, and how a coach can work with that tension without
pushing for an answer.
Skills Practice: Cognitive Dissonance
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Practise conversations where what someone says they value and what they
are doing don't quite line up. Learn to explore the discrepancy with
curiosity rather than confrontation.
Generative Moments
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Some questions change the direction of a conversation. Learn to
recognize and create moments that invite new thinking, insight
and possibility.
Skills Practice: Generative Moments
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Practise recognizing openings in a coaching conversation and responding
with questions and reflections that invite discovery rather than simply
gathering more information.
Reoccurrence Prevention & Management: Part 1
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Look beyond simply avoiding relapse. Explore vulnerability, triggers,
warning signs and the conditions that help someone protect and
strengthen recovery.
Skills Practice: Reoccurrence Prevention
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Practise coaching conversations around vulnerability, triggers and
warning signs while helping the person identify their own strengths,
resources and strategies for protecting recovery.
Reoccurrence Prevention & Management: Part 2
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What happens when recovery gets shaky or substance use returns?
Explore how coaches respond without judgment, panic or taking control.
Skills Practice: Responding to Reoccurrence
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Practise responding when substance use has returned. Learn to remain
curious and non-judgmental while helping the person explore what happened,
what they need now and what comes next.
Designing a Life in Recovery
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Recovery is not simply about stopping something. Explore how coaches
help people begin imagining and building a life with meaning,
connection, purpose and possibility.
Skills Practice: Designing a Life in Recovery
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Bring the program together in a coaching conversation focused on what
someone wants to build, not simply what they want to leave behind.
Practise helping people explore meaning, connection, purpose and
possibility while remaining firmly in the coaching role.