Peer Facilitator Training Program | SMART Recovery Australia

SMART Recovery Australia is pleased to announce it has received a generous grant from the Sisters of Charity Foundation for its Peer Facilitator Training Program.

About the Peer Facilitator Training Program

SMART Recovery groups are facilitated by both professionals and ‘peers’ (people who are recovering or have recovered from addictive behaviours).

To be qualified by SMART Recovery Australia to oversee group meetings, you are required to attend a two-day Facilitator Training Program. The training costs a fee – merely to cover the organisation’s costs of running the course – SMART Recovery Australia does not profit from this activity.

The training teaches participants on how to manage group dynamics, employ CBT skills, conflict resolution, and problem solving aptitudes so they are able to effectively facilitate the meetings.

SMART Recovery would dearly love to be able to offer this training to peers for free. The grant from Sisters of Charity will allow us to do this for a certain amount of eligible SMART Recovery peers.

The grant will act as sponsorship for peers who wish to become facilitators but who are not able to afford the program as they may be unemployed or are a low-income earner.

Who is eligible to receive sponsored Facilitator Training?

The participant must have demonstrated a 12-month period of being able to control their addictive behaviour by attending SMART Recovery meetings. This needs to be endorsed and signed off by their SMART Recovery Meeting Facilitator, who will then contact SMART Recovery Australia Head Office with their endorsement.

Are you a SMART Recovery Facilitator that knows a suitable participant who would make a good facilitator?

• If you find a participant in your group who attends regularly, is enthusiastic about the programme and willing to learn more, then encourage them to become a facilitator.
• Peers in the group can become co-facilitators if you think that they are suitable. They can help facilitate under your guidance.
• The participant must have demonstrated a 12-month period of being able to control their addictive behaviour before they can undertake facilitator training.

If you are a eligible participant interested in receiving free facilitator training or are a facilitator who knows a SMART Recovery participant suitable for making the transition to facilitator, contact us HERE.

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