Featured Speaker -- Chris Shroeder

Mark Houston Recovery likes to have their residents get the value, beneift and experience of not just Mark and his amazing team but also knoweldgeable professionals in the industry who can share with they know and have leared in order to priovide a fresh prospective on recovery and addiction. As such we are honored and excited to have internationally recognized speaker Chris Shoreder who will be hosting a workshop November 1, 2008 at the Mark Houston Recovery center in Joe Hawk Hall.  

 

Chris is the Director of Media for C4 Recovery Solutions. In his role with C4, he has been tasked with hosting and developing the webcast show, The Afflicted and Affected, interviewing leaders in the addictive illness field and other interesting personalities revolving around the recovery world. Chris comes into contact with those who research and apply the latest methods of treatment and those who are a force in positive change in outcomes and funding both politically and in the media.

He has been a host of various TV and radio shows. He has also been active lecturing at recovery centers, correctional facilities and graduate schools over the past 17 years promoting the abstinence/12 step processes. His dedication and passion for helping those afflicted with alcoholism and drug addiction has taken him around the world and back to offer guidance and knowledge to those in need. Chris has worked in management of educational facilities since 1991 and is also  is a co-founder of the organization "A National Association of Recovered Alcoholics and Addicts". He currently lives with his wife Mary Beth in New Vernon NJ.

       

Chris’s experience with addiction and alcoholism treatment centers goes back tp 1991. He has been active in lecturing on recovery processes at many locations in the northeast. Currently he is a regular speaker at Little Hill/ Alina Lodge in Blairstown, NJ. Many of Chris’s talks have been available for download on sites like XA Tapes and Primary Purpose.Org. Few people are better at explaining the mechanics of the 12 step spiritual recovery process. Treatment so often consists of clinical processes that have developed over the years and there is not adequate presentation of the spiritual process that has been shown to offer lasting recovery. One issue is that many counselors are not truly experienced with the process themselves so have an ineffective way of presenting it. Chris talks at treatment centers, recovery centers, educational faculties and correctional facilities about the process in a way everyone can understand, and hopefully be motivated to get their own experience with it and then have that experience available when it would be appropriate to deliver it to those who need it.