Recovery Coach Academy

This five-day, 30-hour training is an intense, immersive experience designed to equip individuals with the skills, knowledge, and mindset necessary to support people in recovery effectively. RCAC 30 is not a passive learning experience. It is emotionally and mentally demanding, calling individuals to be fully present throughout the week. The training encourages deep personal reflection, challenges assumptions, and fosters the type of honest, courageous conversations that define impactful Recovery Coaching.

Coaches will explore what it truly means to walk alongside someone in recovery, offering support without fixing, empowering without directing, and connecting without judgment. This course is as much about personal growth as it is about professional skill-building. By the end, individuals will not only understand the core principles of Recovery Coaching, but also have experienced the kind of presence, resilience, and self-awareness that effective coaching requires.

Course Overview:

• Establishing working agreements and expectations
• Defining recovery and exploring diverse recovery pathways
• Clarifying what a Recovery Coach is and is not
• Introduction to the COACH Approach
• Identifying and unpacking personal and systemic bias
• Examining stigma and its impact on recovery
• Assessing the assets and liabilities of storytelling in a coaching relationship
• Setting and maintaining boundaries in Recovery Coaching
• Harnessing the power of open-ended questions
• Collaboratively building wellness and recovery plans
• Differentiating SMART goals from NOT SMART goals
• Understanding record-keeping practices in coaching
• Navigating crisis situations and knowing when to refer

Training details, including the schedule, location, and pre-course materials, will be sent by our team in advance.