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For Volunteers: Meeting Opening and Closing
Feel free to Copy and Paste this text when you facilitate an online meeting.
Meeting Opening
Welcome to this SMART On-Line Recovery meeting. SMART stands for Self Management and Recovery Training. We are a non-profit, volunteer mutual self-help peer support group, and not to be construed as professional therapy. Our meetings last 90 minutes and are open to everyone. No one is required to participate if you don't wish to. Our discussions focus on how to abstain from any type of addictive behavior.
SMART views addictive behavior as a complex maladaptive behavior, not as a disease. We view recovery as our own responsibility, and within our control. We teach self-empowering skills, to help you build and maintain motivation, cope with urges, identify and solve other problems in your life, and achieve lifestyle balance in order to prevent relapse.
Please remember that our discussions are flexible – if it's important to you, it's important to the group. Respect, Honesty, and Understanding are the "by words" here, and we encourage cross-talk after the check in has been completed. Make comments freely, however, please keep them in line with the issue or topic that has presented itself. We learn from each other, and your input and experience may help another. If you lapse or relapse, come and discuss what happened and learn skills like refuses to act on urges.
One further point: if you have been using, please know you are welcome to stay and observe the meeting. As people who have been using sometimes do not realize their actions (however well-intended), they may inhibit the flow of the meeting and prevent others from working on their issues.
Also, anyone receiving inappropriate or unwanted
private messages from another participant during the meeting should
notify the meeting facilitator. Caution and common sense are encouraged
- if you haven't done so, please review the Online Safety posting on our
Message Board. This posting can be found
here.
We will now start the check in, the facilitator will run down the list and ask how everyone is doing. This is a great time to mention if you have a particular issue, topic, success, question or concern that you would like to discuss during the meeting. Please feel free to introduce yourself to the group. Anyone wishing to may simply type or say "pass" as well. Once we have checked in with everyone, we will continue to the general discussion portion of the meeting.
Meeting Closing
This SMART On-Line meeting is officially over...however you may stay and chat as long as you like.
*****ATTENTION PLEASE ***** SMART Recovery is a non-profit organization. Financial support for SMART Online is dependent upon donations from people like you and me. Tax-deductible donations may be sent to SMART Recovery at 7537 Mentor Avenue, Suite 306, Mentor, Ohio 44060. They may also be made on the SMART website, using Visa or MasterCard through a secure connection. The link for this is
here:
If you make purchases from Amazon.com of suggested reading materials or anything else through the SMART website, Amazon.com will donate a portion back to SMART as well. Thanks again folks and stay SMART!!!
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