Family Addiction Engagement Training (FAET)
Online course to help families navigate addiction challenges.
Understanding & Supporting a Loved One's Recovery with Family Addiction Engagement Training (FAET)
I’m Jeff Jones, MA, LPC, CACIII, with extensive experience in couples and family counseling. In this course, I guide you through understanding how addiction impacts family dynamics and provide practical strategies to foster personal growth and create a supportive environment for recovery. You’ll learn to improve communication, build empathy, and develop a positive framework for healing. My goal is to empower you and your loved ones to face addiction’s challenges together and move toward lasting recovery and growth. I’m excited to support you on this journey—let’s take the next step towards a healthier, more connected family!
What is Family Addiction Engagement Training (FAET)?
FAET empowers you to take your next best step.
FAET is a transformative 6-session online course designed to empower family members with the knowledge, tools, and strategies necessary to navigate the complex landscape of addiction within the family unit.
Through a carefully curated curriculum, participants will gain insights into how centuries-old cultural mixed messages about addiction still increase difficulties today for families to make good choices about navigating addiction in the family.
FAET guides families to shield themselves from the trickledown of cultural mixed messages, and make decisions that enable the health of the family, and the health of the individual in addiction to consider positive change.
Ending Stigma, Reclaiming Lives: FAET's Guide to Family-Centered Healing
Whether you’re a parent grappling with a child’s substance abuse, a spouse navigating the challenges of addiction within your marriage, a sibling witnessing a brother or sister’s struggle, an adult child watching a parent struggle, or a friend offering unwavering support, FAET is tailored so you’re empowered to meet your unique needs and circumstances.
Whether your whole family is unified in what needs to happen next, or there are multiple opinions (about the addiction) from different family members, you’ll have opportunities to consider your next best steps and coaching to help you make decisions – every step of the way.
Even if you think you have to do this alone, you’ll get clear on steps to move forward.
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, confused, or powerless in the face of addiction, this course is for you. If you don’t make change, its very likely, your loved one has no reason to change.
In the ideal world, families would start FAET as a strategy to prevent addiction from coming into their home, however cultural mixed messages about addiction can obscure the risks.
Through FAET, you’ll discover the continuum of practical tools: from “planting seeds” that inspire your loved one to be curious about their drug or alcohol use, to incremental invitations that put the onus a very direct family recovery message with incremental consequences that you help design.
Whether you’re just beginning to confront addiction’s impact on your family or seeking guidance on continuing your progress, FAET offers a supportive community and expert guidance every step of the way.
What to Expect After Taking This Course:
Gain a clear understanding of addiction and its impact on families. Coaching on all decisions necessary to navigate challenging situations with clarity, compassion, and boundaries.
Understand how the past creates the future until you change it. Learning the roots of addiction starts the process. Participating in group coaching enables you to learn and practice your best next steps.
Experience personal growth and self-discovery as you explore and challenge your beliefs, thinking, boundaries, and relationships within the context of addiction.
Learn effective communication techniques that foster genuine connection with your loved one, while maintaining strong boundaries with addiction.
As you learn to overcome obstacles and setbacks, you develop resilience in your nervous system. Emerge stronger and with more confidence in your ability to set boundaries with addiction, and continue to love your loved one
Join a supportive community of individuals who share similar experiences and gain access to valuable resources and support networks.
Family Addiction Engagement Training (FAET) Guide to Recovery
FAET's Mission
The mission of FAET is to empower families with addicted loved ones to find their best short and long-term solutions. It aims to provide practical strategies and support for families dealing with addiction.
First, the Family Addiction Engagement Training (FAET) is 6 Healing Arc Eduction sessions (DIY, online) combined with group and individual coaching. The intention is for families to incrementally make change in their actions and communication so they become a part of the solution.
Second, to coach families implementing skills learned in FAET, while introducing biochemical repair, amino coaching, and nutrition to the individual.
Third, facilitating ongoing structured family meetings so the individual can share their plan, progress over time, and invite questions and dialogue to rebuild trust.
What will I learn?
- Understand the ‘why and how’ past cultural patterns drive “best practices” solutions today.
- Unravel centuries of cultural mixed messages about addiction to find your best next step, and the next, and the next.
- Inspire curiosity in your loved one to question their substance use.
- Learn to overcome obstacles that hinder progress and lead to confusion.
Explore the origins of cultural mixed messages about addiction and their detrimental effects on families.
See how these mixed messages have trickled down into family dynamics and contribute to confusion.
Learn practical strategies to clarify mixed messages and motivate your loved one toward change.
Develop skills to manage obstacles of relational power and prevent relapse into old patterns.
Learn the 3 pathways to communicate and engage your loved one into a change process and eventually a healing journey.
Discover what to have ready when your loved one says, “yes” and explore topics to expand support for your entire family throughout the healing journey.
Don't let your family navigate addiction alone!
Secure your spot by joining the waitlist today and get priority access when enrollment reopens!
Common Questions
Learn more about Family Addiction Engagement Training (FAET)
What is FAET?
FAET stands for Family Addiction Engagement Training, a comprehensive guide to understanding and navigating addiction within the family unit.
Who is this for?
FAET is designed for families and individuals who are impacted by addiction and seeking guidance and support. It is also suitable for professionals working in addiction counseling, therapy, social work, and related fields.
How is FAET structured
FAET is structured into sessions, each focusing on specific aspects of addiction and family engagement. Sessions include video presentations, transcripts for navigation, additional resources, and fieldwork assignments for practical application.
What topics are covered in FAET?
Family Addiction Engagement Training (FAET) covers a wide range of topics related to addiction within the family, including exploring the centuries of cultural mixed messages surrounding addiction, understanding the history and roots of addiction, addiction dynamics, effective communication strategies, holistic approaches to recovery, and practical tools for supporting loved ones in their journey to sobriety.
