Facilitator Information
Belonging is the joy we create around us. Belonging is the second class in the Thriving Recover Your Life series. Belonging is designed to follow either Forming or Restarting. Belonging blends the Forming and Restarting classes together and creates a particularly helpful blend for Belonging participation. Belonging is training and these 90 days require over 60 exercises during class and for homework.
*Prerequisite for Belonging is either Restarting OR Forming
Belonging is built around training and homework. Careful steps are taken to form training groups that provide encouragement, support and diversity needed to work on belonging skills. Groups are helped by “belonging coordinators” at each “round table” who receive additional support and training each week to help their group return.
Belonging was designed to produce transformation
Belonging was completely redesigned FOUR TIMES until we refined a training method that really worked. If you have tried the previous experimental methods, be prepared for something completely new in Belonging.
All real transformation changes: 1) where we belong and 2) how we create belonging around ourselves. Belonging focuses strategically on how to:
- Improve the ability of existing groups to receive new people.
- Help new people enter an existing group.
- Allow people with issues and disadvantages to create belonging around themselves.
- Heal and reduce the pain of previous rejections in our lives.
- Practice belonging skills in a safe environment with fun exercises.
- Learn and practice the two belonging skills that are most needed by people with histories of addictions and traumas.
- Develop and strengthen a personal style for creating belonging that you will really enjoy.
Belonging Products
For information on which Thriving/Belonging license would be best for you please consult our web page on licensing . A home license is designed to help you review the teaching from Belonging at home and does not include the group exercises and cannot be used to lead groups or train others. The open group license is designed for facilitators who lead groups that are open to the public and do not charge for participation. The institutional/teaching license is designed for people with closed groups and programs or who are teaching this content to others through schools, seminars or other venues.
Belonging Personal Use License
The Belonging personal use license video has over three hours of teaching on two DVDs. This includes all the teaching topics and twelve lessons from the Belonging course.
Join Ed Khouri in the high Sierra for an adventure in appreciation and a closer walk with God. See if you can spot where Ed had to stand on tarantula nests to tell his story. Watch for the chipmunks that join his lesson. The wonderful beauty of the mountains and creation are blended with Ed’s warmth, encouragement and stories. Ed turns deep and complicated truths into thoughts as clear as the mountain streams. You are going to be amazed!
Note: The Belonging personal use license DVD does not include the more than 60 group training exercises and is not expected or intended to replace a Belonging class with over 18 hours of training experience. This DVD may not be used to lead groups or conduct classes.
Belonging Open Group License
 The Belonging Open Group License is intended for leading a Belonging group that is open to the public and participants are not charged to join the training. Donations are requested from participants to cover the expenses of the class on a weekly basis during Belonging. The Open Group License provides the license holder with a full set of the twelve lessons, instructions for group participation in key exercises and the full set of instructions for each week for the belonging coordinators. This instruction is also available on line through the www.thrivingrecovery.org webiste for belonging coordinators from licensed groups. On-line participation allows ongoing instruction and exchange of ideas for the belonging coordinators globally. Your Open Group License also provides discounted prices on the Belonging workbooks and access to purchase the Belonging Facilitator workbooks and selected Belonging products.
Belonging is the joy we create around us. Belonging is the second class in the Thriving Recover Your Life series. Belonging is designed to follow either Forming or Restarting. Belonging blends the Forming and Restarting classes together and creates a particularly helpful blend for Belonging participation. Belonging is training and these 90 days require over 60 exercises during class and for homework.
Join Ed Khouri in the high Sierra for an adventure in appreciation and a closer walk with God. The wonderful beauty of the mountains and creation are blended with Ed’s warmth, encouragement and stories. Ed turns deep and complicated truths into thoughts as clear as the mountain streams. You are going to be amazed!
Belonging is built around training and homework. Careful steps are taken to form training groups that provide encouragement, support and diversity needed to work on belonging skills. Groups are helped by “belonging coordinators” at each “round table” who receive additional support and training each week to help their group return.
Belonging Institutional Teaching License
The Belonging Institutional/Teaching License is intended for leading a Belonging group in a treatment program or center where the participants are screened for admission or their participation is paid. This includes all educational and treatment programs whether inpatient or outpatient. The Institutional/Teaching License provides the license holder with a full set of the twelve lessons, instructions for group participation in key exercises, full facilitator training video for the course and the full set of instructions for each week for the belonging coordinators. This instruction for belonging coordinators is also available on line through the www.thrivingrecovery.org webiste for belonging coordinators from licensed groups. On-line participation allows ongoing instruction and exchange of ideas for the belonging coordinators globally. Your Institutional/Teaching License also provides discounted prices on the Belonging workbooks and access to purchase the Belonging Facilitator workbooks and selected Belonging products.
If you qualified for a Restarting License scholarship, you still need to apply for a Belonging License scholarship. Qualifications for the Belonging scholarship are different and approval for one does not guarantee approval for the other. Email materials@lifemodel.org to request the application.
Belonging Facilitator Training DVD
 The facilitator for Belonging does far more training than was the case in Forming or Restarting. Ed Khouri begins this double DVD set with a 21-minute overview of the objectives for facilitators and then provides well over two hours of instruction covering the more than 60 exercises in the Belonging training. You will see live demonstrations of two exercises that are as simple and fun as can be when you see them, but hard to follow when you only read the written instructions. While the instructions in the workbook are clear, in Belonging Facilitator Training Ed lays out the purpose for each exercise, problems to watch for and solutions to common difficulties. Ed’s sense of humor and love for this work make it enjoyable learning and essential training for every facilitator.
Join Ed Khouri in the high Sierra for an adventure in appreciation and a closer walk with God. The wonderful beauty of the mountains and creation are blended with Ed’s warmth, encouragement and stories. Ed turns deep and complicated truths into thoughts as clear as the mountain streams. You are going to be amazed!
Ed Khouri sits by a fire in one of the oldest ranches in the Western Sierra and provides direction for the belonging coordinators under a ceiling full of Wild West bullet holes.
Join Ed Khouri in the high Sierra for an adventure in appreciation and a closer walk with God. See if you can spot where Ed had to stand on tarantula nests to tell his story. Watch for the chipmunks that join his lesson. The wonderful beauty of the mountains and creation are blended with Ed’s warmth, encouragement and stories. Ed turns deep and complicated truths into thoughts as clear as the mountain streams. You are going to be amazed!
Learn more about Belonging here and discover the transformation Belonging produces.
 Belonging Student Workbook
The Belonging student workbook is beautifully designed. The 184 pages contain all the instructions for the more than 60 Belonging exercises. This workbook includes all worksheets for homework and exercises in class. All the teaching video notes are included along with room to make your own notes on significant parts of presentations.
Belonging is training and every Belonging participant will need the materials to record, observe, share and organize their training experience. Discounted prices are available on workbooks for facilitators with an Open Group or Institutional/Teaching license for Belonging.
Events
We suggest that all Belonging and THRIVE facilitators consider the three year intensive training from THRIVE with the 19 skills. The next THRIVE training events are this summer!. Click here for the details
NEWS
These handy cards are also available for purchase! Buy a pack and pass them out to your groups!
Be sure to encourage your round table coordinators to utilize our FREE online training and message board area!
Click here for the link!
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