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- Jun, 1993 Issue #22 |
FAMILY INTENSIVES
Steve Cawdrey
Spring Creek in Montana
406-827-4344
by: Lon Woodbury
After a year or so of sabbatical,
Steve Cawdrey is back working with families and adolescents.
Steve was the founder and director of Spring Creek Community
School in Montana for a number of years. Despite
several successes, Steve felt something was not quite right,
and took some time to reflect, study, journal write, and just
come to terms with what his calling should be.
He took some college classes
at the University of Montana as part of his sabbatical,
but most of his effort was to work with, and take some Intensives
from Anne Wilson Schaef. He was most impressed with
her concept of Living Process Systems, as detailed in her
book BEYOND THERAPY/BEYOND SCIENCE, (Reviewed by Steve
in Woodbury Reports Issue #20, Feb.
1993) and her concept that society is based on addictive
systems, and will not improve until we can find a way to live
the Living Process Systems and recovery.
Taking his new insights and applying
them to his work at Spring Creek Community School, Steve felt
the reason things didn't seem quite right was because he ignored
underlying addictive assumptions. He is now ready to go back
to actively working with children and their families using
Family Wilderness/Creativity Intensives as a vehicle,
with the first one coming up in August (See the Advertisement
in this issue). He hopes to accomplish two things: Help families
start the healing process by coming to Spring Creek for an
Intensive, and keep the cost to middle-income families down
to affordable levels by helping coordinate the follow-up process
with local resources back home.
He insists his work is
not therapy. "The purpose is to provide educational
and experiential learning of Living Process Systems and community,
while learning to confront the addictive process".
I and a lot of other professionals
will be closely watching how well this expanded understanding
of the Twelve-step process will work.
Copyright
© 1993, Woodbury Reports, Inc. (This article may be reproduced
without prior approval if the copyright notice and proper
publication and author attribution accompanies the copy.)
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