Addiction, Systems of Care, and the Inability to Find Resolution

April 25, 2:30pm-4pmET
 

People are tired of care that goes nowhere. Formulaic approaches to therapy and treatment are still barely scratching the surface, attending to behaviors that offer the illusion of change without ever touching the underlying patterns of systemic oppression. While pockets of innovative awareness have grown particularly around approaches to the nervous system, neuroscience, somatics, and trauma, these contexts are still unable to fully meet the intensity of isolation and absence of resources that people are facing within their daily lives, perpetuating tremendous practitioner burn-out and client despair. The failure of these approaches in turn leads to increased hopelessness, concurrent depression and anxiety, a high level of recidivism, and increased addiction and pharmacological reliance. Across the board we know this is not working. 

 

I have spent 25 years in the healthcare industry, both as a practitioner and also as a business owner, creating new systems of care. I have seen and watched the evolution of the care model for a very long time. What I see now is that we are at a tipping point that everybody is recognizing. The way that we have done care, the framework we have used, and the methods we are applying are old, dying, and inadequate.

 

In this talk I'm going to cover what the problems are with the current landscape of care. How the care system is still inadvertently creating harm. How there are great people in the system who are burned out and don’t know what to do. And how the way forward can be found within a new framework that centers vitality, honesty, and an evolutionary maturation lens designed to meet us where we are today.