Saturday, Sept 28th, 2024 – 10am-2pm
This annual event gathers people from the many paths of recovery to celebrate our common goal of freedom from addiction, to increase awareness of addiction and recovery, and to inspire collaboration and community.
For this years event, we present 4 speakers covering recovery topics such as:
- Finding redemption through recovery
- Recovery through music, performance, and service
- Secular sobriety, and sobriety for women
- Active lifestyle sober communities
- The need for sober spaces at public music events
- Integrated recovery techniques to customize paths to recovery
- And more
- Free admission
- Optional $10 spaghetti lunch
- Door prizes and silent auction
- And more
We’ll also have representatives for various recovery groups and organizations available to provide literature and answer questions. We pride ourselves on being one of the few events where different recovery groups come together under one roof.
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twitch.tv/manypathsonedestinationMatt Butler
Matt Butler is a songwriter, poet and storyteller as well as the founder of Art That Serves, an organization dedicated to bringing the arts to the incarcerated. His solo show Reckless Son tells the story of how his concert at the Albany County Jail led to over 100 performances in jails and prisons across the country. Along with correctional facilities, he speaks and performs his solo show Reckless Son at universities, high schools, and retreat centers. Matt’s been featured on NPR Morning Edition, The Blue Grass Situation, and PBS with SPIN saying “Butler is doing something special for the American arts”.
more about Matt ButlerAndy Short
Andy Short is a Senior Regional Manager at The Phoenix-an international sober active community. Through hundreds of weekly sober events and activities, we’re creating safe spaces for individuals to connect, build friendships, find support, and have fun. Andy has scaled initiatives nationally and beyond including engagement with the LGBTQIA+ communities, volunteer leadership & development, and co-leads our new volunteer impact model project. Previously he led an innovative arts and recovery nonprofit for which he was recognized by the Massachusetts Legislature & Mass Nonprofit Network. Andy will also discuss their initiative with 1 Million Strong, creating safe spaces at music events for fans in recovery.
more about The PhoenixMary Beth O’Connor
Mary Beth is a board member for LifeRing Secular Recovery and She Recovers Foundation and advocate for multiple paths to recovery. Mary Beth’s award-winning memoir, From Junkie to Judge: One Woman’s Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction chronicles her wild ride through the rock-bottom underbelly of addiction to the hallowed halls of justice where she rose to the pinnacle of success as a federal judge. Professionally, 6 years into recovery, Mary Beth attended Berkeley Law. She worked at a large firm in Silicon Valley, then litigated class actions for the federal government. In 2014, Mary Beth was appointed a federal Administrative Law Judge, a position from which she retired in 2020.
more about Mary Beth O’ConnorMarty Lajoie
Marty Lajoie is the Chief Psychologist at Duffy’s Napa Valley Rehab, and founder of Holistic Recovery. Marty will discuss his journey from San Francisco DJ & party promoter to finding a foundation in the 12 steps, and his development of a program in which integrative health meets evidence-based practices, allowing individuals to customize their recovery path.
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Agenda
9:30-10am | Coffee |
10:00-10:20 | Welcome: Intro |
10:20-10:50 | Mary Beth O’Connor |
10:50-11:00 | Break, Door Prizes |
11:00-11:25 | Marty Lajoie |
11:30-11:55 | Andy Short |
11:55-12:00pm | Door Prizes |
12:00-12:50pm | Lunch |
12:50-1:00 | Door Prizes |
1:00-2:00 | Matt Butler |
2:00-2:15 | Thank You/Silent Auction Winners |
Sponsors and Featured Organizations
Family & Children Services
Since 1948, FCS, a division of Caminar, has been empowering individuals and families to move toward greater wellness, resilience, and independence. We are here for the entire community and dedicated to offering safe, inclusive, and affirming programs for all.
Visit websiteChange Recovery
At Change Recovery, we assist men suffering from alcohol and drug addiction to gain the tools they need to achieve long term sobriety. We are dedicated to offering a safe environment to support the change happening in lives of men in recovery.
Visit websiteSanta Clara County Re-entry Services
Please join us in supporting the efforts of those recovering from incarceration to change their lives and share their talents with our community.
The Camp Recovery Center -Scotts Valley
If you or a loved one is need of comprehensive care in order to win the war against addiction, look no further than The Camp Recovery Center. We provide an environment that is designed to foster each individual’s opportunity for transformation of the mind, body, and spirit, allowing you to rediscover the freedom of a life without drugs or alcohol.
Visit websiteMomentum for Health
Momentum for Health exists to help individuals achieve mental and emotional health, discover and reach their potential, and fully participate in life. Our organization focuses on a seamless delivery of comprehensive behavioral health services that are accessible, integrated, effective and engaging, resulting in the best treatment possible..
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Al-Anon
Al-Anon is a mutual support group of peers who share their experience in applying the Al-Anon principles to problems related to the effects of a problem drinker in their lives. It is not group therapy and is not led by a counselor or therapist. This support network complements and supports professional treatment.
Visit websiteRecovery Cafe
Recovery Cafe San Jose is a healing community for those traumatized by addiction, homelessness, and mental health challenges, and founded on the belief that every human being is precious, worthy of love and deserving of the opportunities to fulfill his or her potential. In this loving community people who cannot afford long-term recovery services come to belong, heal and know themselves as loved. Visit website
The Phoenix
At The Phoenix, we’re fueling a movement that builds on the power of community and belonging to change how society approaches addiction and recovery. Through hundreds of weekly sober events and activities, we’re creating safe spaces for all individuals to connect, build friendships, find support, and have fun.
Visit website1 Million Strong
Stand Together Music and nonprofit The Phoenix have launched a new initiative in an effort to create safe spaces at music events for fans in addiction recovery. The initiative, called One Million Strong (1MS), aims to eventually help 1 million people access sober spaces at music events by engaging communities across the country, with the help of musicians, venues, festivals and streaming and ticketing platforms.
Visit websiteDuffy’s Napa Valley Treatment
Duffy’s Napa Valley Rehab is a leading drug & alcohol addiction rehab facility in California. Duffy’s has been providing detox and residential drug & alcohol addiction treatment & rehab services for adults since 1967.
Visit websiteAlano Club of San Jose
Here, newcomers to recovery find the information and guidance they need, while experienced members offer encouragement and fellowship. Our doors are open for 12-step meetings and a wide range of recovery-related activities.
View websiteeNew Life Recovery Centers
New Life Recovery Centers, Inc. strives to provide our clients with the very best services available. We value our employees as our greatest asset, while collectively and continuously working to adopt and implement the latest and most effective clinical and science-based social treatments.
Visit websiteAlcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of people who come together to solve their drinking problem. It doesn’t cost anything to attend A.A. meetings. There are no age or education requirements to participate. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about their drinking problem.
Visit websiteNarcotics Anonymous
Narcotics Anonymous is a global, community-based organization with a multilingual and multicultural membership. NA was founded in 1953, and members hold more than 72,000 meetings weekly in 143 countries today.
Visit websiteRecovery Dharma
We are a peer-led movement and community that is unified by our trust in the potential of each of us to recover and find freedom from the suffering of addiction. We believe that recovery means empowerment, and we support each other as partners walking the path of recovery together.
Visit websiteFamily Giving Tree
The Family Giving Tree envisions a world where Giving brings joy, offers hope and opens possibilities. By inspiring community kindness, generosity, and volunteerism, The Family Giving Tree fulfills exact holiday wishes and provides backpacks filled with STEAM-based school supplies to those in need.
Visit websiteLifeRing Secular Recovery
LifeRing Secular Recovery is an organization of people who share practical experiences and sobriety support. LifeRing’s emphasis on the positive, practical present-day can turn anger and despair into hope and resolve.
Visit websiteSMART Recovery
Self-Management And Recovery Training (SMART) is a global community of mutual-support groups. At meetings, participants help one another resolve problems with any addiction (to drugs or alcohol or to activities such as gambling or over-eating).
Visit websiteBilly DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center
The Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center provides community, leadership, advocacy, services and support to the Silicon Valley’s LGBTQ People and their Allies. We strive to be the community’s premier resource hub and a recognized leader in promoting health, strength, diversity and inclusiveness.
Visit websiteOvereaters Anonymous
Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a community of people who support each other in order to recover from compulsive eating and food behaviors. We welcome everyone who feels they have a problem with food.
Visit websiteStar Fellowship
Founded in 1995, Star Fellowship has been dedicated to fostering a community that thrives on joy and mutual support. Our mission is to create a space where individuals can connect, grow, and celebrate life together.
View websiteMarijuana Anonymous
Marijuana Anonymous is a free peer-support program focused entirely on our shared problem with marijuana or cannabis addiction. Marijuana Anonymous uses the basic 12 Steps, founded by Alcoholics Anonymous, because it has been proven that the 12-Step recovery program works.
Visit websiteCrystal Meth Anonymous
Crystal Meth Anonymous is a non-profit 12-step fellowship for those in recovery from addiction to crystal meth. There are no dues or fees for membership. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using drugs.
Visit websiteRussian-speaking Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) of USA & Canada
Russian-speaking Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) of USA & Canada is a fellowship of people who come together to solve their drinking problem. There are no age or education requirements to participate. It doesn’t cost anything. Our primary purpose is to help alcoholics to achieve sobriety.
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