SMART Recovery
SMART Recovery is an addiction recovery programme
SMART stands for Self-Management and Recovery Training and is an addiction recovery programme that provides training and tools for people who want to change their problematic behaviour, including addiction to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, gambling, food, shopping, internet and others.
Guided by trained facilitators, guests come to help themselves and each other using a variety of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and motivational tools and techniques
What makes SMART different?
SMART advocates personal choice. People make a choice to engage in problematic and addictive behaviours. They can also make a choice to stop. Everyone has the power of choice and can choose to change unhelpful or harmful behaviours.
People are not their behaviours so language like ‘addict’ and ‘alcoholic’ is not used. People seeking addiction recovery are empowered to choose what works best for them, from a ‘toolbox’ of methods demonstrated in meetings and training materials.
Participants are free to engage with other services or mutual-aid groups which they find helpful; there is no single pathway to addiction recovery. Once a healthy, positive and balanced lifestyle is achieved, participants are free to move on and pursue other goals in their life.
How to join
If you are interested, then please come along!
Sessions run every Tuesday afternoon from 3:00 – 4:30pm at Genesis Life Projects at Genesis on the Canal. .
Address
Genesis on the Canal – Between the canal and the back of Widcombe Baptist Church, Bath BA2 4JR
Entrance via Widcombe Bridge Canal path. Look for the green door. Please do not go to the church door.
