| Subject: | [youthgas] Family Healing Circles | | Date: | Thursday, August 4, 2005 10:03:03 (+0800) | | From: | Deborah Dupre <duprevent @.......com>
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>
> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
> Following my recent post about "Belonging" and Family Healing Circles,
> Duprevent received several emails requesting more information on this
> type of empowering, healing intervention now used in Australia. Below
> is "How Family Healing Circles Work" followed by an article written by
> Dr. Walter Scanlon published in "Addiction" of the National
> Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC).
>
> FAMILY HEALING CIRCLES - WHAT THEY DO!
> Because abuse against self and others is preventable,
> Because abusing, abusive people give warning signs, and
> Because abusing, abusive people want to live in peace but are unable
> to see alternative ways to solve problems or to ask for help – there
> are
>
> FAMILY HEALING CIRCLES… A FRIENDS AND FAMILY HEALING JOURNEY WITH
> LOVED ONES ADDICTED TO GROG OR OTHER DRUGS
> TO GET AND GIVE POWER BACK - BEFORE HITTING BOTTOM.
>
> How do Family Healing Circles help families?
>
> Family Healing Circles empower Aboriginal friends and families to
> safely, gently, and respectfully
> guide loved ones harming self and others because of grog or other
> drugs “not wanting help” to willingly dry out.
>
> Who benefits from Family Healing Circles?
>
> Anybody drinking too much grog too much of the time, hurting self or
> others because of grog
> but cannot ask for help or commit to help - plus
> their family and community.
>
> Do Family Healing Circles work for other people needing help?
>
> Yes. Family Healing Circles help:
> People suffering from another person drinking too much grog, from
> young people sniffing petrol and Other Addictions,
> Mental Illness,
> Eating Too Much or Not Enough, Family Violence,
> Gambling, Sexual Abuse, Runaway Youth and
> Conscious & Unconscious Suicide.
>
> FAMILY HEALING CIRCLES:
> Caring for Aboriginal Friends and Family Member(s) in a
> Respectful, Non-Shaming, Non-Blaming Way.
>
> HOW FAMILY HEALING CIRCLES WORK
>
> Duprevent can partner with you, your community Elder(s), other
> community strong leaders, Tribal Healers, Educators, Social Workers,
> Natural Healers, alcohol and other drug workers, Suicide and other
> self-harming behavior prevention workers. We each depend on our
> faith, unique gifts and skills on behalf of families needing
> assistance.
>
> Friends and family usually fail when trying to help loved ones using
> too much grog or other drugs and hurting self and others. Family
> Healing Circles succeed by involving a team of family, friends and
> mentors who learn new ways to talk based on Aboriginal tradition and
> new skills. This loving, respectful, powerful way influences harming
> people not wanting help to willingly get help before hitting bottom.
> Not wanting help is from unclear thinking and powerlessness –
> Conditions of Addiction.
>
> A Family Healing Circle ceremony takes 2-4 weeks to plan with local
> Family Healers, learn and rehearse skills to talk in a receivable way
> to the loved one and to make arrangements for Community-Based Family
> Dry Out so that when the loved one willingly agrees to get help, help
> is available and welcoming.
> There are 2 circle workshops to prepare for the ceremony.
>
> The team then lovingly invites their loved one to the Family Healing
> Circle sacred ceremony. There, nobody shames or blames their loved
> one.
> Instead, they use powerful, unconditional love and open storytelling
> about how they feel about harm grog or other drugs does to loved-one’s
> behavior. Traditional song, story and dance might be used.
> The loved one sees, admits abusive behavior and willingly commits to
> recovery. The friends, family and Healers support their loved one and
> other family members to willingly start drying out.
> There is relief, joy, healing and power for everyone involved.
>
> We offer Compassion to Hurting Aborigines who Cannot Ask for Help.
> Aborigines say, “We get our power back with Family Healing Circles.”
> Learn to succeed in helping a loved one - before they hit bottom –
> before it’s too late.
> “SPEAKING FROM THE HEART WITH TRADITIONAL WISDOM WORKS WONDERS.”
> Deborah Dupre’
>
> For more information about starting healing circles in your community,
> contact
> Duprevent
> 202 Cloudy Bay Rd, Lunawanna, Tasmania, 7150Tel: +61 3 6293 2039 or
> Email: duprevent@bigpond.com
>
>
>
> Structured Intervention:
> New Data Validate an Old Strategy
> By Walter F. Scanlon, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.A.C.
>
> The use of structured family intervention in the treatment of
> behavioral health problems is not a new idea. It was first developed
> by Vernon E. Johnson, who founded the not-for-profit Johnson Institute
> in 1966. The Institute’s two objectives were to design specific
> programs for alcoholics through applied research and to educate the
> public in methods of intervention.
> The idea for intervention as a strategy to get alcoholics into
> treatment was the conclusion of a study of 200 patients that the
> Institute conducted. The study reaffirmed that alcoholics did not seek
> help until a serious crisis, or collective crises, brought them to
> treatment. Only when their impenetrable defenses (denial system)
> collapsed under the weight of their alcohol-related problems did they
> seek treatment. The very crises that the enabling family and friends
> often tried to help the alcoholic avoid were what ultimately motivated
> him or her to seek treatment (Johnson, 1973, p. 3-5).
> These findings became the underpinnings for the structured
> intervention. But two things had to happen. Family, friends,
> colleagues and employers had to learn that keeping the problem a
> secret exacerbated the illness. And in order to get the alcoholic to
> treatment before he or she hit "bottom," a crisis had to be
> precipitated.
> In other words, the alcoholic’s so-called "bottom" had to be raised so
> that he or she could see it. "Unlike hitting bottom, structured
> intervention provides a safe, gentle way for the denial to be broken"
> (Wheeler, 2001, p. 31).
> The concept was well-conceived and the results were convincing. The
> idea was simple: no more secrets. What the family intervention did, in
> effect, was present reality to the identified patient (IP) in a
> receivable way. It forced a crisis, whereby treatment became the
> logical alternative.
> This report is based on a statistical analysis of 33 structured family
> interventions and discusses the approach’s levels of success from
> several perspectives...
>
> [To read the rest of this article, please subscribe to Addiction
> Professional by calling our customer service department at (800)
> 333-7771 (9-5 EST). Be sure to request the current issue free with
> your subscription.]
>
Kind regards,
>
Deborah Dupre'
Duprevent
Lunawanna, Tasmania, 7150
Phone: +61 3 6293 2039 or E-Mail: duprevent@bigpond.com Visit:
http://www.duprevent.com
Empowering people to succeed in gently guiding loved ones with Chemical
Dependency harming self and others, born and unborn, get help with
dignity and compassion - before hitting bottom.
Did you know?
· Addiction is a brain disorder that prevents seeing reality
of harmful behavior.
· People with Chemical Dependency cannot ask for help so
rarely receive treatment.
· Most people want to help self-abusing loved ones get help
but do not know how.
· Most people in recovery had someone to support their first
steps to change.
· You can learn to help through 2 Structured Intervention
workshops.
· Most people in rehabs were sexually violated as children.
· Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is leading known cause of
intellectual/developmental disability in the western world.
· When pregnant mothers consume alcohol, their unborn babies
have exact same blood alcohol level.
· Alcohol is a teratogen, a substance that affects the brain
of developing fetus.
Australian Aboriginal life expectancy is 20 years less than other
Australians. Aborignal infants die at same rate as those in
impoverished countries.
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