ITC Group Leader Training

Gain a deeper proficiency in explaining ITC concepts to others and join our ITC Learning Community in this 12-hour, 4-day training. 

In this training, you will learn how to lead ITC-based support and skills groups (complete group curriculum provided). Full completion of the training will certify you as an ITC Group Leader, and will give you access to our ITC Learning Community.  

Our Learning Community is made up of professionals and family members who are changing the conversation around addiction. They are leading groups, bringing the ITC into their recovery work, and advocating locally for more compassionate approaches to substance use (among many other things!).

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Please click here to request sliding scale pricing for this event. 

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ITC Certification gives you access to the following:

• Twice-monthly support meetings with FFC trainers and other members of the ITC Community.

• Access to our ITC Community Facebook group, where we regularly share resources and hold discussions about the Invitation to Change.

• Connection to other community members for collaboration, support, and continued learning.

• Access to our ever-growing resource library, including flyers, presentations, information sheets, and research articles.

• Use of our group leader materials, including a complete, 15-session curriculum for leading ITC-based groups.

• The ability to share information about your ITC-based group in our Community Groups Directory.

Those who complete our Group Leader training will receive a complete, 15-session curriculum that anyone can use to lead a community group in the Invitation to Change Approach. 

• Our sample curriculum can be used as is, or adapted to your needs. It has built-in flexibility for you to adjust the length, frequency, and number of sessions, and you can combine it with other approaches (i.e. SMART Recovery) or add your own spin.

• Each topic-focused session includes a sample meeting agenda, an introductory reading on an ITC topic, and a worksheet or group exercise.

• We also offer access to our resource library, which includes sample group rules, meditations, flyers, and other useful materials for starting and running community groups.

The Invitation to Change Approach is grounded in compassion, connection, and the understanding that families can have a powerful helping impact on those struggling to change. The ITC Approach draws on evidence-based practices also found in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and the Community Reinforcement and Family Training approach (CRAFT), as well as decades of clinical experience working with families and loved ones.

Built on the three pillars of Understanding, Awareness, and Action, the ITC first illuminates new perspectives on substance use and the process of change; next, it creates a foundation of self-awareness and willingness to engage with emotional pain. Finally, it emphasizes action, teaching communication and behavior skills to promote and support new behaviors in a person struggling with substance use.

The ITC was created with the idea of a waterfall in mind: the evidence-based ideas and strategies you learn will flow from you, to the families you work with, to the loved ones they are desperate to help. Families, clinicians, and those struggling can all take these ideas and methods and put them to use with practice, patience, and self-compassion.

Please note, this program does not qualify for CE Credit.