SUNDAY COMMUNITY DINNER & GRATITUDE CIRCLE
Every Sunday evening at 5:30 PM we host a gourmet, chef-prepared community dinner and gratitude circle for our clients, alumni, community members, staff, clinicians, and facilitators. We truly believe that connection- compassionate community, is vital part of the medicine that heals. The weekly menu is posted on our Instagram. All are welcome, please contact us to RSVP.
RESIDENTIAL PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE
These groups are for our residential clients only-
click here for our Virtual IOP schedule.
Daily Groups
9:00 Mindset & Intentions in Recovery: By regularly setting intentions, participants gain clarity and focus, helping them to align their actions with their recovery goals. This practice promotes mindfulness, encouraging individuals to stay present and make conscious decisions that support their sobriety. Intention setting fosters a sense of purpose and motivation, which can be particularly empowering during challenging times. Additionally, the group dynamic provides a supportive environment where members can share their intentions and hold each other accountable, strengthening their commitment to recovery. Overall, this practice enhances self-awareness, emotional regulation, and resilience, contributing to a more robust and sustained recovery journey.
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10:00 Kundalini (Mon/Wed/Fri): Kundalini is a form of yoga that focuses on awakening the dormant energy at the base of the spine and channeling it upwards through the chakras. This practice combines breathwork, meditation, chanting, and physical postures to promote spiritual awakening and overall well-being. For people in recovery, Kundalini yoga offers numerous benefits. It helps reduce stress and anxiety, which are common triggers for relapse, by calming the nervous system. The emphasis on mindfulness and self-awareness aids in emotional regulation and self-control. Additionally, the meditative aspects of Kundalini foster inner peace and a deeper connection to oneself, promoting healing and resilience. This holistic approach supports physical, mental, and spiritual recovery, helping individuals build a strong foundation for lasting sobriety.
Monday
11:00 Transitional Support: This discharge planning group is designed to help individuals prepare for transitioning from Red Door to their daily lives. The focus is on developing practical strategies, securing necessary resources, and establishing support systems to ensure a successful and sustainable recovery.
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1:00 12 Dimensions: The 12 Dimensions of Human Health and Wellness group is designed to provide individuals in substance use recovery with a comprehensive, supportive space to explore and improve various aspects of their well-being. This group focuses on key dimensions such as sleep, exercise, relationships, medical care, housing, and personal goals, recognizing that recovery is a holistic process. Through guided discussions, goal-setting exercises, and peer support, participants assess their current challenges, set realistic wellness goals, and develop strategies for lasting change. Each session encourages collaboration, accountability, and shared problem-solving, empowering members to build healthier lifestyles and strengthen their recovery journey. By addressing these interconnected dimensions, the group fosters balance, resilience, and sustainable progress in a supportive and understanding environment.
2:00 The Heroes Journey: The "Hero's Journey" group utilizes Joseph Campbell's narrative framework to guide participants through their unique recovery and sobriety journeys. In this group, clients explore their personal stories as if they were the protagonists in their own heroic tales, facing obstacles, challenges, and transformative experiences. Members will identify key stages of their journey, such as the "Call to Adventure," where they recognize the need for change, and the "Crisis," where they confront their struggles with substance use. Through guided discussions, creative exercises, and storytelling, participants will gain insight into their emotional landscapes, identify their 'allies' in recovery (such as support systems and coping strategies), and articulate their visions for a successful future. By framing their recovery in this narrative context, clients can foster resilience, build a sense of purpose, and empower themselves to overcome adversity on their path to lasting sobriety.
3:00 Zen Mindfulness: The Zen Mindfulness group is designed to introduce participants to mindfulness and meditation practices that support their journey toward sobriety. Through guided meditations, relaxation techniques, and structured mindfulness exercises, participants learn to cultivate present-moment awareness and develop coping skills for managing cravings and stress. The group also includes listening to lectures on topics such as the science of mindfulness, the benefits of meditation for mental health, and the connection between mindfulness and addiction recovery. By fostering a sense of calm and self-awareness, this group aims to empower individuals to maintain sobriety and enhance their overall emotional well-being, providing them with tools to navigate the challenges of recovery with greater resilience and insight.
Tuesday
10:00 Working with your Anxiety: This group offers a supportive environment for individuals in recovery to explore the intersection of anxiety and creativity. Group members will engage in discussions and activities focused on understanding how anxiety intersects with work or creative expression. Specifically, the group will delve into areas such as managing anxiety related to failure, navigating self-talk and self-censorship, and fostering healthy modes of expression. By addressing these themes, the group aims to provide a platform for individuals to harness their creativity while developing effective strategies to cope with anxiety in their journey towards sobriety.
11:00 Understanding Addiction: Understanding Addiction is a group that combines psychoeducation, process work, and relapse prevention to support clients in developing a deeper awareness of the nature of addiction and its impact on their lives. The group explores the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions of substance use, helping clients identify patterns of behavior, underlying emotional triggers, and distorted beliefs that contribute to continued use. Through discussion, reflection, and skill-building, clients are guided toward healthier coping strategies and empowered to take active steps in their recovery journey.
1:00 Psychospiritual Practices: This is a reflective and experiential group that supports clients in recovery by exploring the intersection of spirituality and recovery. Drawing from various spiritual traditions and contemplative practices—including meditation, prayer, intention-setting, and the use of tarot for self-reflection—the group helps clients access deeper meaning, intuition, and purpose on their healing path. The group invites clients to connect with their inner selves, explore their beliefs, and develop practices that foster spiritual resilience, insight, and a sense of belonging beyond substance use.
2:00 Process Group: This group provides a supportive, client-centered space for participants to explore thoughts, emotions, and relational dynamics in real time. This unstructured group encourages honest sharing, active listening, and interpersonal feedback to help clients increase self-awareness, build emotional regulation skills, and practice vulnerability and connection in a safe therapeutic setting. Through guided facilitation, clients are encouraged to examine patterns, process challenges, and develop healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.
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3:00 Connecting to Recovery with Music: This is a therapeutic group that uses music and song lyrics as tools for emotional exploration and expression. Clients are invited to share and reflect on songs that resonate with their personal experiences, helping them connect more deeply to the emotions, memories, and meanings tied to their recovery journey. The group supports clients in identifying and processing feelings such as grief, hope, anger, and resilience through creative expression, while also fostering connection with peers through shared musical experiences.
6:00 Sound Bath: Our sound bath is a meditative experience where participants lie down and listen to resonant sounds produced by gongs, singing bowls, and chimes. These sounds create soothing vibrations that can help calm the mind and body. This weekly sound bath offers a serene environment to reduce stress, anxiety, and cravings. The immersive experience can enhance mindfulness, promote relaxation, and improve emotional balance, aiding in the healing process. The communal aspect also fosters a sense of connection and support, which is vital for recovery.
Wednesday
11:00 Somatic Writing: Writing is about opening to the new and unknown. The paradox is that it both comes from inside of you and is out of your control! This group bridges the worlds of somatics (mind-body connective practice), creative writing, and recovery. It proposes the ritual of writing as a path to engaging consciousness and ventral vagal activation versus the ritual of addiction as a path to unconsciousness and sympathetic activation and/or dorsal vagal (collapse). We read excerpts from experimental, confessional, auto-fiction writers and poets and begin to feel into words by writing in the present tense and moment. Each group consists of writing instruction and a creative prompt, a 15-minute auto-focused writing exercise, group sharing, and time and space for individual and group processing.
1:00 Grief Group: Examining Buddhist nun Pema Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart as a map to navigating the slipperiness of grief. Grief manifests in our bodies in all different shapes and sizes, can look like any and every emotion, thought, and/or sensation - can sneak up on us and overwhelm us in the moment before we even notice. Pema asks us, What happens when we invite in that which we usually avoid? This group is a safe space to show up with our grief and move a little closer towards it, instead of running away. Making friends with our own shadows and their accompanying insecurity leads to a very simple, understated relaxation and joy, Pema writes. This group is a safe space to be with our grief as it's showing up, and an opportunity to, as a group, read through Pema's masterpiece on grief and loss, examining our own relationships to grief and learning how to stay with ourselves in every moment.
2:00 Experiencing Emotions: This group is designed to help clients identify, express, and process their emotions in a safe and supportive environment. Using tools such as the emotion wheel, mindfulness techniques, and guided discussion, clients are encouraged to deepen their emotional awareness and develop healthier ways of responding to emotional triggers. The group emphasizes the importance of emotional literacy in recovery and aims to reduce emotional avoidance by creating space for authentic sharing and connection.
3:00 12 Dimensions: The 12 Dimensions of Human Health and Wellness group is designed to provide individuals in substance use recovery with a comprehensive, supportive space to explore and improve various aspects of their well-being. This group focuses on key dimensions such as sleep, exercise, relationships, medical care, housing, and personal goals, recognizing that recovery is a holistic process. Through guided discussions, goal-setting exercises, and peer support, participants assess their current challenges, set realistic wellness goals, and develop strategies for lasting change. Each session encourages collaboration, accountability, and shared problem-solving, empowering members to build healthier lifestyles and strengthen their recovery journey. By addressing these interconnected dimensions, the group fosters balance, resilience, and sustainable progress in a supportive and understanding environment.
Thursday
10:00 Service Group: The "Service" group is based on the principle of service and helping people. The idea is to have each group connected and not be a "one-off". The service group will set a tone of mindfulness that each client can carry through the week up to the following Thursday. Each week the clients will have some tangible plan of being of service to someone else, no matter how small. No homework writing assignments, but we will review their experiences in the following group.
11:00 Sex and Love in Recovery: In this group, we will collaboratively explore our desires, sexual and romantic histories, and the impact of upbringing, trauma, identity, and substance use on our sex and love lives. The group will choose topics based on client interests and needs, including but not limited to chemsex, dating while sober, sexual or social anorexia, tantra, kink, and attachment. In a supportive, informative, playful, and affirming space, group members will explore how they wish to improve their relationship to sex, love, pleasure, and relationships, within the context of their recovery.
1:00 Trauma Support: This group is designed to offer compassionate support and practical coping skills in a nurturing environment where individuals can share their stories and connect with others on similar journeys. Members learn techniques for managing stress and anxiety as well as psychoeducation on trauma and the brain. Group discussions focus on understanding trauma, its impact on mental health, and ways to foster resilience. Through shared experiences and mutual support, participants build a sense of community, reducing feelings of isolation. The group encourages personal growth and empowers members to take steps towards healing and recovery, creating a foundation for a healthier, more balanced life.
2:00 Somatic Process: Somatic Process is a body-based therapeutic group designed to support clients in strengthening their recovery and mental health by deepening their connection to their physical and emotional experiences. Through mindfulness practices, grounding exercises, and guided somatic inquiry, clients explore how emotions and sensations live in the body and how to respond to them with greater awareness and regulation. This group emphasizes expanding the window of tolerance for both uncomfortable and pleasurable states, helping participants build resilience, reduce reactivity, and feel more present and empowered in their recovery journey.
3:00 Paths to Recovery: Paths to Recovery is a psychoeducational and process-oriented group that explores the diverse and individualized approaches available for achieving and maintaining sobriety. This group encourages clients to reflect on and discover what recovery means to them by learning about various recovery models such as 12-Step programs, mindfulness-based recovery, health and wellness practices, spiritual development, and other holistic or alternative frameworks. Clients are invited to share their experiences, explore new tools, and build a recovery path that aligns with their personal values, needs, and goals. The group fosters curiosity, open-mindedness, and empowerment as clients find their own meaningful way forward in recovery.
Friday
11:00 Perseverance through Creative Writing: This is a therapeutic group that uses writing as a tool for self-expression, emotional processing, and resilience building in recovery. Through guided prompts, open journaling, and shared reflections, clients explore their personal narratives, uncover deeper insights, and give voice to their experiences with addiction, trauma, and healing. This group supports clients in cultivating perseverance by transforming pain into creative expression and connecting with others through the power of storytelling. No prior writing experience is necessary—just a willingness to explore and express.
1:00 Interpersonal Effectiveness in Community (Required House Meeting): This group will focus on improving relationships and communication skills within our community. There are 4 goals for this group; (1) Effective Communication: Learn assertiveness skills, active listening techniques, and strategies for expressing your needs and boundaries clearly, (2) Conflict Resolution: Develop skills to manage conflicts constructively, negotiate solutions, and maintain positive relationships, (3) Building Empathy: Cultivate empathy and understanding towards others’ perspectives and emotions, (4) Social Skills: Enhance your ability to initiate and maintain meaningful connections in various social contexts.
2:00 Psychodrama: Psychodrama helps sobriety and addiction by allowing individuals to reenact and explore significant life events in a therapeutic setting. Through guided role-playing and dramatic exercises, participants gain insights into their behaviors, emotions, and relationships, providing a deeper understanding of the factors driving their addiction. This experiential approach fosters emotional expression, enhances self-awareness, and promotes healing by addressing unresolved conflicts and trauma. In a supportive group environment, psychodrama empowers individuals to rehearse new, healthier ways of coping with life's challenges, ultimately aiding in their recovery journey.
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