Next course starting November 2021
Six Steps for Not-Quite Alcoholics is a guided program to give you the skills, motivation and support to change your relationship with alcohol.
If you’re looking for a quick fix or a silver bullet, this is not for you, but if you’re prepared to invest some time working on yourself, it will show you a clear path to a life less reliant on alcohol.
The course is conducted over nine live online group seminars spread over four and a half months in a format designed to give you knowledge, inspiration and accountability to stick to your drinking goals.
The first seven sessions are 90 minutes each and run each weekend for seven weeks.
The final two sessions are follow-up check-ins – scheduled one month and three months after then end of the main course – to keep you on track.
Sessions will be recorded if you can’t make any of them live.
Course content
Introduction session
- What are the Six Steps?
- Where are they from and who are they for?
- Get to know your teacher
- Introduction to meditation
- Preview of each step
- Accountability tracking
- Buddy system
Step 1: Accept that life would be better, overall, with less alcohol
- Introduction
- To quit or to moderate?
- The benefits of Acceptance
- What success looks like for you
- Activity: Meditation
- Five stages of grief for alcohol
- Two modes of motivation
- Examining why you want to stop drinking
- Imagining what life without alcohol will be like
- Homework
Step 2: Believe in the wise version of you to steer you back on course
- Introduction
- Understanding the power of the wise version of you
- Group check-in
- Meditation
- Not drinking
- Challenges
- Activity: Meditation
- Ways to strengthen the wise part of you
- Diet
- Mental diet
- Social diet
- Learning to prioritise (Eisenhower grid)
- The four quadrants of staying sober
- Homework
STEP 3: Put the wise version of you in charge through meditation
- Introduction
- Meditation: The best way to empower the wise version of you
- Becoming less needy
- Group check-in
- Meditation
- Not drinking
- Challenges
- Three secrets to meditation success
- Activity: Meditation
- How meditation removes stress
- Homework
Step 4: Re-write your personal story so it’s headed somewhere you want to go
- Introduction
- How our story shapes our past, present and future
- Updating your storyline
- Group check-in
- Meditation
- Not drinking
- Challenges
- Guided meditation: Letting go
- Homework
STEP 5: Create a habit to keep the wise part of you in charge
- Introduction
- The power of habits
- Four Tendencies: Understanding your habit-building personality
- Going non-negotiable
- Building habits from the ground up
- Group check-in
- Meditation
- Not drinking
- Challenges
- Meditation
- Homework
STEP 6: Share your story, live the steps and inspire others
- Introduction
- How to turn a habit into an identity
- Maintaining consistency
- How to share what you’ve learned without annoying people!
- Group check-in
- Meditation
- Not drinking
- Challenges
- Meditation
- Homework
Follow-up session 1
- Group check-in
- Meditation
- Not drinking
- Challenges
- Meditation
Follow-up session 2
- Group check-in
- Meditation
- Not drinking
- Challenges
- Meditation
- On-going support
Session times
Participants are invited to join from all over the world. Listen below are the times for popular locations – please get it touch if you can't calculate the time in your location.
- London: 7-8.30pm (Saturdays)
- New York: 2-3.30pm (Saturdays)
- Los Angeles: 11-12.30pm (Saturdays)
- Sydney: 6-7.30am (Sundays)
Note that the below dates will be one day later in Australia.
- Intro Saturday 6 Nov
- Step 1 Saturday 13 Nov
- Step 2 Saturday 20 Nov
- Step 3 Saturday 27 Nov
- Step 4 Saturday 4 Dec
- Step 5 Saturday 11 Dec
- Step 6 Saturday 18 Dec
- Follow up 1 Saturday 15 Jan
- Follow up 2 Saturday 19 March
Participants must also be signed up for We Meditate To Quit Alcohol.
Don't miss out on this life-changing experience. The cost works out to only US$20 for each workshop.