Baywood Center

​​Open Groups (Open​ to Casual Participation)

• Motivational Recovery
  In this group members discuss motivation and its role in the recovery process. Where does motivation come from? What do we do when we don’t feel motivated?
  Focus areas include:

  • Internal/external motivation: learning to differentiate the two

  • Goal development and reflection

  • Small progress: the role of small victories in achieving goals

  • Self-fulfillment

  • Accomplishment while working toward ongoing goals
     

• ​​Trauma Education
  This group is an introduction to trauma education, highlighting topics of resilience, PTSD, generational topics, effects of trauma, and more.
  Focus areas include:

  • What is trauma?

  • Types of trauma

  • Childhood trauma and its effects

  • Physical symptoms of trauma
     

• ​​Self Compassion
  This group follows a 12-week curriculum addressing addiction, the five elements of self-compassion, shame and core values, and managing emotional fallout.
  Focus areas include:

  • Myths of self-compassion

  • Negative core beliefs

  • Core values (living deeply)

  • Conversations on guilt, stigma, and anger

  • Hard feelings vs. soft feelings

  • Vulnerability

  • Societal expectations

  • Self-compassion for men vs. women

  • Self-appreciation
     

• Recovery Topics
  This group covers a range of topics that are important to one’s recovery process, introducing group members to areas that might be unfamiliar to them.
  Focus areas include:

  • Causes of addiction

  • Coping skills

  • Building supports

  • Dangers of active use

  • Skill development

  • Trauma
     

• ​​Relapse Prevention
  Group members focus on general recovery information and maintaining sobriety, including learning about relapse triggers, urge-surfing, and mindfulness.
  Focus areas include:

  • Addiction as a disease — chronic, progressive, fatal

  • Causes of addiction

  • Substance and relapse education

  • Mental health and medical connections to substance abuse

  • Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)

  • Change plans and stages of change

  • Rules for a happy healthy life
     

• ​​Relapse Prevention: Dual
  This group emphasizes how relapse prevention and mental health are intertwined in recovery as a journey and addresses coping skills and self-care techniques to prevent relapse.
  Focus areas include:

  • Mental health

  • Addiction and the brain

  • Self-care and self-expression

  • Addressing stigma and judgment

  • Learning about triggers, cravings, and coping skills

  • Education on sober supports
     

• Coping with Family Stress
  This group focuses on education around addiction in the family and learning communication skills, setting boundaries with family members, and ACOA family roles.
  Focus areas include:

  • Impact on a family by an individual’s or family member’s addiction

  • Dynamics of a home affected by substance abuse

  • Learning about addiction as a family disease

  • Learning better communication skills, setting boundaries, and how to discuss addiction and recovery with family
     

• Thinking for Change (Includes DWI)
  Focus areas include:

  • Thinking errors

  • Justifications, denial, rationalizing

  • Choosing to make better choices

  • Identifying faulty thinking

  • Consequences of DWI
     

• ​​Managing Addictive Behaviors
  This group centers around understanding and addressing addictive behaviors — what do these behaviors look like and what can we do about them?
  Focus areas include:

  • Thinking errors and identifying faulty thinking

  • Justifications, denial, and rationalizing

  • Awareness of inner thoughts and alternative thinking/healthy thought patterns

  • Awareness of behaviors and alternative behaviors

  • Benefits of healthy habits

  • Personal accountability
     

• Men’s Group
  This group focuses on men’s issues in recovery, including emotions, vulnerability, and learning to ask for help. This group allows men to build a sober support network and discuss shared experiences.
  Focus areas include:

  • Skills to express emotions in a healthy manner

  • Self-esteem

  • Building trust

  • Ego
     

• ​​Women’s Group
  This group builds female sober supports through conversations on self-esteem, addiction, friendships, love, recovery, and more. Open space for women to discuss struggles freely and build healthy female relationships.
  Focus areas include:

  • Building healthy female relationships

  • Daily coping skills

  • Processing ongoing barriers

  • Emotional regulation

  • Balance

  • Self-care
     

• Codependency
  This group provides an introduction to codependency and focuses on boundaries as codependent characteristics and relationships.
  Focus areas include:

  • Education on healthy relationships

  • Manipulation

  • Self-esteem and self-worth

  • Letting go of toxic relationships
     

• Mindfulness
  This group introduces mindfulness and how it can be incorporated into daily life.
  Focus areas include:

  • Dealing with emotions

  • Mindfulness and spiritual process

  • Different forms of mindfulness

  • Styles

  • Differences between mindfulness practices

  • Using spirituality to live mindfully
     

• ​​Managing Emotions
  This group focuses on emotions and the role of emotions in daily life.
  Focus areas include:

  • Different forms of anger

  • Communication styles

  • Coping skills

  • Closure, forgiveness

  • Root causes of emotions
     

• ​​Life on Life’s Terms
  This group explores what it means to live life on life’s terms as group members discuss life and grow in their recovery.
  Focus areas include:

  • Acceptance

  • Learning control development

  • Character development

  • Coping skills in recovery

  • Embracing change

  • Embracing adversity

  • Behavior when faced with stress​