Meetings and Workshops
This spring semester, Gamecock Recovery is holding a collection of weekly and monthly recovery meetings and social events.
Friends & Family Support understands that addiction affects the whole family. This weekly group meeting for students affected by a loved one's addiction provides education, resource navigation, and ongoing support needed to address substance use disorder in a healthy and constructive way.
Recovery Meditation is a weekly mindfulness meditation workshop facilitated by our Recovery Coordinator, Larkin. These workshops are designed to incorporate mindfulness practices and tools into recovery.
All Recovery meetings are based on the idea that there are great benefits to bringing people together from multiple recovery pathways. This meeting honors all pathways to recovery, acknowledging that each person’s path is unique and reflects their personal strengths. These meetings are an opportunity for social support that focuses on the hope and healing found in recovery and to connect with others who are initiating and maintaining a recovery lifestyle.
Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART Recovery) provides self-empowering, science-based mutual aid for abstaining from any substance or activity addiction. The SMART Recovery approach centers on helping individuals enhance and maintain motivation to abstain from addictive behaviors, cope with urges, manage thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and cultivate lifestyle balance.
“Introduction to SMART Recovery”
- Curious to learn more about what SMART Recovery is all about? You're not alone! Join us at a What Is SMART Recovery? workshop on Thursday, March 21 at 3pm in RHUU 303.
Happier Hour is a weekly student gathering for members, allies and prospective members to connect and share support. Snacks, tea and coffee provided. See below for this month's schedule.
- March 7 – Prep for Spring Break: : Join us as we prepare for spring break next week. We will have a list of fun things to do in Columbia along with some discussion about how to navigate spring break while in recovery.
- March 14 – No meeting due to Break: Enjoy!
- March 21 – Create Your Bucket List: Have you ever sat down and physically created a ‘bucket list’? If not, this is the perfect night for you! Together we will brainstorm and dream about experiences and goals to add to your list. If you have already started your own, let's add to it!
- March 28 – Meet and Greet: Never been to Gamecock Recovery before? Then this Happier Hour is for you! We will have an open hour to talk, get to know one another, and create new relationships.
Our monthly speaker series,
ARISE (Addiction & Recovery-Informed Seminar) returns this month! This series is designed to provide a platform for recovery voices and create a community forum where students are able to explore different dimensions and perspectives on addiction and recovery so as to enrich academic discovery and support their development as informed citizens.
Thinking about recovery and wanting to learn about options? In recovery and needing a check-in? Our recovery coordinator and trained recovery coach, Larkin can help you develop an action plan that works with your academic and social goals on campus.
On Path Recovery Coaching hours, held every Monday and Tuesday between 3-5pm, is one-on-one time to brainstorm, problem-solve, and build your recovery toolbox. Connect, chat, and check-in to stay on path with your recovery.
Ready to make an appointment? Select a day and time that works with your schedule through the scheduling link found below. Please be sure to include your full name and email address when you sign up.
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When in doubt or need, reach out to Gamecock Recovery ANYTIME in STROM 301B or at 803-777-5781 and gamecockrecovery@sc.edu
If you’re interested in helping to plan Gamecock Recovery events, email gamecockrecovery@sc.edu. We want to hear what you have to say!
