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Primary Intensive ©
A five-day structured residential workshop experience, patterned after the first weeks of inpatient treatment for food dependency. The Intensive is designed to support and promote food abstinence and Twelve Step work through a process of groups, educational lectures, structured activities and individual reading/writing assignments. Attendees practice preparing their own abstinent food in a residential kitchen with group support.
Attendance at all days is required. Schedule.
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Workshops
Non-residential, day-long process groups which support physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual recovery from food addiction. We offer 3-day, 5-day and 7-day groups that focus on special topics in recovery, such as:
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Weekend Retreats
Non-residential, day-long process group of 10-12 people that supports physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual recovery from food addiction. We begin on a Friday evening and end at noon on Sunday. The focus of these groups is maintaining abstinence and providing a recovery community based on the ACORN model.
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3 Days with Phil Werdell
This three-day workshop led by the co-founder of ACORN and Director of ACORN's professional training program, will help you work on deep emotional and spiritual blocks that prevent you from becoming abstinent or maintaining long-term abstinence and recovery. If you have trouble identifying feelings, dealing with anger, fear or grief, or surrendering to powerlessness over food, this workshop will give you practical skills that will support "abstinence first."
The focus is on how to deal with chronic food slips and/or relapse. When a food addict has a food slip or a major relapse, there is always a physical, emotional and spiritual reason. You don't have to let the food addiction continue to make decisions in your life. If you have felt driven by the voice of addiction, this workshop will give you the skills to notice and become aware of how this disease has hijacked your mind.
Join Phil in a safe, nurturing small group format (with no more than five participants) to learn how use food "slip inventories," expressive exercises and written incidents of powerlessness (approaches which he pioneered) to remove stumbling blocks that prevent deep emotional and spiritual recovery.
Attendance is required at all three days. Schedule
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Individual Coaching
In person, or by phone with individual staff from ACORN.
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Special Groups
Finished an Intensive©, know other ACORN alumni in your area and want to get more recovery? You can schedule ACORN staff to come to a special event in your area. If there is a special topic that ACORN alumni want to address, the staff at ACORN are available.
ACORN alumni have gathered to form Process Groups that meet on a weekly or monthly basis. If you know 8-15 alumni, (and some groups accept new people) you can have a Weekend Retreat. One or two ACORN staff can come to support your group whenever your group wants to schedule a retreat. ACORN staff can support your alumni in having a non-facilitated, local monthly Process Group.
What do you need to get started? 8-15 ACORN alumni (people who have attended an Intensive, Workshop or Retreat), possibly some new people, and a space large enough for a group to meet. ACORN staff will come to your group for the cost of a Retreat or workshop, and transportation.
There are currently 5 ACORN alumni Process Groups in the following areas:
- Portland, ME
- Chicago, IL
- Philadelphia, PA
- Washington DC area
- Richmond, VA
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