This Friday: Recovery Skills Class
The AspenPointe Colorado Spirit: Waldo Support Team will present their Recovery Skills Classes again, this time in a single extended session.
When:
Friday, May 24, 2013
9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Where:
AspenPointe's Ruskin Location
220 Ruskin Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80910
RSVP:
If you would like to attend the class, please RSVP to waldosupport@AspenPointe.org.
What:
The topic covered will be Skills for Psychological Recovery, a set of skills that will help individuals reduce distress and improve functioning.
Skill sets include:
- Building Problem-Solving Skills: A method to define a problem and goal, brainstorm a number of ways to solve it, evaluate those ways, then try out the solution that seems most likely to help.
- Promoting Positive Activities: A way to improve mood and functioning by identifying and engaging in positive and pleasurable activities.
- Managing Reactions: Skills to cope with and reduce distressing physical and emotional reactions to upsetting situations.
- Promoting Helpful Thinking: Steps to identify upsetting thoughts and to counter these thoughts with less upsetting ones.
- Rebuilding Healthy Social Connections: A way to rebuild positive relationships and community supports.
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Colorado Springs Together is an independent 501(c)(3) Non-Profit:
Colorado Springs Together is a community-driven volunteer effort, and is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The team members are distinguished citizens, business professionals and dedicated public servants in the community, facilitating and coordinating a quick and effective rebuilding process for the neighborhoods devastated on June 26, 2012, by the Waldo Canyon Fire.
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