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'''Celebrate Recovery''' ('''CR''') is an international, [[Christian]] [[twelve-step programs|twelve-step recovery program]] aimed at all "hurts, habits, and hang-ups", including but not exclusive to: high anxiety; co-dependency; compulsive behaviors; sex addiction; financial dysfunction; drug and alcohol addictions; and eating disorders.<ref name="LAT">{{cite news|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/40822832.html?dids=40822832:40822832&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+24%2C+1999&author=William+Lobdell&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Religion%3B+12+Steps%2C+Christian+Style%3B+Lake+Forest+Ministry+Has+Helped+Thousands%2C+in+a+Concept+That's+Spread&pqatl=google|title=12 Steps, Christian Style; Lake Forest Ministry Has Helped Thousands, in a Concept That's Spread|last=Lobdell|first=William|date=1999-04-24|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=14 July 2012}}</ref> Promotional materials assert that over 3.5 million people have participated in a Celebrate Recovery step study<ref name="CR-Jacksonville">{{cite web |title=What is Celebrate Recovery? |website=Celebrate Recovery Jacksonville |url=http://www.celebraterecoveryjacksonville.com/ |access-date=22 April 2017}}</ref><ref>Cf. https://store.pastors.com/products/celebrate-recovery-updated-curriculum-kit. Note that this source doesn't specify participation beyond "discovered".</ref> in over 29,000 churches<ref>http://www.celebraterecovery.com/</ref><ref name="CR-Jacksonville"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrate Recovery Updated Curriculum Kit |date=2016 |website=Zondervan |url=http://www.zondervan.com/celebrate-recovery-updated-curriculum-kit |access-date=22 April 2017}}</ref> Approximately two-thirds of these participants are in recovery for something other than drugs or alcohol.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christiansdrugrehab.com/blog/celebrate-recovery-celebrates-25th-birthday/|title=Celebrate Recovery Celebrates 25th Birthday|author=|date=4 August 2016|work=ChristianDrugRehab.com|accessdate=22 April 2017}}</ref>{{better source|date=April 2017}}
'''Celebrate Recovery''' ('''CR''') is an international, [[Christian]] [[twelve-step programs|twelve-step recovery program]] aimed at all "hurts, habits, and hang-ups", including but not exclusive to: high anxiety; co-dependency; compulsive behaviors; sex addiction; financial dysfunction; drug and alcohol addictions; and eating disorders.<ref name="LAT">{{cite news|url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/40822832.html?dids=40822832:40822832&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+24%2C+1999&author=William+Lobdell&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Religion%3B+12+Steps%2C+Christian+Style%3B+Lake+Forest+Ministry+Has+Helped+Thousands%2C+in+a+Concept+That's+Spread&pqatl=google|title=12 Steps, Christian Style; Lake Forest Ministry Has Helped Thousands, in a Concept That's Spread|last=Lobdell|first=William|date=1999-04-24|work=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=14 July 2012}}</ref> Promotional materials assert that over 3.5 million people have participated in a Celebrate Recovery step study<ref name="CR-Jacksonville">{{cite web |title=What is Celebrate Recovery? |website=Celebrate Recovery Jacksonville |url=http://www.celebraterecoveryjacksonville.com/ |access-date=22 April 2017}}</ref><ref>Cf. https://store.pastors.com/products/celebrate-recovery-updated-curriculum-kit. Note that this source doesn't specify participation beyond "discovered".</ref> in over 49,000 churches<ref>http://www.celebraterecovery.com/</ref><ref name="CR-Jacksonville"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrate Recovery Updated Curriculum Kit |date=2016 |website=Zondervan |url=http://www.zondervan.com/celebrate-recovery-updated-curriculum-kit |access-date=22 April 2017}}</ref> Approximately two-thirds of these participants are in recovery for something other than drugs or alcohol.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christiansdrugrehab.com/blog/celebrate-recovery-celebrates-25th-birthday/|title=Celebrate Recovery Celebrates 25th Birthday|author=|date=4 August 2016|work=ChristianDrugRehab.com|accessdate=22 April 2017}}</ref>{{better source|date=April 2017}}
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In addition to the 12 Steps, Celebrate Recovery utilizes eight Recovery Principles that are based on the [[Sermon on the Mount]].<ref name="SMJ">{{cite journal|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.smj.0000198271.72795.ab|last=Brown |first=Anthony E. |author2=Whitney, Simon N. |author3=Schneider, Max A. |author4=Vega, Charles P. |date=June 2006|title=Alcohol Recovery and Spirituality: Strangers, Friends, or Partners?|journal=Southern Medical Journal|volume=99|issue=6|pages=654–657|doi=10.1097/01.smj.0000198271.72795.ab}}</ref>
In addition to the 12 Steps, Celebrate Recovery utilizes eight Recovery Principles that are based on the [[Sermon on the Mount]].<ref name="SMJ">{{cite journal|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.smj.0000198271.72795.ab|last=Brown |first=Anthony E. |author2=Whitney, Simon N. |author3=Schneider, Max A. |author4=Vega, Charles P. |date=June 2006|title=Alcohol Recovery and Spirituality: Strangers, Friends, or Partners?|journal=Southern Medical Journal|volume=99|issue=6|pages=654–657|doi=10.1097/01.smj.0000198271.72795.ab}}</ref>
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=== Large Group ===
=== Large Group ===
Large Group consists of a time of worship, announcements, the reading of the 12 Steps and/or 8 Recovery Principles, the presentation of either one of 25 lessons based on these steps/principles or the testimony of a Celebrate Recovery participant, a chip ceremony recognizing lengths of sobriety/victory over hurts, habits, and hang-ups through, and the reading of the complete version of [[Reinhold Niebuhr]]'s Serenity Prayer. Large Group typically lasts one hour.{{cn|date=April 2017}}
Large Group consists of a time of worship, announcements, the reading of the 12 Steps and/or 8 Recovery Principles, the presentation of either one of 25 lessons based on these steps/principles or the testimony of a Celebrate Recovery participant, a chip ceremony recognizing lengths of sobriety/victory over hurts, habits, and hang-ups through, and the reading of the complete version of [[Reinhold Niebuhr]]'s Serenity Prayer. Large Group typically lasts one hour.<ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrate Recovery Updated Curriculum Kit |date=2016 |website=Zondervan |url=http://www.zondervan.com/celebrate-recovery-updated-curriculum-kit |access-date=22 April 2017}}</ref>


=== Open Share Groups ===
=== Open Share Groups ===
Immediately after Large Group, participants break out into open share groups. Each open share group is gender-specific and issue-specific.{{cn|date=April 2017}} These groups are facilitated by trained group leaders who share and maintain the Five Small Group Guidelines<ref>{{cite web|url=https://crnola.com/about-celebrate-recovery/five-guidelines/|title=5 Guidelines for Celebrate Recovery Small Groups|author=|date=3 February 2014|website=Celebrate Recovery: New Orleans|accessdate=22 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://theaterchurch.com/discipleship/celebrate-recovery/five-small-group-guidelines|title=Celebrate Recovery: Five Small Group Guidelines|author=|date=|publisher=National Community Church|location=Washington, DC|accessdate=22 April 2017}}</ref> at each meeting.<ref name="trademark-dna"/> Open Share Group participants are free to share about their victories and struggles in their particular area of recovery. Open Share Groups typically last one hour.{{cn|date=April 2017}}
Immediately after Large Group, participants break out into open share groups. Each open share group is gender-specific and issue-specific.{{cn|date=April 2017}} These groups are facilitated by trained group leaders who share and maintain the Five Small Group Guidelines<ref>{{cite web|url=https://crnola.com/about-celebrate-recovery/five-guidelines/|title=5 Guidelines for Celebrate Recovery Small Groups|author=|date=3 February 2014|website=Celebrate Recovery: New Orleans|accessdate=22 April 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://theaterchurch.com/discipleship/celebrate-recovery/five-small-group-guidelines|title=Celebrate Recovery: Five Small Group Guidelines|author=|date=|publisher=National Community Church|location=Washington, DC|accessdate=22 April 2017}}</ref> at each meeting.<ref name="trademark-dna"/> Open Share Group participants are free to share about their victories and struggles in their particular area of recovery. Open Share Groups typically last one hour.<ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrate Recovery Updated Curriculum Kit |date=2016 |website=Zondervan |url=http://www.zondervan.com/celebrate-recovery-updated-curriculum-kit |access-date=22 April 2017}}</ref>


=== Step Study Groups ===
=== Step Study Groups ===
Held on a different night than the Open Share Groups, Step Study Groups help participants proceed through the 12 Steps and 8 Recovery Principles in greater detail. Unlike other twelve-step recovery programs that encourage participants to "work the steps" individually or with their sponsor, Celebrate Recovery participants work through the steps and principles as a group. These groups are gender-specific, but are not issue-specific. There are four Step Study Participant Guides that the groups work through, one at a time, over the course of 12-16 months. Each week, participants complete a lesson in the Step Study Participant Guides in advance of the group meeting, then meet together with 8-10 other participants to share answers and gain insight. As with Open Share Groups, these groups are facilitated by trained group leaders who maintain the Five Small Group Guidelines. Step Study Groups typically last two hours.{{cn|date=April 2017}}
Held on a different night than the Open Share Groups, Step Study Groups help participants proceed through the 12 Steps and 8 Recovery Principles in greater detail. Unlike other twelve-step recovery programs that encourage participants to "work the steps" individually or with their sponsor, Celebrate Recovery participants work through the steps and principles as a group. These groups are gender-specific, but are not issue-specific. There are four Step Study Participant Guides that the groups work through, one at a time, over the course of 12-16 months. Each week, participants complete a lesson in the Step Study Participant Guides in advance of the group meeting, then meet together with 8-10 other participants to share answers and gain insight. As with Open Share Groups, these groups are facilitated by trained group leaders who maintain the Five Small Group Guidelines. Step Study Groups typically last two hours.<ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrate Recovery Updated Curriculum Kit |date=2016 |website=Zondervan |url=http://www.zondervan.com/celebrate-recovery-updated-curriculum-kit |access-date=22 April 2017}}</ref>


== Program Features ==
== Program Features ==

Revision as of 20:04, 18 May 2017

Celebrate Recovery (CR) is an international, Christian twelve-step recovery program aimed at all "hurts, habits, and hang-ups", including but not exclusive to: high anxiety; co-dependency; compulsive behaviors; sex addiction; financial dysfunction; drug and alcohol addictions; and eating disorders.[1] Promotional materials assert that over 3.5 million people have participated in a Celebrate Recovery step study[2][3] in over 49,000 churches[4][2][5] Approximately two-thirds of these participants are in recovery for something other than drugs or alcohol.[6][better source needed] In addition to the 12 Steps, Celebrate Recovery utilizes eight Recovery Principles that are based on the Sermon on the Mount.[7] The name Celebrate Recovery is a registered trademark of John Baker,[8] and groups using this name may not use resources outside of the Bible and authorized Celebrate Recovery curriculum materials.[9]

History

John Baker was a an alcoholic and staff member of Saddleback Church who began healing through Alcoholics Anonymous. He wanted a specifically Christian addiction recovery group, so with the support of Rick Warren, Celebrate Recovery began as a ministry of Saddleback Church under Baker's leadership[10][11] in 1990.[12][13] John Baker continues to be the primary author of The Celebrate Recovery curriculum and materials.[11]

Meeting Types

Celebrate Recovery utilizes three different types of meetings. The Large Group and Open Share Groups are held on the same night. These groups are typically preceded by a meal time and are followed by a time for refreshments and connections.

Large Group

Large Group consists of a time of worship, announcements, the reading of the 12 Steps and/or 8 Recovery Principles, the presentation of either one of 25 lessons based on these steps/principles or the testimony of a Celebrate Recovery participant, a chip ceremony recognizing lengths of sobriety/victory over hurts, habits, and hang-ups through, and the reading of the complete version of Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity Prayer. Large Group typically lasts one hour.[14]

Open Share Groups

Immediately after Large Group, participants break out into open share groups. Each open share group is gender-specific and issue-specific.[citation needed] These groups are facilitated by trained group leaders who share and maintain the Five Small Group Guidelines[15][16] at each meeting.[9] Open Share Group participants are free to share about their victories and struggles in their particular area of recovery. Open Share Groups typically last one hour.[17]

Step Study Groups

Held on a different night than the Open Share Groups, Step Study Groups help participants proceed through the 12 Steps and 8 Recovery Principles in greater detail. Unlike other twelve-step recovery programs that encourage participants to "work the steps" individually or with their sponsor, Celebrate Recovery participants work through the steps and principles as a group. These groups are gender-specific, but are not issue-specific. There are four Step Study Participant Guides that the groups work through, one at a time, over the course of 12-16 months. Each week, participants complete a lesson in the Step Study Participant Guides in advance of the group meeting, then meet together with 8-10 other participants to share answers and gain insight. As with Open Share Groups, these groups are facilitated by trained group leaders who maintain the Five Small Group Guidelines. Step Study Groups typically last two hours.[18]

Program Features

While Celebrate Recovery functions in many ways like other traditional twelve-step recovery programs, there are program features that are specific to Celebrate Recovery. Some of these features include the Christ-centered nature of the program, the incorporation of the Eight Recovery Principles, the use of a specific set of Five Small Group Guidelines, openness to all "hurts, habits, and hang-ups", and gender-specific groups.

Celebrate Recovery insists that all Open Share and Step Study groups be gender-specific groups. This design is intended to ensure that the groups remain safe, that families can attend together and share openly, and improve group dynamics.[citation needed]

Eight Recovery Principles

Celebrate Recovery relies not only on the Twelve Steps, but also on the Eight Recovery Principles based on the Beatitudes. These Eight Recovery Principles are:

  1. Realize I’m not God; I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable.
  2. Earnestly believe that God exists, that I matter to Him, and that He has the power to help me recover.
  3. Consciously choose to commit all my life and will to Christ’s care and control.
  4. Openly examine and confess my faults to God, to myself and to someone I trust.
  5. Voluntarily submit to every change God wants to make in my life and humbly ask Him to remove my character defects.
  6. Evaluate all my relationships. Offer forgiveness to those who have hurt me and make amends for harm I’ve done to others, except when to do so would harm them or others.
  7. Reserve a daily time with God for self-examination, Bible reading, and prayer in order to know God and His will for my life and to gain the power to follow His will.
  8. Yield myself to God to be used to bring this good news to others, both by my example and my words.[19]

"Hurts, Habits, and Hangups"

The phrase "hurts, habits, and hang-ups" is used to describe the myriad of areas of recovery that Celebrate Recovery provides. Nearly everyone suffers from a hurt, habit or hang-up. This means that almost anyone can benefit from Celebrate Recovery.

Hurt

A "Hurt" is to experience physical pain caused by yourself or another; to feel emotional pain; undergo or experience difficulties or setbacks. A “Hurt” could be some life experience or experiences that damages a person's emotional health. It may have been an offense against the person, or something person couldn’t keep from happening in their life. These hurts can cripple a person's ability to deal with the world in a healthy way. Additionally, a hurt could be something that twists a person's view of self, God or others in a way that is unhealthy and unrealistic. These hurts can affect a person's relationships, employment and future. A few common hurts include abandonment, neglect, abuse as a child/adult by a spouse/employer/church, rape, rejection, or experiences in a dysfunctional family (divorce, alcohol & drug abuse, physical/emotional/sexual abuse, etc.).

Habit

A "Habit" is a regular repeated behavior pattern. This action or pattern of behavior is repeated so often that it becomes a person's typical behavior, although he or she may be unaware of it. Some habits are addictions, such as an addiction to a drug, food, gambling, sex, or some other stimuli that deadens ones feelings. “Habits” tend to be those unhealthy patterns that often start as a perceived “remedy” for some problem in a person's life, but end up turning into a chronic bad behavior or addiction. Habits are the repeat, default scripts of things that a person turns to during tough times or when a person is not sure how to cope with reality. Some common habits are abusive behavior, alcohol, bitterness, infidelity, anger, judging others or a critical spirit, drugs, gambling, eating disorders, gossip, isolation, self-harm, sex addiction, lying or dishonesty, spending problems, inability to forgive others, and workaholism.

Hang-up

A "Hang-up" is a psychological or emotional problem or fixation about something. Hang-ups often cause a persistent impediment in daily life. “Hang-ups” are those road blocks that keep a person from progressing further into God’s plan for their life. They are sometimes shaped by unhealthy or irrational views a person may have received as a child, or some unhealthy attitude a person may have adopted as a means of coping with life’s challenges. Some common hang-ups include anger, anxiety, worry, fear, codependency, envy or jealousy, Impatience, bullying, body image issues, bigotry, depression, need to control, manipulation, guilt, shame, perfectionism, procrastination, and various forms of mental illness.[citation needed]

Celebrate Recovery for Young People

Celebrate Recovery offers programs for the entire family. While adult participants attend the Large Group and Open Share Groups, children and adolescents attend programs designed specifically for their age groups.

The Landing

The Landing is similar 52-week program associated with Celebrate Recovery targeted for teenagers.[20]

Celebration Place

Celebration Place is a 52-week curriculum for children ages 5-13 that teaches the same concepts as the Celebrate Recovery large group adult teaching schedule. It is intended to break habits of family dysfunction and prevent the struggles that Celebrate Recovery is designed to help resolve.[21][22]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Lobdell, William (1999-04-24). "12 Steps, Christian Style; Lake Forest Ministry Has Helped Thousands, in a Concept That's Spread". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
  2. ^ a b "What is Celebrate Recovery?". Celebrate Recovery Jacksonville. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  3. ^ Cf. https://store.pastors.com/products/celebrate-recovery-updated-curriculum-kit. Note that this source doesn't specify participation beyond "discovered".
  4. ^ http://www.celebraterecovery.com/
  5. ^ "Celebrate Recovery Updated Curriculum Kit". Zondervan. 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Celebrate Recovery Celebrates 25th Birthday". ChristianDrugRehab.com. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  7. ^ Brown, Anthony E.; Whitney, Simon N.; Schneider, Max A.; Vega, Charles P. (June 2006). "Alcohol Recovery and Spirituality: Strangers, Friends, or Partners?". Southern Medical Journal. 99 (6): 654–657. doi:10.1097/01.smj.0000198271.72795.ab.
  8. ^ U.S. trademark record for "Celebrate Recovery"
  9. ^ a b "The Trademark Statement — DNA of CR". CelebrateRecovery.com. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  10. ^ Destiny Christian Church (27 October 2012). "Frequently asked Questions about Celebrate Recovery" (PDF). Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  11. ^ a b "About John Baker". CelebrateRecovery.com. 2016. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  12. ^ "Celebrate Recovery". Concord, CA: Christ Community Church of the Nazarene. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  13. ^ "Celebrate Recovery Celebrates 25th Birthday". ChristianDrugRehab.com. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  14. ^ "Celebrate Recovery Updated Curriculum Kit". Zondervan. 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  15. ^ "5 Guidelines for Celebrate Recovery Small Groups". Celebrate Recovery: New Orleans. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  16. ^ "Celebrate Recovery: Five Small Group Guidelines". Washington, DC: National Community Church. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  17. ^ "Celebrate Recovery Updated Curriculum Kit". Zondervan. 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  18. ^ "Celebrate Recovery Updated Curriculum Kit". Zondervan. 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  19. ^ Baker, John. "Celebrate Recovery: Eight Principles Based on the Beatitudes". Celebrate Recovery. Celebrate Recovery. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  20. ^ "the Landing". CelebrateRecovery.com. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  21. ^ "Celebration Place". celebraterecovery.com. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  22. ^ "Celebration Place". Celebrate Recovery Canada. Retrieved 22 April 2017.

References

  • Baker, John, and Richard Warren. Celebrate Recovery: Getting Right with God, Yourself, and Others: Participant Guide, 3. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1998. Print.
  • Baker, John, and Richard Warren. Celebrate Recovery: Growing in Christ While Helping Others: Participant Guide 4. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1998. Print.
  • Baker, John, and Richard Warren. Taking an Honest and Spiritual Inventory: Participant's Guide 2: A Recovery Program Based on Eight Principles from the Beatitudes. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1998. Print.
  • Baker, John. Celebrate Recovery Leader's Guide: A Recovery Program Based on Eight Principles from the Beatitudes. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 2005. Print.
  • Baker, John. Stepping out of Denial into God's Grace: Participant's Guide, 1. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1998. Print.
  • Baker, John. Your First Step to Celebrate Recovery: How God Can Heal Your Life. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2012. Print.
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