What to Expect from CCAR’s Advanced Academy

This advanced-level training takes place over four consecutive days in a retreat-like setting—either virtually or in person. The curriculum dives into the “next level” of CCAR’s Art and Science of Recovery Coaching framework, with a strong focus on active listening, powerful questioning, emotional intelligence, vulnerability, and managing your own “stuff” as a coach. Participants are also guided to explore compassion fatigue, cultural awareness, multiple pathways of recovery, and how to treat people as resources. By the end of the program, you will leave with renewed confidence, sharper skills, and a clearer vision of your role as a recovery coach leader.

What Recovery Coaches You Will Learn:

• Define recovery coach mastery

• Explore what it means to actively listen and why it is an essential coaching skill

• Learn how to practice active listening through mindfulness

• Understand what is meant by asking good questions and how to interview a recoveree to motivate and support their identified recovery pathway

• Demonstrate the art of crafting “good questions” that prompt meaningful conversations and promote connection

• Discover what is meant by “stuff” to acknowledge biases that can influence the coaching relationship

• Understand the power of emotional intelligence in the coaching relationship

• Identify when our “stuff” clouds our performance

• Apply the foundational principles of recovery coaching to real examples/scenarios

• Set individual professional development goals to improve one’s art of recovery coaching practice