Stepping Stones – A course for families and friends supporting someone with AOD dependence.
Stepping Stones – A course for families and friends supporting someone with AOD dependence.
24 November
One event on 23 November 2024 at 12:00 am
One event on 24 November 2024 at 12:00 am
One event on 10 November 2024 at 12:00 am
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Stepping Stones to Success
A course for families and friends supporting someone with a drug or alcohol problem.
FDS firmly believes that family and friends are the most important source of support for those struggling with drug and/or alcohol dependence. Families can be a vital force for positive change. Keeping a connection with them is, therefore, essential.
Supporting a drug-dependent person is often a long, overwhelming and exhausting journey. Like any complex journey, getting lost, not knowing where you are, or even where you are heading, is normal.
Stepping Stones provides families and friends with a road map to help them navigate and survive this journey. There are no quick fixes, and we cannot force our family members to change. However, we don’t have to remain helpless.
Stepping Stones is a structured, interactive and experiential course that brings people together
with similar challenges. The collective wisdom and experiences of the group is used to find new ways of coping.
The goal is to turn crisis into coping and help families change and regain their own lives.
Other goals of the course are to:
- Provide a safe, non-judgmental place to share your stories and express emotions.
- Increase confidence and competence in managing drug and/or alcohol use issues.
- Improve your communication skills.
- Become better educated on drugs and/or alcohol.
- Acknowledge and strengthen other family
relationships. - Improve wellbeing through self care.
- Become more resilient, cope better, and survive the
journey intact
Course Details:
- Stepping Stones is a 4-day experiential group program that runs for two weekends.
- Open to those actively supporting someone with a drug or alcohol problem – not open to service providers or the person with an AOD dependence.
- Winner of ‘Excellence in Prevention and Community Education’ – 2009 National Annual Drug and Alcohol Awards.