The Recovery Files · For Clinicians
Workshop Facilitator Packets
Ready-to-run workshops for treatment teams
Seven workshops you can run with your own staff. Each packet walks a team through honest self-assessment, names what's getting in the way, and ends with an action plan. Print one for each participant; most parts can be answered anonymously.
Supervision and leadership
For the people who supervise and lead clinical teams.
Effective Supervision Workshop
From Checkbox Compliance to Transformative Development
For supervisors and supervisees together: an honest look at how supervision is really going, the patterns that empty it out (the "satellite" and "checklist" supervisor), and how to make it strength-based, personal and growth-focused.
Inside: Supervision quality assessment · dysfunctions to name · strength-based supervision, mentoring and coaching · power dynamics and group supervision · a supervision transformation plan
15 pages
Leaders Eat Last
Leadership Principles for Substance Use Disorder Treatment Centers
Simon Sinek's ideas on leadership applied to SUD treatment: protecting your team from outside pressure, building trust, and leading as service. With treatment-center examples throughout.
Inside: Core principles (the Circle of Safety, trust, service and sacrifice) · a leadership self-assessment · an interactive leadership development worksheet
Based on Simon Sinek's book Leaders Eat Last. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Simon Sinek.
11 pages
Psychological Safety Team Workshop
Building Trust, Openness & Fearless Collaboration
A self-guided team workshop for building a culture where everyone feels safe to speak up, take risks and bring their full selves to work.
Inside: A psychological safety self-assessment · naming fears · team strengths and barriers · personal commitments · team-wide action planning · evidence-based safety practices
12 pages
Communication Streamlining Workshop
Optimizing Communication Volume, Channels & Effectiveness
Is your team drowning in communication or starving for it? Sorts what's useful from what's noise and builds systems where people actually feel heard.
Inside: Communication volume and effectiveness assessments · feeling heard · email and channel management · approval chains · a team action plan and communication charter
12 pages
Programs and the organization
For the people who shape programs and the treatment center itself.
Effective Treatment Communities Workshop
From Individual Treatment to Community Transformation
Recovery happens in community. For treatment centers that want to move from providing services to building lasting recovery communities that hold people after discharge.
Inside: Community-building assessment · alumni programs · on-site recovery culture · digital platforms · advocacy · peer recovery specialists · partnerships · an action plan and ways to measure success
15 pages
Programming Quality & Engagement Workshop
From Optional Attendance to Mandatory Participation Excellence
Why optional programming leaves gaps patients may not discover until they're back in the real world, and how to raise the quality of groups so attendance and engagement follow.
Inside: Programming quality assessment · mandatory vs. optional programming · content quality · recovery-informed facilitation · integration with treatment · an excellence action plan
11 pages
Understanding & Addressing High Turnover Impact
A Comprehensive Workshop for SUD Treatment Center Staff
What staff turnover does to continuity of care, institutional knowledge, morale and quality of care, and what your team can do about it.
Inside: Three modules (continuity of care and costs · lost institutional knowledge · morale and quality of care) · an interactive worksheet for assessing and addressing turnover in your setting
10 pages
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