The Moore Institute

SMART Recovery and SMART for Friends and Family
2019-01-01 18:00 - 19:30, 2018-12-25 18:00 - 19:30, 2018-12-18 18:00 - 19:30, 2018-12-11 18:00 - 19:30 UTC
CBT Recovery for Addicts/ Alcoholism
CBT Recovery For Friends and Family

Recovery Dharma
2018-12-31 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-12-29 10:30 - 11:30, 2018-12-26 19:00 - 20:00, 2018-12-24 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-12-22 10:30 - 11:30, 2018-12-19 19:00 - 20:00, 2018-12-17 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-12-15 10:30 - 11:30 and 1 more date
Recovery Dharma is a Buddhist-oriented path to freedom from addiction. This is an approach to recovery that understands: “All individuals have the power and potential to free themselves from the suffering that is caused by addiction.” We feel confident in the power of the Dharma, if applied, to relieve suffering of all kinds, including the suffering of addiction. This is a process that cultivates a path of awakening, the path of recovering from the addictions and delusions that have created so much suffering in our lives and in this world.

Recovery Dharma is a systematic approach to training our hearts and minds to see clearly and respond to our lives with understanding and non-harming. You are entering a way of life that may be familiar to some and foreign to others. In the beginning some of it may seem confusing or counter-instinctual, and some of it is. But you will find that with time, familiarity and experience, it will all make perfect sense and will gradually become a more and more natural way of being.

Refuge Recovery
2018-12-31 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-12-24 18:00 - 19:00, 2018-12-17 18:00 - 19:00 | The Moore Institute, 4126 Autumn Ln, Birmingham, AL, 35243, United States
Buddhist inspired recovery

Refuge Recovery Inventory Meeting
2018-12-31 17:00 - 18:00, 2018-12-24 17:00 - 18:00, 2018-12-17 17:00 - 18:00
Refuge Recovery is a Buddhist-oriented path to freedom from addiction. This is an approach to recovery that understands: “All individuals have the power and potential to free themselves from the suffering that is caused by addiction.” We feel confident in the power of the Dharma, if applied, to relieve suffering of all kinds, including the suffering of addiction. This is a process that cultivates a path of awakening, the path of recovering from the addictions and delusions that have created so much suffering in our lives and in this world.

Refuge Recovery is a systematic approach to training our hearts and minds to see clearly and respond to our lives with understanding and non-harming. You are entering a way of life that may be familiar to some and foreign to others. In the beginning some of it may seem confusing or counter-instinctual, and some of it is. But you will find that with time, familiarity and experience, it will all make perfect sense and will gradually become a more and more natural way of being.

3rd Annual New Year Cleanse
2018-12-31 13:00 - 16:00 | The Moore Institute, 4126 Autumn Ln, Birmingham, AL, 35243, United States
3rd Annual New Year Cleanse December 31st from 1 pm until 4 pm

An opportunity to let go of the old and bring in the new. This will be a time of contemplation, meditation, and ritual. We will have a ritual of letting go of old thoughts and behaviors. We will be doing some inquiring into old thinking and practice a new way of thinking. We will be releasing old blocks and re-enforce what works for us. There will be a time of contemplative writing about 2017. A time of meditation and new beginnings. It will end with walking the labyrinth together. Remember to bring something to burn (or tear it up if raining) to symbolize letting go of the past. We will be letting go of the old and ringing in the new.

ILLUMAN
2018-12-30 14:00 - 15:30
MEET OTHER MEN COMMITTED TO BECOMING BETTER, MORE AUTHENTIC MEN

Illuman is a not for profit organization for men who are simply interested in becoming better, more authentic men. We welcome all men to our work without regard for your ethnicity, class, education, sexual orientation, religion or any other characteristic that might make you feel excluded.
Illuman’s Implementation Of Council
The Way of Council is Illuman’s primary practice, implemented at all levels of our work, from rites of passage to chapter meetings, from our homes to our wider communities. We respect this enough to equip men to do it well, but we acknowledge that council emerges apart from our efforts to control it. Circles have an archetypal life of their own. Council is the best teacher of council.

The Four Intentions of Council

Listen from the heart.
Speak from the heart.
Be spontaneous and authentic.
Be lean of expression.

Refuge Recovery 10:30 Saturday
2018-12-29 10:30 - 23:30, 2018-12-22 10:30 - 23:30, 2018-12-15 10:30 - 23:30

Refuge Recovery
2018-12-26 10:30 - 11:30, 2018-12-19 10:30 - 11:30, 2018-12-12 10:30 - 11:30
Buddhist Inspired Recovery From All Addictions
All Are Welcomed!!

Smart Recovery and SMART Family and Friends
2018-12-25 18:00 - 19:30, 2018-12-18 18:00 - 19:30 | The Moore Institute, 4126 Autumn Ln, Birmingham, AL, 35243, United States
Help for Family & Friends

Help yourself, and help your loved one, with an alternative to Al-Anon and Johnson Intervention.

Are you struggling with how to help someone with drug addiction, alcohol abuse, or other addictive behaviors? SMART Recovery would like to provide you with the resources you can use to help yourself, as well your loved one.
SMART Recovery Family & Friends helps those who are affected by the substance abuse, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, or other addictions of a loved one.
SMART Recovery Family & Friends is a science-based, secular alternative to Al-Anon and Johnson Intervention. Our method is based on the tools of SMART Recovery and CRAFT (Community Reinforcement Approach & Family Training) developed by Dr. Robert Meyers and featured on the popular HBO Addiction series.

GRASP Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing
2018-12-21 18:00 - 19:00
Anyone who has lost a loved one through substance use knows that society treats this loss differently than a death from any other cause. There is the belief that the one who died must have somehow been a bad person. And for those of us left behind, that we too must have somehow been a bad person. We must have been a bad parent, a bad spouse, a bad partner, a bad sibling, a bad friend, or the person we love wouldn’t have died. But we are not bad people. The one we lost was not a bad person. There is no blame here. For them or for you. They did their best. They struggled with their disease but, ultimately, this disease took their life. And however you tried to save them, you did your best. Because that’s what love does.

Grief Recovery After Substance Passing (GRASP) was created to offer understanding, compassion, and support for those who have lost someone they love through addiction and overdose. Too many times we suffer not only the death of the person we love, but we become isolated in our grief. We feel, and too many times it is true, that no one understands our pain. But at GRASP, we do. We have suffered this same kind of loss and we have found the love and connection that only those who have lived this loss can give another. And while the pain of this loss will always be with us, we have found through GRASP that we don’t have to walk the road that is our pain alone. We walk it together; hand in hand and heart to heart.
Come, join us. And become a part of the healing community that is GRASP!

Contact Lori Ritter at 205-910-0789 or loricritter@bellsouth.net for information and to pre-register
