Community Alcohol Abuse Group: Facilitation and Session Overview

This report outlines a community-based group facilitation program designed to address alcohol abuse and addiction. The program consists of seven sessions, beginning with introductions and establishing group rules, followed by discussions on the effects of alcohol, and a powerpoint presentation with images to showcase the effects of alcohol consumption. The sessions delve into the adverse health effects, and ways to stop alcohol consumption. The program incorporates activities such as group discussions, sharing personal experiences of those who have successfully fought addiction, and watching movies to reinforce key concepts. A follow-up session is planned 20 days later to assess the participants' progress and the impact of the program. The goal is to educate participants on the dangers of alcohol and provide them with the resources and support to quit alcohol and spread awareness in the community.

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Session 1: Introduction
I will be talking to my audience (alcohol abusers) in the community which will take place
in the Community Hall twice a week as a facilitator. I will start by introducing myself, telling the
audience my names and my profession as well as the topic of our discussion and its importance. I
will give each participant 30 seconds to introduce himself or herself by telling us his/her name,
where he/she comes from and his/her profession. After introduction, I will have an interactive ten
minutes session to set the grounds rules to guide our participative course.
Each and every one will be given an opportunity to propose any rules and then I will
write them down including respect for one’s opinion, talking only when given chance, raising
hands when one want to talk, have a respect disagreement, no accusation, no name calling, no
interruption when one is giving his or her contribution, respect for group time and serious
consideration for comments. I will have the group elect their leaders including chairperson,
secretary, energizer, organizing secretary, time-keeper and welfare. I will explain and assign
each leader his/her roles and responsibilities. I will then give the group general overview of what
the whole sessions will cover and look like.
Session 2: Talking About Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse
Though classified as a depressant, the quantity of alcohol consumed dictates the kind of
effects. Many people drink alcohol (beer) for stimulant effects to loosen them up. However,
where an individual consumes more alcohol than his or her body can handle, he will experience
the depressant effect of alcohol. Is alcohol that bad? It is well-unraveled that overconsumption
of alcohol, is bad for a person, even if it is done every once in a while. Alcohol is an addictive
substance and hence affect the body by inducing a chemical-imbalance emerging from a cycle of
pleasure alongside tension. Drinking alcohol for the first time leads to a euphoric- or “high”-

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feeling. Alcohol will trigger brain damage through binge drinking through blackouts, loss of
memory alongside anxiety.
Long-term consumption of alcohol leads to permanent damage to brain, severe mental
health challenges alongside alcoholism/dependence on alcohol. Because alcohol is depressant,
any amount consumed makes a person probably to get blues. Overconsumption is harmful to
brain and hence depression. Drinking too much alcohol will make one likely to reach bad
decision besides impulse-action.
Alcohol will also dehydrates the body including skin-largest organ of the body when
consumed. Too much drinking deprives your skin of important vitamins alongside nutrients.
Heavy drinking over time will have more permanent and detrimental effects of one’s skin. An
apple a day keeps a doctor away, but what about a beer or alcohol a day? To this end, I will let
the participants ponder about the question and give their opinions on the adverse health effects of
alcohol consumption. Participants will be allowed to even share their real-life experiences.
Session 3: Power Presentation on Effects of Alcohol
In this session, I will run a power point presentation with images and photos to help
comprehensively showcase the effects of alcohol consumption on the person. I will showcase
how alcohol consumption affects and change the life both physically and emotionally, and how
such effects will severely end up. At this juncture, I will undertake an activity whereby the
audience would be split into smaller groups of three or five members. I will have each group
assigned a particular adverse effect of alcohol and discuss it in details amongst themselves
including real-life experience. The discussion will be limited to five minutes and each group will
present their findings by coming in front and share their opinions. Each audience from other
groups will have the opportunity to ask presenting-group questions or additions. After groups’

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presentation, I will summarize by recapping all what each group had discussed. We will then
take a break of 15 minutes for welfare and then come back to proceed in the next session.
Session 4: Stopping Alcohol Consumption/Addiction
In session 4, I will be talking about ways in which the audience can stop the consumption
of alcohol. I will showcase ways in which we can work together as a team to stop addiction. To
begin with, I will have each audience give suggestion or opinion on how and what can be done to
effect change and write them down on the white board. Once everyone shall have talked and
suggested the particularly ways of stopping addiction, I will peruse them, discussing them
comprehensively. I will add any important way that might have been left out by the audience and
explain why I felt it was worth being included.
Session 5: Sharing Personal Experiences
Before starting this session, I will have the energizer take us through energizing moment
of five minutes so as to begin the new session with freshness. Once we have energized, which
could include singing or stretching, I will introduce the audience on what session 5 would entail.
This session will include sharing experiences of those who have successfully fought their
addiction. I will have people who were once engaged in binge drinking but have subsequently
stopped drinking to share their experiences. They will not be limited solely to their experiences
personally, they will be given a latitude to even share about their friends, neighbors, relatives and
family members who have subsequently stopped drinking. In case we have those who have
relapsed, they will be given extra opportunity to share with the group the particular means
through which they succeeded in the first place and the reasons or situations that made them
revert. They will also be free to share with us what they think they could have done best to avoid
relapse including particular places.

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Session 6: Watching Movies on Effects of Alcohol and How to Stop Addiction
In this session, I will play a one-hour movie/video for my audience detailing how
consumption of alcohol starts, subsequent addiction, its effects and how one can stop the
addiction. While watching, I will have them take keen interest and note down key points from
the video. At the end of the video, I will talk to participants about the movie to add key points
they might overlooked and how we can stop addiction. I will then have them resort to their
earlier groupings as done in session 3 to make a poster of addiction to alcohol with inspirational
words regarding how it affects individuals. I will them direct the audience to select a spot where
each group would post their respective posters to create awareness on negative effects of alcohol.
Session 7: Follow- Up (20 days later)
I will have a follow-up activity whereby I will ask the participants to share how their life
had changed following the sessions. I will ask them whether they have stopped or they have
helped their friends or any other person stopped addiction. I will also ask about the impacts of
their posters on creation of awareness in the community.
The goals following the sessions will a clear understanding about alcohol and that it is
deplorable. I will have the audience leave with understanding that many alternatives exist to quit
alcohol. I will gauge if such goals are accomplished through follow-up when I meet my audience
after 20 days on what they have done to quit and create awareness. I had an incredible
experience facilitating my audience. I managed to spread awareness and assist my audience
personally and educate them on how to spread awareness to stop addiction spread in the
community.