Conflict Resolution for Recovery Virtual CRR Two-Day Training

Conflict Resolution for Recovery Virtual CRR Two-Day Training is organized by NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals. This conference has been approved for a maximum of 12 CEs.

CRR is designed to:
• Help reduce relapse and sustain recovery of adult and adolescent substance use, abuse and dependent persons by improving their conflict resolution knowledge, attitudes and skills.
• Serve as a research-based, empirically-tested, psycho-educational curriculum that is effective and appropriate to use with diverse populations of adult and adolescent substance use disorder persons.
• Provide treatment and training materials for professionals (counselors, social workers, therapists, psychologists,  outreach and faith-based and others) that are easy to use and integrate into existing community residential, intensive outpatient and outpatient substance use disorder treatment facilities, as well as school-based counseling, faith counseling and other helping professional and faith-based groups.
• Provide an effective, cost-efficient, feasible model for improving clients’ conflict resolution capacities. This innovative program is based on concepts adapted from effective use in other disciplines/environments, make use of today’s technology, and enhance relapse-prevention options.

Key CRR Training Sessions:
• Instinct or Intellect - Understanding where anger and conflict resides in the brain (limbic system and cortex).
• Instinctual Patterns/Familiar Feelings - Where we learn our patterns in conflict and how our brain automatically reverts to the familiar conflicting styles.
• Understanding Relationships - How they start and traverse through stages.
• Four Types of Agreements - Setting up relationships to be healthy.Four Levels of Violence - How they play a role in day-to-day conflict.
• Understanding Your Style of Conflict in Communication - Learning what your primary reactionary and secondary reactionary styles are and how they harm you and others.
• Stress and Anger - Understanding the “stress cycle” and how it may lead to conflict and relapse.
• Power and Control - Who has them and who needs them.
• Cognitive Change - Learning to change your brain and stay with it.
• Learning not to Blame and Shame - Seeking the moment of “misunderstanding.”
• Learning how to “Dig Deeper” Into the Conflict - Resolution through collaboration.
• Living a Life of Collaboration.

Upon completion of this training you will learn:
• More effective and healthier communication and communication skills.
• Stages of relationships and how they relate to conflict.
• Effective styles of conflict resolution.
• How to facilitate a model for daily interactions in situations where conflict arises, focusing on new behavior and building a higher impulse control in the participant.
• How to manage the learning process as clients discover the wounds they carry from past relationships and situations and how these wounds currently affect their lives and relationships.