Peer Recovery Support Series - How to Use Films in SUD Treatment

Time: 12:00-1:00pm Eastern Time

Description:

This webinar will detail the Recovery Movie Meet-ups mutual help format, and the innovative motivational enhancements it can generate in the cognitive experiential process of change for individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs). The Recovery Movie Meet-ups format involves in-group viewing and discussion of carefully chosen films featuring characters with SUDs, as well as storylines and themes about recovery. The program is centered around discussions guided by a 190-page printed workbook that features a study guide to 20 films. The workbook includes discussion questions that participants can fill out during or after meetings as further integration of lessons learned in-group and reinforcement of their recovery goals.

Presenter:

Ted Perkins, MA, is a former Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Studio executive, university lecturer, public speaker, Hollywood producer, virtual reality entrepreneur, and successful working film and TV series screenwriter. He volunteers his time as an addiction and recovery YouTube personality, sobriety mentor, and has helped thousands of people on their recovery journey through his essays, videos and weekly SMART Recovery meetings. He is the author of ADDICTED in FILM: Movies We Love About the Habits We Hate and Founder/CEO of the new mutual support meeting format, Recovery Movie Meet-Ups. Perkins has lived and worked in over 50 countries, and now resides in Los Angeles.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to state the therapeutic value of discussing films about addiction and recovery in mutual support meeting formats.
• Participants will be able to incorporate the RECOVERY MOVIE MEET-UPs program into their therapeutic practices.
• Participants will be able to use films to augment their recovery discussions with clients for maximum therapeutic benefit and longer-lasting periods of abstinence.