Instructor Led Group Training
Instructor Led Group Training
Join our highly interactive training programs, delivered via Zoom! Become a certified SMART Recovery facilitator. Gain skills in Motivational Interviewing, SMART Recovery tools, and techniques. Training options include Facilitator Training, Family & Friends, Teen Meeting Facilitation, and specialized programs for correctional settings.
Our Instructor Led Training Offerings
Facilitator Training
This 2-day training event is highly interactive and includes breakout groups providing an opportunity to practice the skill-sets learned - Motivational Interviewing, the SMART Recovery program tools and techniques... and more! Upon completion, you'll be able to start and facilitate a SMART Recovery meeting and/or begin using the SMART tools and techniques with your clients immediately.
Facilitator/Family & Friends Combo
This 3-day training event is highly interactive and includes breakout groups providing an opportunity to practice the skill-sets learned - Motivational Interviewing, the SMART Recovery program tools and techniques... and more! Upon completion, you'll be able to start either a regular SMART meeting or a Family & Friends meeting and begin using the SMART tools with your clients immediately.
SMART Recovery Teen Meeting Facilitator Training
This 2-day Teen Meeting Facilitator Training is highly interactive and will focus on teens in recovery. Dynamic breakout groups, ice breaker questions and discussion topics are added to tailor this training for working with this population. This training provides the ability to facilitate a SMART Recovery meeting for teens or use the SMART tools and techniques with your clients immediately after the training.
Combo Teens/Family & Friends Facilitator Training
The 3-day Teen Meeting Facilitator/Family & Friends Training is highly interactive. This didactive training is a great combination for working with teens and their parents or other loved ones. With the addition of the Family & Friends training it provides the ability to facilitate a SMART Recovery meeting, a Family & Friends meeting, or use the SMART tools and techniques with your clients immediately after training.
InsideOut Training for the Correctional Setting
This 3-day InsideOut Facilitator Training is highly interactive. This training will focus on individuals in the prison system who are in recovery. The principles can also address the criminal thinking patterns that result in illegal behavior, even when that behavior is not addictive. Start to facilitate a SMART Recovery InsideOut meeting or use the SMART tools and techniques with your clients immediately after training.
NAADAC-Approved Education Provider
SMART Recovery is a NAADAC Approved Education Provider. Up to 25-hours of CE credits will be issued to those who meet the CE requirements. Visit our Professional Training page to learn more.
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Reflections of a SMART Facilitator
Dan Hostetler, Executive Director of Above and Beyond Family Recovery Center in Chicago, IL shares some of his own personal reflections and experiences in his role as a SMART Recovery meeting facilitator.
Join Dan and our world-wide team of volunteers in the quest to help people learn to help themselves. In doing so, you’ll not only be helping others “Discover the Power of Choice” … you’ll also experience the enduring, rewarding satisfaction that comes with being of service to others as a SMART Recovery volunteer!
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Frequently Asked Questions
Click here to see pricing for our various Zoom, facilitator-led trainings. If you are interested in reserving your date, and receiving a statement of work and invoice to confirm the receipt of your deposit, please fill out this form. Contact onsitetraining@smartrecovery.org with additional questions.
Each trainee will need a Zoom accessible computer.
No, training participants can include professionals, clinicians, peers, family members, or anyone else in the community wishing to start a SMART meeting. you are both welcome and encouraged to invite community members or others in your area to join the training.
Please contact us at onsitetraining@smartrecovery.org. Someone will get back to you within 48 hours.
Come Learn With Us!
SMART Recovery is unique in the way it supports those desiring to abstain from various forms of addictive behavior. The way we train individuals to become a SMART Recovery meeting facilitator is also unique. We believe our recovery concepts, tools, and meeting facilitation quality play a very significant role in helping individuals abstain from their addictive behavior and in developing life-long healthy self-management choices.
Our training will help you learn about multiple pathways to recovery. "Discover the power of choice!"
COME LEARN WITH US! Our training offerings will give you the knowledge, confidence, and support you need to start a SMART Recovery meeting in your community. Scroll through our training course offerings above to decide which training is right for you!
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