SHIFT New Zealand

Sexual Health Initiative For Troubled New Zealand (SHIFT NZ)
introduces a business opportunity with the
Living and Loving Freely programme for the treatment of
problematic sexuality, addiction and abuse.

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The growing disorder of problem sexuality, addiction and abuse in New Zealand is complex and pervasive, and requires specific and effective treatment by therapists trained in this field. To meet this accelerating demand, we’re pleased to announce:

New Zealand’s First Community-Based Treatment Programme For The Disorder Of Sexual Addiction

There has never been a more urgent time in the history of human sexuality in New Zealand for community-based treatment programmes that confronts the disorder of sexual addiction. Such a therapeutic response is long overdue when considering the damaging effects to individuals and families of this silent phenomenon. Sexual addiction is on a continuum that includes: Problem Sexuality, Addiction and Abuse.

David Moore
STEPS Founder, Counsellor and Author
Living and Loving Freely Programme

For over twenty five years David Moore has worked with the crisis of problem sexuality, addiction and abuse.

Professionals interested in a SHIFT New Zealand business opportunity include:

Counsellors

Therapists

Health Professionals

Addiction Practitioners

Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centres

The Review Forums
Living and Loving Freely Programme Practitioner
WISE Facilitator
Sexual addiction mentor

Professional Programme Endorsements

“As a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist who has treated and taught considerably in the field of sex addiction, I believe David Moore’s work is extremely important in the developing field of sex addiction in New Zealand. He has more than 25 years of counselling practice experience using the material in his practice with real clients and has a passion for helping both the people suffering and those that help to treat them. David’s work both informs and gives useful interventions for problematic sexual behaviour. It looks at the hard issues that can be motivating factors for those caught in this lifestyle and is an important contribution towards the sexual health of New Zealand.”

“David Moore has spent many years researching the need for a treatment programme for men with a sexual addiction. This is a much needed community offering. It is a problem that devastates many families. David brings a fresh thorough approach and is very professional. I warmly support this initiative and he is a person of great integrity. I am a registered psychologist and I was a founder member of the NZ Sexologist Society. While I currently work as an executive coach I have worked for many years on sexuality related issues including training as a sex therapist. My cilents have included a number of men with sexual addiction issues.”

“I am happy to endorse the STEPS Programme and believe the project to be of immense value to the improvement of our society in dealing with an often unspoken and difficult issue. Having digested the STEPS Programme. I am of the opinion that it involves a legitimate project, is led by a person of the highest character and is a most worthy project of government and private sector funding. The need to tackle issues such as problem sexuality in our community is the responsibility of all of us, whether in the legal profession or otherwise. From personal experience, I can add that projects such as yours are of immense value to those of us needing help in addressing and recovering from personal problems. I wish you well with the advancement of this programme.”

“In my capacity as a general practitioner with a professional interest in family violence prevention, I would like to endorse the STEPS Programme. I have worked collegially with the programme’s director David Moore and understand the foundation of his work and core objectives of the project. I believe there is a need for this work in the wider community to address an increasing problem in our society with problem sexuality which has widespread implications for the health and wellbeing of individuals and their families.”

THE FIRST SEX ADDICTION TREATMENT FORUM

Thank you for your participation in the review of the clinical assessment profile of the Living and Loving Freely programme, on 23 April 2016.

David Moore

David Moore

STEPS Founder, Counsellor and Author

David Moore has worked with the crisis of problem sexuality, addiction and abuse for over twenty five years. He is a member of ANZMH and DAPAANZ.

John Groom

John Groom

Chairperson and Facilitator

John Groom MA (Hons) Dip Tchg. Dip Bus. has been in the facilitation business all his working life. An experienced adult educator, John’s specialty is creating environments in which people can learn.

If you would like to host, or attend, a review forum in your area contact us for more detail.

Living and Loving Freely Programme Practitioner

Becoming a STEPS Practitioner of the Living And Loving Freely Treatment Programme will involve operating the full range of programmes, comprising the following:

The STEPS assessment profile is a sexual health assessment that has identified three levels of sexual addiction:

  • The first is passive addiction – losing control,
  • The second is compliant addiction – lost control, and
  • The third is clinical addiction – out of control.

Completing a STEPS Assessment is an excellent place for conducting a foundational sexual health assessment to define where you are on the continuum, where problematic sexuality has taken you and how to overcome its devastating influence.

The STEPS Assessment will be available towards the end of 2015. If you would like us to let you know when it’s ready, please leave us your details here.

Programme Outline:


What’s important about Living and Loving Freely? – Being defined by a life that is within your grasp


Introducing ourselves, by sharing our stories


Why vulnerability can feel empowering


What I want from doing this programme – A questionnaire about choices


Assessing triggers, red flags and impulse control – Detailing your recovery strengths and weaknesses


Understanding problematic sexuality, addiction and abuse – Describe the impact that knowledge is having on our life and relationships


Why recovery can be hard – None of us knows, or recovers, as much as all of us together


AIM strategies of Assessment, Intervention and Managemen – Journaling the journey of quality outcomes


Assessing remaining challenges and positive recovery outcomes

Programme Outline:


Identifying critical challenges and pressure points

Starting with what is hurting

Turning critical challenges into priority goals and anchor points

The objectivity of self-regulating, self-evaluating and self-validating

The recovery tool box

Combining will with skill

Assessing triggers, red flags and impulse control

Detailing your recovery strengths and weaknesses

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques

Changing the way you think can affect the way you behave

Developing your relapse prevention plan

Moving from relapse intention to relapse prevention

Assessing remaining challenges and positive recovery outcomes

Programme Outline:


Sexual narcissism

Confronting self preoccupation

Authentic Self

Unmask your false self – by discovering your true self

Moral Inventory

The process and power of forgiveness

Assessing triggers, red flags and impulse control

Detailing your recovery strengths and weaknesses

Growing up emotionally

Unlocking your emotions for healthy living

Monitoring the progress of your relapse prevention plan

The importance of intervention versus management

Assessing Remaining Challenges and Positive Recovery Outcomes

Programme Outline:


Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques

Changing the way you think can affect the way you behave

Cultivating spirituality and alternative highs

The virtue ethics of higher purpose and meaning to life

Communication

People skills that create healthy connection

Assessing triggers, red flags and impulse control

Detailing your recovery strengths and weaknesses

Relationships

Living and Loving Freely

Giving back

Life beyond ourselves

Monitoring the priorities of your relapse prevention plan

Living with accountability and relapse prevention

Assessing remaining challenges and positive recovery outcomes

WISE Partner Support Group is a programme run by women for women, who have been impacted by their partner’s problematic sexuality, addiction or abuse.

WISE Programme Outline

WISE: Women’s Intervention, Support and Empowerment

  • A place of confidence, healing and resolve
  • None of us know as much as all of us together
  • Sharing your story with those who understand your pain
  • When you know you’re not to blame but live as though you are
  • The trap of becoming a volunteer to your own victimisation
  • Processing the stages of grief
  • Dealing with the evidence without it destroying you
  • Defining and dispelling ‘all the myths’
  • Understanding your partner’s problem sexuality by undertaking a joint STEPS Assessment Profile
  • Getting the right professional help for both of you
  • Process your own historic default patterns of co-dependency, passivity, controlling or perfectionistic behaviours etc
  • Create your own recovery pathway

This series of six programmes is a vital tool in the treatment of problematic sexuality, addiction and abuse.  Workbooks are provided for each programme.

WISE Partner Support Group Facilitator

Women’s Intervention, Support and Empowerment Programme

WISE Partner Support Group

WISE Partner Support Group is a programme run by women for women, who have been impacted by their partner’s problematic sexuality, addiction or abuse.

WISE: Women’s Intervention, Support and Empowerment

  • A place of confidence, healing and resolve
  • None of us know as much as all of us together
  • Sharing your story with those who understand your pain
  • When you know you’re not to blame but live as though you are
  • The trap of becoming a volunteer to your own victimisation
  • Processing the stages of grief
  • Dealing with the evidence without it destroying you
  • Defining and dispelling ‘all the myths’
  • Understanding your partner’s problem sexuality by undertaking a joint STEPS Assessment Profile
  • Getting the right professional help for both of you
  • Process your own historic default patterns of co-dependency, passivity, controlling or perfectionistic behaviours etc
  • Create your own recovery pathway

A WISE facilitator will require a different qualifying criteria to that of a Living and Loving Freely practitioner.

Sexual Addiction Mentor

SAM

SAM is a sex addiction mentor who provides practical back up support to the addiction practitioner, within a Living And Loving Freely group therapy programme.

A Sexual Addiction Mentor will require a different qualifying criteria to that of a Living And Loving Freely practitioner.

Would you like to be informed of SHIFT New Zealand updates and programme developments?

Next Steps

Based on your area/s of interest, please select from the following:

  • Following each forum, those interested in a business opportunity with STEPS will be able to evaluate and review the remainder of the STEPS five programmes once each workbook is completed (during 2016/17).
  • The official launch of the STEPS Living and Loving Freely™ treatment programme is planned for 2017.  This time frame will allow for further sex addiction treatment forums, consideration, consultation and due diligence.
  • Becoming a STEPS Addiction Practitioner or STEPS Addiction Facilitator will require individuals to meet the STEPS License Agreement terms and conditions. The status of ‘Sex Addiction Practitioner’ would be given as part of existing qualifications and professional membership.
  • Please note: The media will not be invited to the above treatment forums.
  • The status of WISE partner support group facilitator or sex addiction mentor requires a different qualifying criteria.
  • This business opportunity includes a licence agreement, and a background understanding of the author’s programme methodology, which will be available on or before the end of March 2016.
  • All Sex Addiction Treatment Forums are proudly supported by STEPS (Steps To Ending Problem Sexuality), The Living and Loving Freely™ Treatment Programme, CrossRoads Counselling Centre Ltd and Growth for Both Retreats.
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