Description
COURSE SUMMARY/OBJECTIVES
Clients working the twelve steps encounter different struggles when working each individual step. The goal of the 2nd Step is a basic understanding and acceptance of the concept of a higher power. This workbook seeks to help readers begin the process of exploring additional and often different viewpoints about the great unknown. It provides counselors the basic tools to carry out this task with the necessary components needed for change, a start on understanding personal emotions, and understanding how external solutions do not work for internal problems.
In addition, this workbook presents the 2nd Step doubts – common in recovery – the four parts of the 2nd Step and how they work together, and possible solutions in extreme cases of higher-power doubt.
GOALS:
• To increase knowledge about clinical aspects of the 2nd Step
• To increase knowledge about professional issues concerning the treatment of addiction
• To provide resources to help counselors assist clients work the 2nd Step
About the Instructor:
David Walton Earle, LPC combines his counseling skills with his twenty-plus-years of executive management experience into a powerful matrix called Business Coaching. Using this technique, Earle assist leaders to increase their leadership effectiveness through people skills. He is also a teacher, trainer, author, counselor, and alternative dispute professional.
Earle earned a Master’s of Science in Counseling from Texas A&M and has held executive management positions in various fields including industrial construction, private investment banking, and corporate trouble shooting. He is now the president of the Earle Company, an organization dedicated to change.
As an author:
Self-published six others books: What To Do While You Count To 10, Gilligan’s Notes, Simple Communications for Complicated People, and Love is Not Enough. In addition there are three workbooks entitled The Wisdom of the Twelve Steps a separate book for each of the first three steps. Earle also wrote a three-book self-help poetry trilogy: Professor of Pain, Iron Mask, and Red Roses ‘n Pinstripes.
Future work: Contents of a Small Boy’s Pocket has a target publishing of the 4th quarter of 2016.
Co-authored books on leadership: Leadership-Helping Others Succeed and Extreme Leadership and a coauthored joke book entitled, You Might Need a Therapist if… scheduled for publication in the 1st quarter of 2016.
Earle has been on the panel as a mediator and/or arbitrator for various organizations such as U.S. Federal Court-Middle District, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Financial Industry Regulator Authority (FINRA), and the Louisiana Supreme Court. He was on the faculty of the University of Phoenix for over 10 years.
His trademarked motto is My Life Ill Change When I Change™; he enjoys tennis and he lives in Baton Rouge with his wife, Penny, and their dog, Fletcher.