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BACKGROUND

This program is a tremendously well researched and proven program developed by highly experienced professionals.

Mark Williams - PhD Professor of Clinical Psychology University of Oxford

John Teasdale - PhD senior research appts Dept of Psychiatry Oxford and Cambridge

Ziebel Segal - PhD Head of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Unit – Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Jon Kabut - Professor Emeritus of Medicine University of Massachusetts

We have taken this program and done two things with it:-

We have taken this program and done two things with it:-

1. Put it into a wider perspective

We have taken this program and done two things with it:-

1. Put it into a wider perspective

2. Added some small but highly critical steps.

“If this program is so good then why do we need to add these extra dimensions?”

Each year there is $1billon spent on self-help books!!

Each year there is $1billon spent on self-help books!! Now some of these will be very good programs.

Each year there is $1billon spent on self-help books!! Now some of these will be very good programs. So how come the next year another billion gets spent???

The person most likely to buy a self-help book this year is a person who bought a self-help book last year…….

Our fundamental belief is that the reason that even very good programs are limited in their success is because they try to suggest that the answers to peoples problems can all be solved entirely within themselves.

We beg to differ………

The largest dependency issue in our world today (as it has been for many decades) is Alcoholism. It dwarfs all other dependencies put together.

The most successful program developed for tackling alcoholism was not psychology or taking pills

It was the 12 step program of AA

The most successful program developed for tackling alcoholism was not psychology or taking pills It was the 12 step program of AA

This program was first developed in the 1930’s and has spread throughout the world

This program was first developed in the 1930’s and has spread throughout the world

Most importantly it has endured decade after decade.

There is only one reason that a program like this could be so successful for so long

IT MUST WORK!!

• One of the key elements that makes it different from all these other programs is that it recognises a fundamental need for the help of a higher power.

• One of the key elements that makes it different from all these other programs is that it recognises a fundamental need for the help of a higher power.

• If this is the key difference and given the Proven, Enduring success of the 12 steps, it only makes sense to incorporate this key element into our program.

Separately, if the tools we develop in this program only succeed in bringing people back to the person they were, and the life they were living before depression struck

is that enough?

We don’t think so!!!

Our core philosophy comes from Christ’s words:-

“I came that they may have life, and have it to the full”

So that’s it –

Our target is life to the full

Nothing less