Choose Freedom Facilitator’s Guide
Part of the Choose Freedom ProgramSee Organization Page For More Information
Excerpt from Foreword written by the Medical Director of the American Association of Christian Counselors
“Rose Ann has wonderfully harnessed what she learned through her addiction struggle and subsequent psychospiritual healing journey to bring hope and victory to many. Her curriculum pulls back the curtain to show how addictions aren’t as mysterious, complex, or overwhelming as we commonly think.”
Part of the Choose Freedom Program
Facilitator’s Guide for the Choose Freedom Program
Our Facilitator’s Guide is an indispensable resource designed to support those who license the Choose Freedom program. Tailored for coaches, counselors, and faith-based organizations, this guide provides comprehensive, step-by-step instructions to ensure that you deliver the program with confidence and effectiveness.
Key Benefits:
Step-by-Step Instructions: The guide offers clear, detailed instructions for each session, empowering you to lead participants through the transformative journey of the Choose Freedom program.
Confidence Building: With everything you need at your fingertips, the guide helps you build confidence, regardless of your experience level, enabling you to engage and inspire participants effectively.
Understanding the LIE Acronym: Learn about the LIE acronym—a powerful tool to help participants manage temptation and stay on track.
Appendices: The guide concludes with appendices that feature the writings of each Core Concept as delivered in the program’s video sessions, allowing participants to deepen their understanding through independent study.
The Core Concepts
Key concepts are outlined to equip you with the understanding and perspective necessary to guide participants through their journey. They include the following:
1. The Truth About Temptation
2. I Get To!
3. Capture Your Thoughts
4. The Science of Love and Fear
5. Finding Truth
6. The Lord’s Prayer
7. Forgiveness of Self
8. Forgiveness of Others
9. The Greatest Commandments
10. Finding Purpose
11. It’s Addictive
12. The Full Armor of God
What’s Inside
Discover the origins of the Choose Freedom program and the foundational principles that guide its design, helping you convey the program’s purpose and vision to participants.
Methodology and Languaging Shifts
Aligned with guidance from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association (SAMHSA), this section provides essential insights into the methodology and the language shifts that promote a positive, empowering approach to recovery.
Handling Setbacks
Receive guidance on how to have constructive and compassionate conversations when a participant drinks during the challenge, turning setbacks into opportunities for growth.
Weekly Core Concepts
Detailed instructions for each Core Concept, including a checklist, objectives, key questions, and a timetable to run group meetings effectively. This section also includes opening and closing prayer options to create a spiritually grounded atmosphere.
Virtual Connection Methods:
Explore best practices for connecting with your group virtually, ensuring that distance doesn’t hinder the sense of community and support.
Guidance on Additional Member Engagement:
Strategies and tips for keeping participants engaged and motivated throughout the program.
Enrollment Strategies:
Practical advice on how to effectively enroll people in the program, ensuring a strong start to the recovery journey.
The Author
Rose Ann found physical, spiritual, and psychological transformation in a secular coaching program that she used to change her relationship with alcohol over a period of 90 days. She started working for the program as an Enrollment and Client Journey Coach after her own transformation. As a result, she met many other Christians, like herself, that were looking for a solution to the problem other than the current faith-based 12 step methodologies that existed at the time. She started writing daily scripture and prayers for the Christian participants in a notebook and would take a photo of it and send to them each morning. These scriptures aligned perfectly with the methodologies used in the program. The participants liked it so much that they encouraged her to continue. She was led by the Holy Spirit to create a devotional that could help people, like herself, get free of the psychological slavery of their alcohol habit. The name for the devotional was born out of the promises made to her in Jeramiah 29:11. God had a plan for her and delivered on it after she was set free from her alcohol habit.
