Recovery Coaching Scotland

06/07/2026

💗 Save the date - Wed 29th July 💗
Monthly Dumfries Recovery Cafe ☕️
We are delighted to announce Nicky Gilmour will be our speaker 🔈💗

04/07/2026

28/06/2026

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🌟 FREE TRAINING OPPORTUNITY – JULY 2026 🌟

Recovery Coaching Scotland is delighted to be offering our Recovery Coaching & Personal Development Programme this July.

This free training is ideal for people with lived experience who are looking to strengthen their own recovery, develop new skills, support others, or explore future volunteering, peer support, and employment opportunities.

🗓 Training Dates

• 16th July – 1:30pm to 5:00pm
• 17th July – 10:00am to 4:00pm
• 23rd July – 10:00am to 4:00pm
• 24th July – 10:00am to 4:00pm
• 30th July – 10:00am to 4:00pm
• 31st July – 10:00am to 4:00pm

📍 Location: Mountainhall Treatment Centre, Dumfries

💡 A pathway for recovery from drugs and alcohol – building your toolkit for a thriving future.

Throughout the programme, participants will explore:

✅ Introduction to Recovery Coaching
✅ Our Learning Journeys
✅ The Cycle of Change
✅ Recovery Capital
✅ Learning Styles
✅ Resilience & Personal Values
✅ Positive Self-Talk
✅ Emotional Intelligence
✅ Calming & Clearing Techniques
✅ Trust, Confidentiality & Boundaries
✅ Active Listening & Powerful Questions
✅ Trauma & Recovery

This programme combines personal development, recovery education, and practical coaching skills in a safe, supportive, lived-experience-led environment.

Whether you’re looking to strengthen your own recovery, build confidence, support others, or take your next steps into volunteering, training, or employment, this course provides a strong foundation for personal growth and positive change.

To express an interest or find out more, get in touch with Recovery Coaching Scotland.

Follow Recovery Coaching Scotland for updates on future training opportunities, recovery events, and community activities.

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25/06/2026

23/06/2026

🌟 FREE TRAINING OPPORTUNITY – JULY 2026 🌟

Recovery Coaching Scotland is delighted to be offering our Recovery Coaching & Personal Development Programme this July.

This free training is ideal for people with lived experience who are looking to strengthen their own recovery, develop new skills, support others, or explore future volunteering, peer support, and employment opportunities.

🗓 Training Dates

• 16th July – 1:30pm to 5:00pm
• 17th July – 10:00am to 4:00pm
• 23rd July – 10:00am to 4:00pm
• 24th July – 10:00am to 4:00pm
• 30th July – 10:00am to 4:00pm
• 31st July – 10:00am to 4:00pm

📍 Location: Mountainhall Treatment Centre, Dumfries

💡 A pathway for recovery from drugs and alcohol – building your toolkit for a thriving future.

Throughout the programme, participants will explore:

✅ Introduction to Recovery Coaching
✅ Our Learning Journeys
✅ The Cycle of Change
✅ Recovery Capital
✅ Learning Styles
✅ Resilience & Personal Values
✅ Positive Self-Talk
✅ Emotional Intelligence
✅ Calming & Clearing Techniques
✅ Trust, Confidentiality & Boundaries
✅ Active Listening & Powerful Questions
✅ Trauma & Recovery

This programme combines personal development, recovery education, and practical coaching skills in a safe, supportive, lived-experience-led environment.

Whether you’re looking to strengthen your own recovery, build confidence, support others, or take your next steps into volunteering, training, or employment, this course provides a strong foundation for personal growth and positive change.

To express an interest or find out more, get in touch with Recovery Coaching Scotland.

Follow Recovery Coaching Scotland for updates on future training opportunities, recovery events, and community activities.

South West Recovery Cafe WithYou in Dumfries and Galloway ADP Dumfries and Galloway Freed Up Alcohol and Drugs Support South West Scotland

23/06/2026

Great to see so many partners, community organisations, and people with lived and living experience coming together at the Healing Our Community event in Stranraer.

Events like this highlight the importance of connection, collaboration, and community-led approaches to supporting recovery and wellbeing. Thank you to everyone involved in creating a space for meaningful conversations, shared learning, and hope for the future.

We’re proud to be part of these discussions and look forward to continuing to work alongside communities and partners across Dumfries & Galloway.

19/06/2026

We’re absolutely delighted to be launching our new work Scottish Prison Service within HMP & YOI Polmont, supporting young people in custody through our Launchpad and Harm Reduction programmes.

Delivered by our fantastic lived experience team, led by Linda Bendle This is an exciting opportunity to engage with young people at a crucial point in their lives, helping them build confidence, develop practical recovery and wellbeing skills, explore future possibilities, and reduce the harms associated with substance use and other risk-taking behaviours. Through lived experience, peer-led learning, coaching approaches, and meaningful conversations, we hope to support participants to identify their strengths and take positive steps towards the future they want.

We’re also pleased that, through a separate funding stream, we will be able to extend support to women within Polmont, ensuring more people can access tailored support, connection, and opportunities for personal growth.

As an organisation founded on lived experience, we know the difference that the right support, at the right time, can make. We’re incredibly grateful for the opportunity to bring our approach into Polmont and work alongside residents, prison staff, and partner organisations.

A huge thank you to everyone involved in making this possible. We can’t wait to get started and see where this journey leads.

19/06/2026

19/06/2026

It was a privilege to present BIRCHWOOD: Creative Pathways to Wellbeing, Connection and Recovery at the recent Healing Arts event hosted by Steph McKenzie and NHS Borders Health Improvement.

The event brought together practitioners, community organisations and partners to explore the growing evidence demonstrating how creativity, connection and access to the arts contribute to improved health and wellbeing.

During the session, I shared how the Birchwood programme, delivered by Borders in Recovery and Recovery Coaching Scotland, supports people through a holistic approach that combines creativity, nature, physical wellbeing and peer support.

At its heart, Birchwood is about creating opportunities for people to connect with themselves, others and their communities. Through activities that build confidence, resilience and belonging, we see people strengthen their wellbeing, develop new interests and relationships, and discover pathways towards positive change.

In rural communities particularly, accessible, community-led opportunities are essential. When local people shape local solutions, we create safe spaces that foster connection, reduce isolation and support recovery and wellbeing in ways that traditional services alone cannot achieve.

The conversations throughout the day reinforced the vital role that community organisations play alongside public services. Investing in prevention, creativity and community connection is not simply good practice—it is an investment in healthier, more resilient communities.

Thank you to NHS Borders for creating the opportunity to share learning, build partnerships and explore how we can continue working together to improve health and wellbeing across the Scottish Borders.