A Closer Look at Some of Beachside Group/Lectures

Mastering Financial Sobriety:

This series of lectures teaches our residents about money, covering areas such as:
•    What does financial sobriety look like?
•    How do we learn to be responsible for money management?
•    How do we incorporate good money management into our daily lives?

Creative Problem Solving:

Incorporating lessons from books such as “A Whack on the Side of the Head:  How You Can Be More Creative” by George Willet, “Acceptance Therapy” by Lisa Engelhardt, and “Hope for the Flowers”, client will be invited to see their “problems” differently.  They will be challenged to look at the patterns they co-create and re-create, as well as how to change those behavioral and relationship patterns that keep them stuck.  Along the way we will talk about issues such as:
•    Why it is so important to recreate our lives using goals and intent
•    How to be organized and stay focused
•    Understanding time management so stress does not overwhelm us
•    What attitudes and beliefs we hold about work and career, and how they need to be
•    changed
•    Are we waiting for somebody to take care of us, or are we going to assert ourselves ?

Body Blast: 

Creating an environment of fitness:  Based on the popular program “Px90”, the clients will use their own body weight as well as resistance bands to begin to wake up their bodies, create a habit of healthiness, and realize their own goals.  In addition, there is an informal discussion during the hour about how physical activity can enhance recovery improved skills for a better life, including:
•    Nutrition information: carbs, proteins, fats, and why each is important
•    Cooking / how to plan and prepare meals
•    The importance of water, and the down side of “up” (caffeinated) drinks
•    Healthy and essential self-care
•    Education about principles of “muscle confusion”

Dramatic Play: 

Based on the principles of one of the founders of Psychodrama, Zerka Moreno, the clients are asked to act out conflicts rather than talking about them, acting in “the here and now” regardless of timing of original incident being portrayed, and the clients are encouraged to maximize expression to describe “his or her truth”.  At times, props will be utilized for symbols during this experiential process.
Relationship Group (with Delores Coates):  This group is for women to begin to recognize the relational patterns that they continue to reproduce, which sabotage not only their recovery, but their sense of self.  Within the safe environment of a setting in which the group will be individually assigned by their Case Manager, the clients will explore such issues as enmeshment, co-dependency, and symptom substitution. 

Men Issues and Women’s Issues: 

These groups are dealing with Trauma, using resources such as “The Courage to Heal”, by Bass and Davis, or “Powerwords:  Putting Yourself in the Driver’s Seat” by Dr. Bev Kelly.  The group goes through grief, shame, and other emotions tied to trauma; then uses the group strength to bring out, as well as recognize, the inherent coping mechanisms within each person.  The clients will be encouraged to go beyond survival, into healing.  

Spirituality:  Clients will be lead into a exploration of their conceptualization of their Higher Power.  Using art, journaling, poetry, and play, the clients will be drawn into the experience of their own Higher Power.  Books such as “Little Souls of the Sun” by Donald Neale Walsh will also be used, to encourage continued connection to the soul as well as to the spirit.