Getting to Recovery Philosophy (issue 1)

Issue 1 of Recovery News (later named On Our Way: Recovery News) shows how we got to a recovery philosophy. In order to develop a  common understanding of the “recovery” philosophy; we held a 2 day workshop in 2007 for all of  our staff. The feedback from this 2 day workshop helped us develop the ‘next steps’ in implementing this philosophy—which includes hosting this conference. On Thursday, May 15th, 2008 many of you joined us for the “Celebrating Recovery Together” full day conference. But before we get too ahead of ourselves, some of you may be wondering: how did we get to this recovery philosophy? ……