LifeRing Alcohol and Drug Peer Support Groups

Alcohol and Drug Peer Support Groups

November 2011

Founding Executive Director, Michael Walsh, speaks at conference in Vancouver

November 11, 2011
Michael Walsh

Issues of Substance 2011 conference kicks off in Vancouver and Michael Walsh, Founding Executive Director of LifeRing Secular Recovery Society Canada is attending the three day conference and presenting a talk called: Diversifying Recovery Options: The Success of LifeRing in Victoria on Monday November 7, 2011. LifeRing has been very successful in Victoria and we want to take the same model to other cities and provide people options in self-help support groups they require and are looking for.

UVIC Department of Psychology

November 14, 2011
Michael Walsh

A research team from the UVIC Department of Psychology is assisting LifeRing with putting together the first ever Convenors Training Program. Convenors are the meeting facilitators. Currently, Convenors are provided the current LifeRing Convenors Handbook and are mentored while learning how to run meetings. What we want to do is provide Convenors an opportunity to enhance the meeting experience for participants, but also for themselves by offering basic training in various methods of group facilitation related to substance abuse and addiction self-help groups.