Freedom Model Coaching
Work Privately with Mark and Michelle and Experience The Freedom Model Solution!
“We are looking forward to helping you! Let’s get rid of your confusion about substances and your relationship to them, and shed light on your fears and anxieties so you can move past them for good!”
– Mark Scheeren
FREEDOM MODEL COMPLETE COACHING PACKAGE
Experience the Freedom Model Coaching Program in-person with addiction experts, and Freedom Model Co-Authors, Mark and Michelle!
What's Included?
The Freedom Model’s Complete Coaching Package with Mark and Michelle includes :
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- Your coaching journey begins with an intensive, in-person (or virtual), 2-day private workshop with addiction experts and authors of The Freedom Model for Addictions, Mark Scheeren and Michelle Dunbar
- 3 private 90-minute Coaching Sessions via Zoom during the weeks following the workshop*
- A full year subscription to The Freedom Model Online Program* (FMOP is comprised of more than 150 video lessons taught by Mark and Michelle that guide you through The Freedom Model curriculum with new lessons added each month)
- Your year-long subscription to FMOP includes a 2-hour question and answer session with Mark and Michelle each month*
- Absolute privacy and confidentiality!
- Tailored to fit your specific goals and needs.
- No record of being treated! (Vital for licensed professionals, high profile careers, and young people just starting out their personal and professional lives.)
*Follow-up education and support is always optional and based on your learning style and goals. Not everyone will need or want to meet with us for a full year but we include it so it’s there for you if you have questions in that first year as you are working to solve your problem. We want the absolute best for you!
CALL TODAY FOR YOUR FREE CONFIDENTIAL CONSULTATION
1-888-424-2626
THE SOLUTION TO ADDICTION COACHING PACKAGE
Solve Addiction without Rehabs, Steps or Meetings!
What's Included?
The Solution to Addiction Coaching Package includes:
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- 3 completely private, 1-on-1 Coaching Sessions (approximately 90 minutes each) via video conference with a Certified Freedom Model Coach
- The Solution to Addiction Workshop (which is a 3-hr pre-recorded workshop taught directly by Freedom Model Co-founders and addiction experts, Mark Scheeren and Michelle Dunbar)
- 3 month subscription to The Freedom Model Online Program* (FMOP is comprised of more than 150 video lessons taught by Mark and Michelle that guide you through The Freedom Model curriculum with new lessons added each month)
- Included with your FMOP subscription, is a 2-hour Question and Answer Session with Mark and Michelle each month.
- Absolute privacy and confidentiality!
- No record of being treated! (Vital for licensed professionals, high profile careers, and young people just starting out their personal and professional lives.)
CALL TODAY FOR YOUR FREE CONFIDENTIAL CONSULTATION
1-888-424-2626
FREEDOM MODEL PMO & SEX ADDICTION COACHING PACKAGE
Solve PMO Addiction without Feeling Deprived or Being in Endless Recovery!
What's Included?
Freedom Model PMO & Sex Addiction Coaching Package with includes:
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- 3 completely private, 1-on-1 Coaching Sessions (approximately 90 minutes each) via video conference with a Certified Freedom Model Coach
- The Solution to PMO & Sex Addiction Workshop (which is a 3-hr pre-recorded workshop taught directly by Freedom Model Co-founders and addiction experts, Mark Scheeren and Michelle Dunbar)
- 3 month subscription to The Freedom Model Online Program* (FMOP is comprised of more than 150 video lessons taught by Mark and Michelle that guide you through The Freedom Model curriculum with new lessons added each month)
- Included with your FMOP subscription, is a 2-hour Question and Answer Session with Mark and Michelle each month.
- In addition, you can also talk directly with Mark and Michelle once per month in a 2-hour Question and Answer Coaching Session while your Freedom Model Online Program access is active.
- Absolute privacy and confidentiality!
- No record of being treated! (Vital for licensed professionals, high profile careers, and young people just starting out their personal and professional lives.)
CALL TODAY FOR YOUR FREE CONFIDENTIAL CONSULTATION
1-888-424-2626
What is the Freedom Model’s Coaching Method?
Some people are auto-didactic (meaning they can learn and internalize the addiction solution through reading our book, The Freedom Model for Addictions: Escape the Treatment and Recovery Trap), while others learn the solution by watching our pre-recorded video tutorials, (through the Freedom Model Online Program or The Solution To Addiction Workshop), and still others learn most effectively through a private discussion with a knowledgeable person. It is for these people that we offer Freedom Model Coaching.
But what exactly is Freedom Model Coaching?
The reason coaching is a preferred method for solving substance use problems centers on the back and forth dialogue that provides insights and a logical path out of the substance use habit trap. But know this, not all coaching for addictions is the same. Freedom Model Coaching is the most successful coaching method for substance use problems because it has 3 distinct proprietary elements that makes these coaching sessions powerful, logical, understandable, and most importantly, effective.
The FM Certified Coach
All FM Coaching is completely non-judgemental and not prescriptive. We will not judge your behaviors, choices, relationships, lifestyle, past actions or habits, nor will we tell you how you should live your life. We value an individual’s personal autonomy and free will. It is not our job to judge, and we know that amplifying guilt, shame, or regret can only hamper the learning process. With this in mind, we do not coerce, manipulate or increase fear, anxiety or shame to drive our students’ behavior-change as so many “coaching” disciplines do.
The Teaching Technique
All FM Sessions are based on the Socratic Method. Meaning, we will ask a lot of questions as a means to problem-solve issues. As Mark Scheeren, Freedom Model’s Co-Founder says when working the first few sessions with a student, “We will need to build your puzzle. Try to remember, you’ve lived with yourself, well, since your beginning – I’m here just learning about you. So I’ll have to ask a lot of questions to build the puzzle. And then I’ll ask more questions that will facilitate self-discovery. This is known as the Socratic Method, and it works.” In a Socratic Method session the student and teacher build a comfortable dialogue that allows for the student to learn by his/her own cognitive processes, not by the teacher leading, coercing or manipulating.
The Information/Curriculum
By providing the researched facts about actual, objective drug effects and also debunking the massive amount of addiction and recovery lore and misinformation through the 470 page Freedom Model text/curriculum, all Freedom Model Coaching provides the student necessary facts and information to devalue the drug experience. This then makes the desire for heavy use less appealing. In short, providing facts helps to devalue a strong preference for heavy use, making the process of solving the problem and moving on much easier and more fulfilling.
Cognitive Behavioral Education (CBE)
When we combine all three coaching components, it builds a discipline we call Cognitive Behavioral Education. To understand CBE, we must briefly explain its forebearer, CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a means of comparison. CBT as a therapy has become all the rage over the last twenty years – it’s become a buzzword that many flout to bolster their professional therapy resumes and round out a description of their therapeutic practices. While relatively new on the scene, CBT’s results as a solid performer to help people transform their lives is well known in therapeutic circles. While CBT has been shown to be highly effective for people struggling with depression, anxiety, OCD, and other mental health issues, it has not been effective at helping people to solve substance use issues and other behavioral “addictions”. This is largely due to it being combined with addiction disease/disorder mythology and misinformation, as well as the personal judgments and biases of the therapist. It’s important to understand that the goal of therapy is for the therapist to change the client/patient’s thoughts and beliefs to what the therapist deems as correct.
In 1989 when we began the first coaching method for a substance use problem, we looked at the various mental health therapies as a model to emulate. After much research and development, we ended up rejecting all of them in favor of an educational model. We found education to be far more effective and non-judgmental, and the research at the time demonstrated real promise. In light of our discoveries at the time, the first coaching model we developed was called The Educational Initiative.
This coaching model soon went through a number of name and programmatic improvements and changes over the 20 years that followed as our research staff and projects grew. In the midst of all this, in the early aughts we learned about CBT’s effectiveness as a therapeutic model, and brought CBT’s ideals together with our educational approach to create the Cognitive Behavioral Education discipline. This has since been the macro-moniker for our coaching method. Since that coining, CBE as a coaching discipline has stood the test of time as the most effective method in the world for coaching people with substance use problems and other behavioral issues.
Simply put, CBE is cognitive in that we discuss changing and adapting one’s thoughts and mind, which then changes behaviors, which then changes a life. All of this is facilitated through data, facts, research, and a Freedom Model Coach who educates (i.e. provides factual information). Hence, Cognitive Behavioral Education and Freedom Model Coaching.
Additional Freedom Model Coaching Options
Freedom Model Online Program
More than 120 video tutorials (and we are always adding more) and a Monthly Live 2-Hour Q&A Coaching Session with Mark Scheeren and Michelle Dunbar. Learn the entire Freedom Model curriculum at home, at your pace, and on your schedule, on your PC or through our Mobile App. The Freedom Model Online Program is included with All Coaching Packages.
The Freedom Model Coalition
Addiction is worsening despite more spending on outdated treatments. The Freedom Model has helped 25,000+ people overcome addiction with a proven, cost-effective solution. Join our coalition to help spread this life-changing approach worldwide through books, programs, and masterclasses. Together, we can transform how addiction is addressed and save countless lives. Sign up today to be part of this global movement!
12 Step Deprogramming Course
The teachings of AA and NA have harmed millions of people over its nearly 90 year history. This course will provide you with factual information so you can leave without fear, guilt, or shame, and move on with your life in more productive and fulfilling ways.
Move Past Addiction Masterclass
This FREE 1-hour introductory class is taught directly by Freedom Model Co-Founders Mark Scheeren and Michelle Dunbar. Learn how millions of people solve their addictions without rehabs, 12 step programs, group therapy, addiction medications (excluding detoxification services), and the trappings of perpetual recovery.