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NARCONON - Life Skills Courses

Once a person has cleaned their body out through the Sauna programme it is time to go to work on the person themselves. Most people who become addicts are using the addiction to deal with part of their life. Over 40 years of practice has proven that these courses are the courses that can help put their addiction in the past. After these courses the person will be able to deal with their life better.

The NARCONON programme gives heavy emphasis to improving a person’s ability to deal with life. Some of the areas addressed are confronting skills, communication skills, study skills, integrity, anti-social versus social people, goals and social conduct. The result is an individual more comfortable with his life and able to do well. The practice of these skills is extremely therapeutic in and of itself.

The Therapeutic Training Routines Course

Exercises in confronting and communication skills improve the students ability to be comfortable in any situation and comfortably confront other people, to listen and communicate well and to exercise effective self-control.

The Learning Improvement Course

This is a short, but very powerful course that gives a person some new techniques on how to study more effectively towards the result of a real world ability to apply information learned to their lives. This information is needed in all subsequent courses to ensure the students get the full benefits and will be extremely helpful in all areas of life.

The Communication and Perception Course

Drug addicts or alcoholics frequently fabricate reality and live in a delusional world. When drugs or alcohol wear off an addict feels their life has been shattered. To re-establish the facade they must use again and again, perpetuating the cycle of addiction. This course thoroughly addresses that.

Part One is a course identical to the first one, the Therapeutic Training Routines Course of confronting and communicating, but it is done to a much higher standard. The first course is preparation for the sauna, this tougher course prepares a student for Part Two of this section.

Part Two consists of a series of exercises, done with another student (called a twin), that are run repetitively until certain objectives are achieved. In fact, the exercises are named objectives because they help extrovert the student from past upsets and other chaos associated with past drug and alcohol abuse and get the person’s attention onto objects in their present environment. The student learns to be in control of himself and his environment and achieves a better sense of responsibility by helping his twin through the course. Many students experience spectacular life-changing realisations while doing it.

The Ups and Downs in Life Course

The lifestyle of a drug addict is filled with negative associations and influences. These perpetuate the addict’s use of drugs and alcohol. This course helps the student evaluate the characteristics of constructive and destructive personality types, so that they can select their friends and associates more carefully to establish a more stable, secure personal environment.

The Personal Values and Integrity Course

This course provides the data and exercises through which confronting past destructive actions, the student regains his personal integrity and accepts personal responsibility.

The Changing Conditions in Life Course

This course enables the student to evaluate the state of different parts of their lives and how to change these for the better, step by step, until not only one achieves a more desirable condition for each but the student can also see how they can achieve all their worthwhile plans.

The Way to Happiness™ Course

This course is a study of a non religious moral code based wholly on common sense. A student will see on studying this course that his own conduct is important to his own happiness and they will also learn how to help others do well around them.

Once a person has completed this last course they are then ready to graduate from the programme.

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