January 13, 2013

Getting Creative With Addiction Recovery

January 13, 2013

**Integrating Recovery, Picturing Self-Honesty, Front**

**Integrating Recovery, Picturing Consequences, Back**

Created and implemented innovative cognitive-behavioral-based curriculum for substance abuse treatment while employed by the Essex County Sheriff’s Department. Through drawing assignments, such as those depicted above and below, I was able to get participants to take stock honestly, communicate their feelings and assess consequences of their addictions in a jail setting without presenting themselves as appearing "weak" to other participants. I created the assignment to also circumvent the propensity of incarcerated participants to con for curried favors. The openness of the assignment fostered honesty. There was no right or wrong answer. Participants merely had to portray the cycle of addiction as they saw it.

Vincent Carriuolo

Interests: breathing, music, literature, golf, art, snowshoeing, writing, kayaking, meditation, skiing, walking/hiking, theatre (preferably drama), comedy clubs, concerts, art museums, poetry readings, working out and elephant polo at tiger tops, nepal (just seeing if you're still reading). some favorite films: the bicycle thief, dr. strangelove, 81/2, the diving bell and the butterfly, babette's feast, being there, city lights, everything is illuminated and life is beautiful. favorite reads: 100 years of solitude; the short stories of raymond carver; the divine comedy; the power of now; j. krishnamurti's the book of life; the short stories of eudora welty and ethan canin; the poetry of t.s. eliot; matsuo basho and robert frost; the odyssey; the secret language of symbols; a path with heart; zen flesh, zen bones; gift from the sea; siddhartha and anything by: j. krishnamurti; eckhart tolle; jack kornfield; anthony demello s.j.; thich nhat hahn; thomas merton; shunryu suzuki, : meister eckhart; emmett fox and ram dass. play blues harmonica. like color: cobalt blue. like flower: paper white narcissus. last read: one hundred years of solitude (again), quotes: just this. --anon. we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. --anais inn, a friend of bill w.

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