Information on the strategies and techniques used in the Go Get Sober Guidance ProgrammeOr, WHAT WE KNOW WORKS WHEN DEALING WITH ADDICTIONS AND CHANGING HABITS AND WHERE TO FIND IT IN GO GET SOBER.
There are certain strategies that work really well when helping people to change their habits and overcome addictive behaviours. We know these strategies work because they’ve been used successfully by experienced therapists, counsellors and coaches over many years and have proved highly effective in helping people make lasting and permanent changes.
(Some of the scientific language used below comes from the world of Neuro Linguistic Programming, or NLP, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and might be unfamiliar to you. Suggestions for further reading and information is given at the bottom of this page).
What works well 1: A therapeutic environment with trust, rapport, a credible authority figure and appropriate outcomes/goalsWhere to find it in Go Get Sober:
- Private Support Forum
- Private messaging with Jo
- Jo’s professional expertise
- All activities involve members being in control of their own goal-setting but they are guided into doing this using appropriate and helpful strategies
- Module 3 “Setting well-formed goals” activities
- Online coaching sessions
What works well 2: Using representational systems to enhance communicationWhere to find it in Go Get Sober:
- Private messaging with Jo
- Online Support Forum
- Online coaching sessions
- Blogs & vlogs
What works well 3: Goal-setting and having a proactive involvement in, and ownership over, forming your own goalsWhere to find it in Go Get Sober:
- All activities involve members being in control of their own goal-setting but they are guided into doing this using appropriate and helpful strategies
- Module 3 “Setting well-formed goals” activities
- Online coaching sessions
What works well 4: Using the Meta Model to challenge unhelpful thinkingWhere to find it in Go Get Sober:
- Private messaging with Jo
- Online Support Forum
- Online coaching sessions
- Blogs & vlogs
What works well 5: Challenging “labelling” and focusing on changing behaviour insteadWhere to find it in Go Get Sober:
- Private messaging with Jo
- Online Support Forum
- Blogs & vlogs
- Online coaching sessions
What works well 6: Keeping motivation strong by acknowledging gradations of success
Where to find it in Go Get Sober:
- Blogs & vlogs
- Getting Sober Record and instructions
- Module 2 Guidance (Focusing on Gains)
What works well 7: Examining, disputing and changing irrational beliefs
Where to find it in Go Get Sober:
- Private messaging with Jo
- Online Support Forum
- Online coaching sessions
- Blogs & vlogs
- Module 4 DILTS’ Logical Levels activity
- Module 5 Making Meaning Model and activities
- Module 5 Limiting Beliefs activities
- Module 6 Alternative Reality activity
What works well 8: Encouraging patience with learning and practice
Where to find it in Go Get Sober:
- Private messaging with Jo
- Online Support Forum
- Online coaching sessions
- Blogs & vlogs
- Module 1 Conscious Competence Learning Model
What works well 9: Daily recording and reflecting
Where to find it in Go Get Sober:
- Private messaging with Jo
- Online Support Forum
- Online coaching sessions
- Getting Sober Record and instructions
What works well 10: Creating a future, positive self-image
Where to find it in Go Get Sober:
- All Module 1 activities
- Module 5 What do I want to have happen? activity
- Module 6 Alternative Reality activity
What works well 11: Sharing educational information
Where to find it in Go Get Sober:
- All Module and Step Guidance
- Online Support Forum
- Blogs & vlogs
What works well 12: Sharing motivational strategies
Where to find it in Go Get Sober:
- Online Support Forum
- Blogs & vlogs
- Private messaging with Jo
- Getting Sober Record and Instruction
- All Module 1 activities
- Module 2 Focus on Gains activity
- Module 3 Motivation Review
- Module 4 Positive Intentions activity
What works well 13: Sharing coping strategies
Where to find it in Go Get Sober:
- Blogs & vlogs
- All audios
- Getting Sober Record and instructions
- Module 1 Imagine the Difference activity
- Module 2 Focus on Gains activity
- Module 2 Finding Support Within activities
- Module 3 Triggers activities
- Module 6 Anchoring activities
What works well 14: Sharing strategies for dealing with high-risk situations
Where to find it in Go Get Sober:
- Blogs & vlogs
- All audios
- Getting Sober Record and instructions
- Module 1 Imagine the Difference activity
- Module 3 Triggers activities
- Module 6 Anchoring activities
What works well 15: Receiving personalised feedback
Where to find it in Go Get Sober:
- Online Support Forum
- Private messaging with Jo
- Online coaching sessions
For further reading and interest, see SOBRIETY DEMYSTIFIED by Byron A Lewis and ALCOHOL BRIEF INTERVENTIONS FOR MILITARY PERSONNEL MOVING BACK TO CIVILIAN LIFE by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and University of Teesside.
