An Education on Addiction
Part of alcohol and drug rehab is to better educate our clients on the nature of addiction. Unless they have already gone through a rehabilitation process before, the alcoholic/addict is unaware what substance abuse is doing to them. We provide educational and engaging lectures and workshops to teach clients what they need to know about the disease of addiction, and the work of the recovery process. Members of the Cirque Lodge staff and visiting professionals provide a number of different topics of learning.
Family Week is also filled with educational elements and lectures. Residents and their family members are educated on the impact of addiction on the family system. Workshops and lectures also address codependency, enabling and planning for the future with aftercare. Alcohol and drug rehab at Cirque Lodge is a 12-step program, and we emphasize the disease concept. A lecture on this concept is provided to help family members better understand the impact that alcoholism and drug addiction has on the central nervous, and its resulting behaviors. An educated family is better prepared for helping their loved one through the recovery process.
The education continues at Cirque Lodge outside a classroom setting. A large portion of what is learned out of recovery is discovered with experiential work. Indoor and outdoors activities and challenges teach imperative lessons on the recovery concepts. The mountain is a venue for learning about the 12-step program. The ropes activities challenge the behaviors of addiction. This education can be an influential piece to a lasting and successful sobriety.
