Narconon Communication Skills

Communication Skills Learned at Narconon & Addiction Recovery

An integral part of the Narconon alcohol and drug addiction recovery program is a series of Life Skills courses that develop specific skills as a tool for addiction recovery and general life improvement.

Communication and relationship with family, friends and the wider community is essential to well being. We often measure our happiness in terms of how well we are able to communicate with, and relate to other people who are important to us.

Failures of communication, when we feel negated, unheard,
ridiculed or misunderstood account for much emotional stress

Failures to Communicate and Emotional Stress

Failures of communication, when we feel negated, unheard, ridiculed or misunderstood account for much emotional stress and misery in the world. It is not always possible to make others see the light of our reasoning; sometimes it is us who are in the wrong. The more skilled in communication we are the better will be our lifestyle and the outcomes of any negotiations in which we are involved. People who have confidence in themselves and have an optimistic approach to life tend to be better communicators than those who use drugs and complain about betrayals, loss and pain.

The Importance of Communication

The importance of communication as a key to an effective lifestyle is underlined by Clark Carr, a former Narconon treatment center director for ten years and now President of Narconon International. In criticizing drug treatment options that consider drug addiction to be an incurable disease and maintenance drugs to be a proper resolution of the problem, Clark Carr points out how this philosophy undermines the inherent power of the addict, if enabled, to take back power and control in their life.

Carr says that although there is a health aspect to drug abuse and addiction, it is more a social and community problem. Most profoundly, personal addiction is a manifestation of insufficient life skills.

Communication and Mental Distress and Disorder

Over forty years of successful drug rehabilitation delivery by Narconon demonstrates that addicts can fully recover from drug addiction and related mental disorders provided that they remain drug-free and enhance their social and communication skills. At one level all mental distress and disorder can be seen as the result of a failure by the individual to effectively communicate and achieve status and social recognition from a significant other.

Drug Use as a Substitute

Relationship with others is so crucial to our survival that denied the means of normal relationship we will inventively seek out other ways of relating to the world so as to provide us with satisfaction. Many people feel frustrated, thwarted, beaten down in their attempts to seek reward and pleasure in life. Drug use provides a substitute - the high that we are failing to achieve in our everyday life.

Learning Basic Communication Skills - Book 1

Basic communication skills with the Narconon program come at the beginning of the courses, after drug withdrawal is completed. When we are able to use clear and honest communication, it is a tool that can help us resolve lingering issues from our past, and assist in making our future more productive, our relationships more genuine.

With the Narconon program - the basic communication skills course enables people to communicate more effectively, feel self-confident when confronting others, maintain the purpose and direction of intended communication when dealing with other people. Clarifying the ways in which we communicate leads to less misunderstanding, that might bring hurt and pain. It helps us to clarify our own sense of purpose and intention when we focus on using better ways of communicating.

At Narconon Trois-Rivieres drug addicts are encouraged to become more outgoing and extroverted when using the communication course. Addiction tends to reinforce feelings of isolation and separation from others - an introverted approach to life that fosters anxiety, depression and possible suicidal thoughts.

The Narconon Communication & Perception Course - Book 4

Later in the program Narconon, students are introduced to Book 4 - communication and perception course. This part of the program enables students to put their improved communication skills to good use – to confront, with confidence, the attitudes in life that are causing failure and unhappiness. Book 4 teaches students communication, confrontation and good controle as agents for positive change, using precise and practical methods.

To Overcome Past Issues Is Key for Recovery

People who have faced and overcome the knots and tangles in their lives, who are content and happy, have no desire to take drugs - have no need to use. People with issues from the past, anxiety, depression tend to bring all of this baggage into present relationships and so entangle and confuse the present and the past.

Communication Skills and Narconon

The theme of communication runs through all of the Narconon courses. Better communication is the key factor in helping drug addicts to get better.

Narconon's comprehensive style brings drug addicts and natural drug-free treatments together to allow permanent recovery.

The communication courses in the Narconon program open the door for addicts to begin the process of drug recovery. The students will, upon graduation, be able to return to the community confident, drug-free and healthy.

The Narconon program is based on the secularised work of author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard.

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