As some of you will know, I took a break this month from posting on Recovery Voices so I could focus on the book I’m writing about recovery in North Wales. In fact, I have taken a break from that activity recently as earlier in the month I remembered that North Wales Recovery Communities (NWRC), one of the amazing recovery communities we highlight on this website, will be celebrating its 10th birthday in May. You can see on Facebook how NWRC will be celebrating with a series of events that month, starting with an Open Day on Friday, 2nd May.
I thought I should contribute to the NWRC Anniversary celebrations by doing something on our Recovery Voices website and in other ways. I talked with Sarah Flynn, Chair of the NWRC Trustees, and my RV colleague Wulf Livingston and they thought it a good idea. However, what started out as a small idea has grown and resulted in a lot more work than originally envisaged. Such is life! The guys at NWRC really deserve this celebration. So here is the plan.
I will add a blog post focused on NWRC in some way or other on every day of May. These posts will take various forms, but will all be the equivalent of one page of text on Apple pages, accompanied by a photo (sometimes two) and links. The reason I’m limiting posts to one page is that I want to produce a pdf document of all the posts, so there is an offline-record of the celebratory blog posts. The document will look better with one page posts.
Most of the posts will be one page summaries of various chapters from the book, including summaries of Recovery Stories chapters, I have written. Wulf and Sarah will also be contributing a chapter (or two), and Sarah is organising for various NWRC members to contribute their Stories in a short form. There will also be a few chapters on issues central to what NWRC do, for example on recovery, facilitating connection, and healing trauma. So that’s what I’ll be doing the rest of the week, getting this content together, checking in with contributors, and uploading posts.
Now for a favour. We’d really like as many people as possible to see these celebratory posts. So could you please share this content with friends, work colleagues and other recovery communities, asking them to do the same. We’d be very grateful.
Thank you for you reading this post and for considering our request. Wishing you the very best from sunny Perth in Western Australia. I’ll be back on Thursday, 1st of May.
PS. As part of the Celebration, I will be giving a two-hour Zoom presentation to NWRC members at Penrhyn House (and all others who attend) on Friday, 30 May at 11.30 British time (18.30 Perth time). More details later.