Other Resources

How LifeRing Works — The Shortest Version (Video animation, 1 min 38 sec)

How LifeRing Works — the Longest Version. Full day (six hours) inservice training for members of CAADAC, Sept. 19, 2009 by Martin Nicolaus. 200 PowerPoint slides. Download (7.5 mb!)

Presenting LifeRing: A Primer for Addiction Professionals. A magazine-format introduction to LifeRing for persons employed in the healing professions. It features a seminal article by the eminent historian and trainer William L. White, “Styles of Secular Recovery,” co-authored with LifeRing founder Martin Nicolaus. Also includes article “How (Our) Self-Help Groups Work” (the medium version). Free to requesters with a business card or to a treatment agency or office address. Download PDF.

Choice of Support Groups: It’s the Law. Referral Practice in the Aftermath of Inouye v. Kemna. This concerns a Dec. 2007 federal court decision affirming that a treatment professional in a government role can be sued for monetary damages for coercing a client into a 12-step program over the client’s religious objections.
There are four options for this content:

Article in Counselor, the Magazine for Addiction Professionals (PDF).

PowerPoint presentation at 2008 CAADAC conference, below. Big file, takes a while to load. When it shows, click to advance slides. No audio.)
Informal video of the above presentation, done on the spur of the moment by an audience participant with a Flip video camcorder; 46 minutes.
LifeRing Press brochure, PDF download.

LifeRing Press books:

Empowering Your Sober Self: The LifeRing Approach to Addiction Recovery. The one book to read if you’re reading only one.

Recovery by Choice: Living and Enjoying Life Free of Alcohol and Drugs, a Workbook. Helps clients build their Personal Recovery Programs in a structured way.

How Was Your Week? Bringing People Together in Recovery the LifeRing Way. A handbook for meeting facilitators, it may also be of interest to treatment professionals.

Professional References

Letters of reference for LifeRing from managers of three treatment programs with LifeRing meetings onsite:

Kaiser Permanente Chemical Dependency Recovery Program, Oakland CA
Acute Crisis Intervention Ward, Alta-Bates-Summit Hospital, Herrick Campus, Berkeley CA
Merritt-Peralta Institute, Oakland CA

View all three letters in PDF.

Preferred Provider Listings

“Where can I find a treatment facility that does not cram the 12 Steps down my throat?” “I have tried the 12-Step treatment approach and it just didn’t work for me. I want to try something else.” ”I have heard there are alternatives to the 12-Step treatment method — but where can I find them?”

Questions like these come to the LifeRing Service Center and to the various LifeRing online venues all the time.

As a service to these callers, this website maintains a list of Preferred Providers. Preferred Providers are programs, practice groups, or individual practitioners who offer something broader than only the 12-Step method. Some providers are predominantly 12-Step but also offer other options. Some offer other approaches than 12-Step altogether.

If you think you qualify and would like to be listed as a Preferred Provider, please contact webmaster@lifering.org. There is no charge for these listings.

LifeRing participants: who are they?

Membership survey results (PDF)

Testimonials

Comments

Wisata Bali 22-12-2010, 00:01

woh I like your articles , saved to my bookmarks ! .