Communication Skills

Often times, an addict or alcoholic will be deficient in communication skills and those that help them to face and handle. Narconon offers comprehensive courses on communication and perception. These courses are designed to either establish or improve these abilities.

Addicts and alcoholics use drugs and alcohol as a means of escape. They have generally withdrawn from family and friends and will need some help reestablishing those relationships. Rather than confronting a situation, especially an unpleasant one, they use drugs or drink, in order to avoid the circumstances. They use drugs or alcohol to alter the way they feel. They have adapted themselves to numbing their sensations and feelings with drugs and know no other form of coping. The problem here is that the drug or alcohol use is not a solution and when they have to face reality again, they feel worse. By the time they reach for help through rehabilitation they usually have seriously compromised these abilities. They, in turn, lose their self respect and become more and more deficient in self confidence.

Narconon is a premier drug and alcohol drug treatment program is designed to aid any individual in rebuilding communication skills. Two of the eight portions of the programs are geared toward this deficiency in addicts and alcoholics.

Actually, communication is among the first issue that is addressed. In the Communication Course, students are drilled in a series of simple exercises that have been created to assist the person with various types of social interaction.  Each exercise has been developed to help the individual with specific needs in communication and the ability to confront. We call these simple exercises training routines.

These drills teach each student to be comfortable within themselves and among others, as well.  The ability to respond appropriately is among the skills to be refined. Not only do these exercises train the person on communication and confront, they provide help in dealing with others. Drills are designed to develop the ability to deliver messages, understand and acknowledge communications. Students work in pairs, and are paired with personalities, age and other qualities, figured into the equation. They work in a classroom setting with a Course Supervisor on hand to help them in any way. Students are held accountable for learning these techniques for themselves; however, supervisors are there to assist them in finding the answers. This simple act of accountability empowers the student and begins to boost their self confidence.

Here is one testimonial from an individual who has benefitted from Narconon’s

Communication Skills course:

“This course was amazing! I was at the tail end of withdrawing from heroin and was feeling sick and aching. I started doing the 2nd drill, which deals with confronting another person. After a while, all the sickness and aches disappeared. I realized at the end that most of my drug use was due to my inability to confront people and situations. I knew I could live without drugs at that point, something I didn’t think was possible before doing this course.” – Narconon Graduate G.S.

A major portion of the Narconon rehab program is the Communication and Perception Course, otherwise known as Objectives. Because addicts and alcoholics tend to dwell on the past, they have not, nor know not how to make realistic plans for the future. This portion of the program is designed to bring them out of the past and into present time. This is achieved through a well developed set of drills, to be performed with another student, to improve the individual’s ability to focus on goals and objectives and also to be persistent so that these goals are actually attainable for each student. There are eleven of these exercises and they are all performed in a classroom setting with a Course Supervisor present to assist them. In this course, students become keenly aware of their immediate environment and this enables them the ability to resolve problems and situations as they arise. Towards the completion of this entire course, students generally tend to brighten and become totally confident in their own abilities. Each drill is designed to create a desirable effect that will benefit the student for the rest of their life.

Here is another testimonial from someone who completed the Communication and Perception Course:

“Before I came to treatment, I didn’t have an objective viewpoint on anything. Drugs had clouded my ability to see things as they really were. All I saw when I looked at someone, even my own family, was someone I could get money from for drugs. The Communication and Perception course pulled me out of past bad experiences that were affecting my thinking and behavior. My past is a chapter that is now closed, and for the first time in 25 years I’m free to be and do what I choose.” – Narconon Graduate L.D.

Described above are only the communication and perception courses. The Narconon program is a full comprehensive program that empowers each and every student that comes through the door. Call 800-468-6933 for more information.

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