RECOVERY COMMUNITY
WE UNITE.
WE UNDERSTAND.
The Dynamo Project places a huge emphasis on building a strong recovery community. This can be done using various methods and aims to support you all the way in achieving your goal of recovery. We feel with your active participation within our project and also if you are staying with us in LILAC, that will go a long way with helping you build confidence and the motivation required to get out there and to build connections within the community.
This project is not about wrapping you up in cotton wool- you’re not children at the end of the day,- you’re addicts; which means you will need help and support, particularly in your early stages of recovery. Needing help and support will be an on-going requirement but as time progresses and you gain more and more strength, you will then form the help and support for another person who has been where you were. A strong recovery is built on numerous factors- abstinence being the main one- but the best chance of you succeeding with this is to be around people who share the same aims as you and people who care about you and understand how important remaining abstinent is. Maintaining this abstinence, in our opinion, is what a lot of people like ourselves have struggled with and this is where we feel there is a need for our project. We want everyone who comes to us to have the opportunity, alongside the support and encouragement to become productive members of society and live free from active addiction.
We want to be a part of your ongoing recovery process. We want so much for you, not only to remain abstinent, but to grow and start having hope again. You may want to rebuild broken relationships, look to form new ones, return to work, start a family in the future, whatever it may be; we are to hear to tell you that it’s possible, we have seen it and we have lived it. We are not therapists or doctors, we are people who have been where you are and are passionate about helping individuals thrive in recovery, at the end of the day, we are experts by experience.
Mutual aid is such a huge part of maintaining a strong recovery (12 step meetings, SMART etc), we will facilitate in any way we can to help with regular meeting attendance. As staff, we attend these meetings and we are not asking you to do anything we are not doing ourselves. You will be encouraged to actively participate at these meetings, to treat it as just a turning up exercise will be detrimental to your recovery, if you want what’s on offer, then you must put in the work to earn it.
Look upon it as needing a recovery tool box; different circumstances, situations etc. may require different tools to deal with them and the more tools you have, the more chance you have in being able to fix whatever the problem may be. Your toolbox will grow over time. You may find yourself having a favourite tool you use time and time again but its better to have other options and not need them, rather than to need them at some stage and not have them. Having a strong recovery tool box goes a long way to relapse prevention.