On the panel were:
Ronnie Purslow – Ronnie is a therapist who shared part of his journey with us earlier in the day. Noreen Oliver – Noreen has received many plaudits for the BAC O’Connor centre in Burton, Staffordshire. She is also a founder member of the UK Recovery Group. Mark Gilman – Regional Manager NTA. As well as being the North West Supremo Mark had been one of the standard bearers for pushing the recovery agenda forward. Byron Katie – Creator of the work, Katie brings a worldwide perspective to the debate. Nick Mercer – our MC for the Road to Recovery day, Nick contributes a vast history of experience to the debate along with humour and insight.

You can see Byron Katie’s exclusive presentation of The Work for Inexcess here.

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With a room full of drug workers, therapists and service users Byron Katie delivers “the Work” and challenges some of the preconceptions of how people work and relate to each other.

This first session deals with how the relationships between drug workers works (or doesn’t) and how an “open minded” approach will uncover some surprising outcomes. With the help of Jacquie Johnston Lynch from Sharp and “the four questions”, Byron Katie explores the nature of those relationships and what is true about the way we relate to each other.

Described by Time Magazine as “A spiritual innovator for the new millennium,” and by the Times as having “laser like tough love” that “burns away all illusion,” Byron Katie’s presentation is fascinating for all people who are finding the work place challenging and who are unsure about the changing landscape in the treatment/recovery world.

Part 2 will follow next week, and stay tuned for Byron Katie’s exclusive, in depth, one to one interview with George.

You can find out more about Byron Katie here www.thework.com

All the presentations from the morning session can be seen in full here.

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We briefly see the rehearsal day and what the expectations of the event were with comments from the production team and from Nick Mercer the MC for the day.
There’s a real buzz about the venue as people arrive and we see some of the action on stage coupled with immediate reaction from the delegates about the morning’s presentations and the much anticipated appearance of Byron Katie.

A sense of what many of the delegates thought was probably summed up by Damien Prescott from the Wirral Drug Service who came out of the afternoon session saying, “I’m the one that needs to change. It’s not them – it’s me.”

Whether individuals need to change or not it seems that change is definitely on the way. So see what the Road to Recovery event made of it all.

All the presentations from the morning session can be seen in full here.

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Each individual presentation will be available, in full, during the coming weeks, along with the rest of our coverage from 2010 Road to Recovery, Merseyside, including more highlights, Points of View, Byron Katie, Inexcess Question Time and our Making of Documentary.

We would love to hear your feed back on all aspects of the Road to Recovery event and our coverage, so drop us a line:

We are also want to hear what you are going to do for the Year of Recovery, what would like to change or improve over the next year that would make a difference to your life, or others. You can leave a 2010 pledge here.