Onsite & Zoom Group Training
Onsite & Zoom Group Training
Our live group training offerings can be provided either
in-person (at your location or ours) or remotely via Zoom.
Our Onsite & Zoom 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
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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Our Onsite Trainers
Lorie Hammerstrom
Lorie "Hammer" Hammerstrom has been a volunteer for SMART Recovery since 2005. She is a past member of the Board of Directors, one of the original members of our "Get SMART FAST" training team, and a long-time advocate and volunteer for SMART Recovery Online. Lorie's served as a 4th and 5th grade teacher for over 30 years, having receiving many awards along the way for her teaching skills and her after school Space Camp program. (She's been selected twice to participate in NASA’s Adult Space Camp Academy and received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching) Lorie is a favorite with her students and in our onsite training program!
Matt Frank
Matthew Frank has been facilitating SMART meetings since 2014, in New York City and online. His favorite tools are motivational interviewing and the ABC, where he especially enjoys the contrast between accurate and helpful beliefs. His favorite questions for meetings include "who has ideas for the situation we just heard about?", "what would you like to do differently in the next week?", and "what are the easiest things to do that would be helpful?" Matt has a PhD and multiple financial credentials; outside of SMART, he works for a consulting firm and teaches risk management.
Rae Grady
Rae Grady is an experienced trainer in the fields of addiction, mental health and youth recovery. A former Coordinator of Prevention Services and Community Educator, she has provided training programs for over 15,000 persons. Rae is a past NAMI Board member and USO volunteer. She joined the SMART Recovery National Office team as a Local Onsite Trainer in 2019. “I am so excited to be part of this great organization and help train others in the principals and tools of SMART Recovery. They are life-changing skills that can help all of us!”
Gayeanne Lester
Gayeanne "Sam" Lester has volunteered for SMART Recovery since 2005 as an Online Facilitator, Facilitator Liaison and a team member of the Online Facilitator’s Get SMART Fast training course. Since 2016 she has been conducting Onsite Facilitator Training at facilities for the two-day training course. Sam shares, “Throughout the years, I have always enjoyed being a part of the SMART Recovery community, not only for others but for my own wellbeing. When I am not ‘doing SMART Recovery’, I enjoy my time with our two adult boys and their families while working as a professional photographer.”
Kevin Minnick
Kevin Minnick has been an addictions professional for 30 years in all phases of the field. His involvement with SMART Recovery began in the late 90’s and continued to where he is now, serving as the Chair of the Regional Coordinators Committee. He has served as a volunteer for United Way and other local non-profits in the Indianapolis area over the last 12 years. He is currently a Court Treatment Specialist for the State of Indiana and Hancock County Government.
Frequently Asked Questions
The training cost will vary based upon the number of participants, trainer travel costs, etc. For a Statement of Work (project-specific activities, deliverables, timelines, etc.) and a pricing quote for an Onsite or Zoom training, please submit your information here.
- A meeting room/facility large enough to comfortably seat all attendees classroom style
- A projector, screen, and a laptop with PowerPoint
- Three flip charts on easels (with markers)
- A lavalier microphone and sound system (only if the room is large)
- A 6’ or 8’ table at the front of the room
- Internet access in the training room is helpful, but not required
Please contact us at onsitetraining@smartrecovery.org. Someone will get back to you within 48 hours.
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.
Each trainee will need a Zoom accessible computer.
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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