Samples of testimonials from Agencies, Benficiaries, and Volunteers.
Examples of testimonials from different groups; read more
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Beneficery 2012. “What the Sailaday Experience achieved for me in 4 days, 4 years of psychologists and psychiatrists failed to achieve" AC 2012
Agency Care Team. “The participants of sailaday ok are most likely to complete treatment.”
Quote from a Plymouth Residential. “Childhood abuse and neglect can induce a wide range of debilitating symptoms that can result in multiple and complex problems, impacting on all areas of life. The Sailaday OK session/s play an important role in the healing process and integrates well into our treatment plan. It gives a very concrete experience to draw on and from which to recognise resilience, existing strengths and the ability to make positive changes in their lives.”
Volunteer.
“When I contacted Sailaday I was up front about my motivations for volunteering and explained what I wanted to achieve. After so many rejections I wasn’t expecting to be welcomed aboard so warmly. And not just in the metaphorical sense, I’d also have a chance to get out on the boat and go sailing which was a bonus.
THE CHARITY SAILADAY OK
Manages a unique programme which meets the needs of their particpants.
In brief (quotes taken from Residential and Care Managers reports.)
Participants....
- develop and increase resilience and a sense of WellBeing.
- develop negotiation skills and an increase in self awareness.
- develop a positive and practical experience of interdependency
- come to understand the need for teamwork and co-operation with one another
- always return with a sense of achievement
- get a feeling of hope
- experiencing being part of a team and learn to resolve issues, and manage conflict
- have transformative experiences which enhances their development of the spiritual aspects of their recovery
- are allowed to simply “be”.
- describe having transpersonal experiences
- learnt new skills
- get a very concrete experience to draw on and from which to recognise resilience, existing strengths and the ability to make positive changes in their lives
- report having had a positive experience of themselves, increased confidence, self-awareness, improved communication skills, and a lot of gratitude, and having had a lot of fun.
- have a greatly increased sense of their own potential to have a productive and useful life when they leave residential treatment
- who have this unique experience dramatically increases their chances of remaining drug/alcohol free.
- Each sessions’ limited numbers encourage openness, and enhances the above changes due to being in smaller more intimate and sometimes challenging groups.
- This is a unique and excellent therapeutic intervention given the short and intense time period of the sessions the achievements and outcomes reported are remarkable.
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September 2013 quotes extracted from evaluation feedback forms
“Thank you it was such a great session, and to be honest I got more out of these sessions on the boat than the 6 months I did in treatment , thank you so much .” Ch 2013 |
September 2013 quotes extracted from evaluation sheets
“I believe that sailaday ok is such a great way for people with little or no hope to discover hope “This was a life changing experience for me, emotional, mentally and spiritually.” D
“This was someting I never thought I could do and I learnt so much and sitting on the front of the boat I could let go of so much” BC
“I can move on now ‘the war is over’ first time I have felt excited about the future, I never thought I had a future” F.
“Blind helming was such a great experience I learnt to trust my body and instincts could turn my head off” T
“I learnt so much about control and how life gets easier when I don’t try and control it and let go, helming the boat and Richard taught me this” C |
" Thank you. I Learned and experienced so much, letting my body take control, feel the force and trust all my senses,and i came to understand especially from the night sail expereince that if im patient and plan my steps one at time i will get my goal, night sailing and life in recovery seem so similar." Thanks RC july 2013
" I really came to understand from the sailaday experince that there is more than way to get to final destination." PP 2013 |
Dear Richard thank you for an amazing time and feel since leaving the boat I have entered into a new chapter in my life and thank you for helping me turn the page and can't thank you enough for the last couple of days
Many thanks james |
Female 35. London. History of alcoholism and years of multiple Substance abuse, addictions
Presenting very traumatised by childhood abuse and trauma and quite withdrawn, insular, anxious, and intelligent.
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