Narconon Newsletter 24-02-2011

Welcome to the Narconon Newsletter.

There are so many people of goodwill doing what they can to help others and improve conditions in our society. We are very fortunate to meet many of these people through the kind of work we are doing here so it makes sense that we help each other to achieve the end goals. We are re-publishing this newsletter as there has been an increased demand over the months for our advice and leadership in the field of Rehabilitation from all kinds of people of good will. Those people include the police, religious groups and community leaders. We aim to service these groups more and there are many projects underway at the moment which I am sure you will be hearing more about soon!

Some time ago we had two very special guests at Narconon Hastings. The father of one of our former students, who is a psychotherapist and is working with underprivileged youngsters who have fallen through the net, came with one of his colleagues to do some training in the methodology we use at Narconon. The purpose being to further increase their success in effectively helping these young people to re-direct their lives in a survival manner.

These guys had a lot of fun here and in their own words here is what they had to say:

“I have been a UKCP registered psychotherapist for 6 years and have in my time worked with many issues that have caused distress and suffering to numerous people. With the application of therapeutic interventions that have been drawn from many modalities, I have been able to facilitate these clients to find their own solutions.

I now also work with young people aged between 16 and 21 that have fallen into a dangerous area of not having employment, training or education. As a result they run the risk of mortality from any number of associated risks, most notable of which are alcohol and drugs. A recent study showed that as many as 16% of this group are dead within 10 years! When this statistic is examined this equates to a staggering and horrific statistic of 6 deaths per day!

I came to Narconon Hastings with an objective of understanding the methodology behind the very successful rehabilitation of substance abusers. I had no clear idea of what to expect but was prepared to do whatever I was asked to meet this objective.

I began with looking at a book that detailed’ Learning How to Learn’. I felt somewhat surprised to discover that this book was aimed at children, further than that it was aimed at very young children! Oh no! I thought, this is not what I need, I already know how to learn having successfully studied for four years for my post graduate diploma in psychotherapy. What are they thinking that I am stupid? However I stuck with it, and through the material I realised that there were a great many things that I have gone through life not understanding. Not only that but all the time that I have laboured and sweated ‘blood and tears’ to gather the knowledge had been not only avoidable but unnecessary!

What I discovered through this programme was that there are simple errors in the way that I understood how to learn that once corrected made the absorption and understanding of any information both easy and enjoyable! I was liberated and revitalised in my attitude to study, and was now actually looking forward to a research project that I was about to commence!

I then went on to do the’ Ups & Downs in Life Course’ and I discovered that there were many influences that I had little or no awareness of that had a massive effect on my life. People and influences had affected my journey through life. Having become aware of this it was like a light going on in a very dark room! Not only that but I have the tools and skills that I have practiced to handle these influences in the future! So empowering.

Given my objective of helping young people I now have, what I consider to be the most powerful, empowering and ground-breaking (in my experience) tools that not only support but equip young people for their future!

A thank you seems so inadequate for the personal development that I have experienced. More so for the tools that I now feel I have to help young people.
Personally I look forward to working with all that I have learned and experienced and from this point, what has happened to me will positively influence the future of innumerable young people in the future.”
Chris Haygarth PGDHP, UKCP
Clinical Psychotherapist


“My name is Gary Harley. My background is as a Youth and Community Worker and now a psychotherapist. I first got involved with Narconon when my son became addicted to cocaine and spent time at Narconon. I was very interested in the way that Narconon worked with their students and very impressed by the simple and powerful way that life skills are delivered on the various courses.

I now do some intervention work with young people labelled N.E.E.T.’s, not in education, employment or training. Over the last ten years, this category aged between 16 – 24 years has been dying at a rate of 6.3 per day from alcohol or drug related causes. That is 22,350 over a ten year period. I knew that the Narconon life skills programmes would help.

Myself and another colleague called Chris came to Narconon to spend a week completing the ‘Learning How to Learn’ course and the ‘Ups and Downs in Life’ course and also looked at other materials. Our intention is to take this learning out into the community and deliver it to N.E.E.T.’s young people. We intend to give these young people the tools they need to allow them to re-engage into education, training or employment and to give them a positive view of the future and to allow them to become happy and healthy positive members of their communities.

I have gained so much by being here at Narconon Hastings. The remarkable staff and positive students have made us feel so welcome. This is the first training course I have been on that I did not want to leave at the end. I am full of energy for the task ahead and looking forward to returning very soon.
Thank you for all that you have given to us.”
Gary Hartley.

Best Regards,

Narconon London - Hastings Branch