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I wonder if this might be an interesting opportunity for a young resident of an addiction TC? Would need to be under 24
RY
http://www.the-raft-of-corks.com/EMNA/youth_project.htm
European Youth Project (alcohol/other drugs)
Invitation to Participate
European Youth Training in Mutual-help (alcohol/substance use) core competencies.
The overall concept of this training project is that, faced with a growing culture of alcohol and substance usage among the young, the daily-practice of EMNA’s mutual-help members entails a range of competencies and positive attitudes to life and health which young adults can acquire and, in turn, transmit to their peers.
Vie Libre is proposing to offer an initial training in mutual-help core competency training and to offer on-going supervision of young trainers in the future.
What are the core competencies of mutual-help for alcohol dependent people?
Mutual help manages to transform people’s lives largely through a set of relationship tools which individuals have acquired in their journey out of dependency. These are such things as listening skills, self-responsibility, self-positioning, learning to refuse and to accept, to give and to ask. These simple essentials are also the pillars of an addiction free life. Non-judgemental, genuine and accepting attitudes characterise mutual help.
These, combined with an understanding of alcohol/substance related issues, awareness of resource networks for treatment and a very basic understanding of motivational psychology form the platform on which lives are changed for the better.
The aim of the training project is to change the alcohol/substance focused culture among some groups of young people. The project will afford individuals an opportunity, initially to be trained, and then to train others, in the core competencies of mutual help. These key skills are based upon the quality of human relationships.
The target population of the project is young people aged 18-24. These may or may not be users or former users. Initial training will be in French, Spanish or English. No particular level of education is required only a willingness to become immersed in the project. However, students in disciplines which may lead to work in addiction are particularly welcome to apply.
The time required for the first summer school will be 10 – 14 days in the period 22 June – 13 August, 2006.
This will be held in Normandy. Participants will be camping with full facilities, river and campfire. Training will take place in an equipped conference facility nearby.
The village of St. Germain des Grois in winter. The village is in The Perche Natural Parc.
Preparatory Meeting. Saturday 18th & Sunday 19th March 2006
WANTED: 12 young adults with a European outlook for first meeting.
This will be held in the offices of Vie Libre in Paris, Clichy. Mouvement Vie Libre 8, impasse Dumur 92110 Clichy, France.
The aim of this meeting is to assemble and form a planning team of about 8 – 12 people aged between 18 and 24. This team will select the main areas in which training will be offered in the Summer school. The ”curriculum” will be chosen by the group themselves from such things as:
§ training in running self-help meetings, looking at various models eg AA, shared praxis etc.
§ training strategies, role play, drama, small groupwork, feedback, filming etc.
§ training in relational communication – visualisation, movement, self-awareness
§ some basic psychological concepts – motivation(Maslow), developmental modelling (e.g Kholberg)
§ listening skills etc.
The summer school will train the team and any others who may wish to join (there may have to be a selection process). At the end of the summer school participants will be able to set up their own training programmes under supervision.
This preparatory meeting will be open-ended and all suggestions about how to involve young people in mutual-help for alcohol/substance users will be welcome.
Participants at this meeting may be helped with funding if it is forthcoming. Please contact John Mac-an-Leisdeir if you need financial help to attend this meeting.
The Preparatory meeting will also draw up a project funding request which can be submitted to grant-making bodies and the European Commission.
If you are aged between 18 & 24 and wish to find out more about the project, or wish to take part in it, please contact:
John Mac-an-Leisdeir
Chairman, EMNA
Le Ruisseau,
St Germain des Grois
61110, France
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Closing date for people wishing to take part in preparatory meeting: Tuesday 31st January
Rowdy Yates
Senior Research Fellow
Scottish Addiction Studies
Department of Applied Social Science
University of Stirling
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