George S. Braucht: LPC, CPCS & CARES

This seminar, adjustable from 30 minutes to 2 hours, overviews Georgia’s Good Samaritan Law; explains how to recognize an overdose situation; and demonstrates the proper technique for administering naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug. When they’re still alive, there is hope! Suitable for your civic, social, faith or other community-based organization.

Click here for this seminar description and here for the Brief Opioid Overdose Knowledge Questionnaire.

1) Explain a) why people sometimes don’t “just quit and stay quit,” and b) the reasons for the message of hope that expects recovery;

2)    2)  Describe how alcohol and other drugs and the environments in which use occurs changes priorities and behaviors, and why recovery capital and connections to supports are typically needed to initiate and sustain long-term recovery; and

3)    3) Identify the many peer and professional resources that are available in your community.

The Applying the SOAR Training of Trainers prepares participants to facilitate the Applying the Science of Addiction Recovery (SOAR) symposium. Following the Applying the SOAR presentation, participants practice delivering a section of the PowerPoint that contains a trainer's script. You leave this training with access to the PowerPoint, symposium handout templates, and presenter self-assessment tools. Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:

1) Describe three keys to becoming a successful presenter;

2) Explain three w's for organizing presentations: who (DNA, what and where; and

3) Present Applying the SOAR and assess your core presentation skills in route to an expert level of proficiency.

A new 2-hour version of the classic Faces and Voices of Recovery version that is updated with information on adolescent brain and behavior development plus the effects of marijuana. The two objectives are for participants to be able to: 1) explain the neuroscience of addiction and recovery using the language of young people and examples from their experience and 2) Discuss why recovery advocacy is important for your family and community. Click here to download the handout.

We all want to improve what we do and have evidence of our service effectiveness. This webinar introduces performance support as a key component of professional development. Clinical and peer service providers, supervisors, and program administrators learn how to: 1) Identify the top 10 reasons for using the Partners for Change Outcome Management System (PCOMS), 2) Describe three key indicators of client/peer progress, and 3) Participate in performance support/clinical supervision processes to enhance your currently experienced and cumulative career growth. Click here for the Participant handout.

This 3-hour workshop explores recovery services, character strengths and associated behaviors as an enhancement to deficit-based addiction treatment. Participants experience their mindware including mindfulness and positive psychology practices that research plus thousands of years of wisdom traditions have shown improve the health and wellbeing of not just individuals but also the groups to which they belong. Join us to see how your mind and body respond with reduced stress; improved immune system function; enhanced emotional balance, compassion and empathy; and increased capacity for insight and shifts in personal identity. Click here to download the handout. A full-day training handout is available below.

Click here to download the webinar handout. Upon completion, participants will be able to: 1) Describe at least two variations for conducting effective peer RAP groups, 2) Recognize the IMPACT criteria for setting goals and creating a weekly action plan, and 3) Use the Outcome Rating Scale (ORS), Group Session Rating Scale (GSRS) and the Self-Completed Overview of Recovery Board (SCORE Board).

Client (Person)-directed, outcome-informed services are a hallmark of peer recovery support. Due to copyrigh with the Partners for Change Outcome Management System forms, please contact me for a copy of the Participant Handout. The 1-hour webinar recording is available at the Heart and Soul of Change Project member website.

The emerging recovery-oriented systems of care (ROSC) paradigm enhances the effectiveness of prevention and treatment with pre, during, and post-intervention recovery support services. Participants use Appreciative Inquiry methods to explore recovery definitions, identify ROSC elements that exist within the current service delivery systems, and develop potential targets of change for promoting enhanced ROSC. Click here to download the Participant Handout.

This popular workshop highlights the combination of genetic and environmental factors that influence the brain, body, mind and behavior, and in particular, the effects of alcohol and other drug use. Understanding these influences is vital to tailoring treatment and recovery activities that work for varied individuals. Over 40 years of clinical neuroscience research and several thousands of years of mindfulness practices shows that intentionally and repeatedly focusing attention impacts the growth of brain cells, the density of their interconnections and the speed with which they communicate and the physical reallocation of functions to new brain areas. Current evidence-based practices for changing behavior and health conditions includes addressing addiction, criminality, depression, and obsessions-compulsions An enhanced awareness of one’s emotions, thoughts and behaviors significantly improve how we manage and respond to the external environment, including other people. Research shows that an essential element for achieving long-term recovery is sustaining engagements in social support. During this session participants practice mindware techniques for managing our perceptions, decisions and behavior. Click here to download the handout.

This workshop covers four decades of clinical neuroscience research and two millennia of mindfulness practices for changing behavioral health conditions including addiction, depression, and obsessions-compulsions. Intentionally and repeatedly focusing attention impacts the growth of brain cells (neurogenesis), the density of their interconnections and the speed with which they communicate (synaptogenesis) and the physical reallocation of brain areas (cross-modal functional neuroplasticity). The enhanced awareness of one’s AND other's emotions, thoughts and behaviors significantly improve how we respond to other people. During this session we practice a variety of mindfulness techniques for influencing not only our perceptions and decision-making but also our cultural evolution. Click here for the handout.

Recovery-oriented, client-directed and outcome-informed services are an evidence-based practice that can be used regardless of your therapeutic orientation. Due to copyrights, please contact me for a copy of the Participant Handout.

This seminar examines the cultivation of well-being or flourishing from the confluence of clinical neuroscience, positive psychology and 2,000+ years of mindfulness practices. Intentionally and repeatedly focusing attention changes the architecture of the brain and enhances the mind’s awareness and appreciation of oneself and the environment, including other people. The importance of integrating the brain, mind, and relationships is a theme shared by Dr. Dan Siegel’s Interpersonal Neurobiology and Dr. Marty Seligman’s Positive Psychology.  In addition to becoming better acquainted with personal and environmental biases that influence our perceptions and decisions, we experience several contemplative self-care practices. Click here to download the Participant Handout.

Learn how to advocate for recovery based on the latest neuroscience. This 3, 2, or 1 hour presentation can be tailored to clinicians, peers/consumers/clients, and/or community groups. Click here to download the Participant Handout. SOAR is sponsored by Faces and Voices of Recovery (FAVOR) and the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse. Approved for three contact hours/CEUs by the Georgia Addictions Counselors Association and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Certification Board of Georgia.

The SOAR TOT is a 6-hour training that begins with the SOAR presentation. The SOAR TOT Handout is divided into three files. Click here to download Part 1, here for Part 2, and here for Part 3. Download my Improving Your Presentation Skills manual by clicking here. Also be sure to get the SOAR Participant Handout in the above section. The SOAR TOT CD and many other valuable recovery advocacy materials are available from Faces and Voices of Recovery (FAVOR). Co-sponsored by the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse, the SOAT TOT is approved for six contact hours/CEUs by the Georgia Addictions Counselors Association and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Certification Board of Georgia.

Click here to download the 2-day training handout that promoted the competence and confidence of child welfare parent mentors who deliver recovery-oriented, parent-directed and outcome-informed services.