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Addict Mind: Interventions and Other Auxiliary Voices
Gain the insight and skills to work more effectively with clients caught in the cycle of addiction. In this experiential training, you’ll learn how to identify and work with unique dynamics of the “Addict Mind,” a state shaped by compulsive patterns, defense adaptations, and altered relationships to self and others. Through psychodrama, sociometry, and other experiential methods, you’ll practice in-the-moment interventions that restore connection, build motivation, and create a foundation for lasting change. Whether you’re working with people in early recovery, long-term maintenance, or people ambivalent about treatment, you’ll leave ready to meet clients where they are and help them move forward.
Addiction is more than a set of behaviors. It’s a survival system that develops in response to pain, stress, and disconnection. The “Addict Mind” is that relentless inner voice that pulls a person out of recovery and back into patterns that harm them. The one that resists change, hides in denial, and drives the cycle of relapse. In this training, we bring that voice into the open.
Through sociodrama and psychodrama, you’ll see how to give voice not only to the person in recovery, but also to the addiction itself, the substance, and the internal and external resources that counter it. We’ll work in action to make these roles visible, tangible, and workable so they no longer sit in the shadows.
This is a highly experiential training with some didactic elements. You’ll practice psychodramatic, sociodramatic, and sociometric interventions that you can immediately apply in individual, group, and recovery settings. You’ll leave with concrete skills, a richer sense of how to differentiate the person from the problem, and new ways to help people access the strengths and supports they already have.
You’ll learn how to:
Use sociodrama, the deepening double, and role reversal to work with addiction dynamics
Differentiate between the “Addict Mind” and the “Self” in action
Identify and strengthen both internal and external resources in clients, and in yourself as a clinician
Apply sociometric tools to build group cohesion and safety when working with addiction
Who it’s for:
Therapists, group facilitators, counselors, recovery specialists, peer advocates, and anyone working in addiction treatment or recovery support at any level. No prior psychodrama experience is required. If you’re working toward certification, this training counts toward your hours.
Gain the insight and skills to work more effectively with clients caught in the cycle of addiction. In this experiential training, you’ll learn how to identify and work with unique dynamics of the “Addict Mind,” a state shaped by compulsive patterns, defense adaptations, and altered relationships to self and others. Through psychodrama, sociometry, and other experiential methods, you’ll practice in-the-moment interventions that restore connection, build motivation, and create a foundation for lasting change. Whether you’re working with people in early recovery, long-term maintenance, or people ambivalent about treatment, you’ll leave ready to meet clients where they are and help them move forward.
Addiction is more than a set of behaviors. It’s a survival system that develops in response to pain, stress, and disconnection. The “Addict Mind” is that relentless inner voice that pulls a person out of recovery and back into patterns that harm them. The one that resists change, hides in denial, and drives the cycle of relapse. In this training, we bring that voice into the open.
Through sociodrama and psychodrama, you’ll see how to give voice not only to the person in recovery, but also to the addiction itself, the substance, and the internal and external resources that counter it. We’ll work in action to make these roles visible, tangible, and workable so they no longer sit in the shadows.
This is a highly experiential training with some didactic elements. You’ll practice psychodramatic, sociodramatic, and sociometric interventions that you can immediately apply in individual, group, and recovery settings. You’ll leave with concrete skills, a richer sense of how to differentiate the person from the problem, and new ways to help people access the strengths and supports they already have.
You’ll learn how to:
Use sociodrama, the deepening double, and role reversal to work with addiction dynamics
Differentiate between the “Addict Mind” and the “Self” in action
Identify and strengthen both internal and external resources in clients, and in yourself as a clinician
Apply sociometric tools to build group cohesion and safety when working with addiction
Who it’s for:
Therapists, group facilitators, counselors, recovery specialists, peer advocates, and anyone working in addiction treatment or recovery support at any level. No prior psychodrama experience is required. If you’re working toward certification, this training counts toward your hours.