This program creates a strong foundation by examining the behaviors associated with addiction and applying mindfulness practices to effectively manage impulses and shift limiting mindsets.

Mindfully Overcoming Addictive Behaviors is a 10-week live course for individuals navigating the various stages of addictions of all kinds. In this program, participants will develop their self-awareness skills to identify the triggers, obstacles and pain behaviors associated with addiction. This program creates a strong foundation by examining the behaviors associated with addiction and applying mindfulness practices to effectively manage impulses and shift limiting mindsets.

Mindfully Overcoming Addictive Behaviors

MOA Participant Handout - Session one

This session orients participants to the outline of the course and sets the expectations and intentions to achieve optimal results.

Orientation

MOA Participant Handout - Session two

Addiction is a multifaceted disorder in which the individual repeatedly experiences a loss of control in relation to the use of a substance or the acting out of a behavior. This session explores this definition further by identifying the obstacles to recovery, pain behaviors and introduces the key ways mindfulness can help.

What Is Addiction?

MOA Participant Handout - Session three

This session unpacks the complex system of addiction which includes biological and external variables. Participants will focus on the practical application of mindfulness skills through guided meditation and personal development exercises.

Intro to Mindfulness

MOA Participant Handout - Session four

This session explores the roles of attention and awareness and how addiction becomes a gradual learned behavior. Participants will develop a mindfulness practice around these two concepts to sharpen their perception and expose other issues that can develop as a result of addiction.

Attention and Awareness

MOA Participant Handout – Session five

This session explores the opposite of mindfulness -- fixation -- and how it relates to addiction. Participants will learn the SOS method: Shift, Open, and Stay! practice that begins encouraging participants to explore their own experience of addiction.

Being Mindful

MOA Participant Handout - Session Six

This session continues exploring the experience of addiction and the three major elements of the addictive experience.

Healing Through Self-Inquiry I

MOA Participant Handout - Session seven

This episode explores thought distortions.  Studies show that a person’s thoughts determine how he or she will cope. People stuck in cycles of distress often exhibit patterns of thought that make circumstances worse.

Healing Through Self-Inquiry II

MOA Participant Handout - Session eight

Savoring is defined as intentionally focusing attention on pleasant events coupled with the added goal of accentuating awareness of all the positive qualities of the experience.  This session focuses on how to mindfully attend to these savoring experiences, potentially reducing addictive urges of all kinds.

Savoring

MOA Participant Handout - Session nine

This session encourages participants to set intentions to monitor ethical behavior and amplify beauty and goodness in and around themselves.

Positive Re-Appraisal I

MOA Participant Handout - Session ten

This session discusses the theory of The Hero's Quest and recaps the powerful mindfulness skills and practices that have been learned.