2019 Agenda:

• Kicking Ass: Building Recovery Community Power
• Sleeping around: Practicing Multiple Forms of Recovery
• Just Got Out: Navigating Post-Incarceration Recovery
• All’s Fair in Love & Recovery!
• How Spiritual is my Recovery?
• The Emerging Science of Recovery
• We Won’t be Marginalized: Racism, Sexism, Homophobia & Recovery
• What Now? Building Family Support Groups
• Not Your Grandfather’s Recovery: MAT & Harm Reduction as Part of the Recovery Continuum
• Movement Building: What Can We Learn from Marriage Equality and HIV/AIDS Campaigns
• And More!

Additionally, we will provide space for closed affinity groups (eg. LGBTC, Communities of Color, formerly incarcerated, etc), offer guided bike tours, recovery yoga sessions and multiple forms of organized recovery meetings (eg. Wellbriety, Refuge Recovery, SMART, and 12 Steps).

There will also be a comedy slam, a music circle and an ongoing recovery art workshop.

Please understand that some programming in tentative and may be moved to other time slots to accommodate the participants’ schedules.

3pm: Registration Opens, Exhibits Open

3:30pm: Breakout Sessions (long session: 1.5 hrs)

• Workshop: Kicking Ass: Building Recovery Community Power (Part One)

• Workshop: Not Your Grandfather’s Recovery: MAT and Harm Reduction

• Panel: We Won’t Be Marginalized! Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Privilege and Recovery

• Recovery Meeting: Secular Sobriety

5pm: Meet Our Vendors!

5:15pm: Breakout Sessions

• Workshop: All’s Fair in Love and Recovery: Healthy Relationships in Recovery

• Workshop: For the Love of Art! Recovery Through Creative Expression (Part One)

• Workshop: Rock to Recovery

• Recovery Meeting: Celebrate Recovery

6:45pm: Meet Our Vendors!

7pm: BBQ on the Patio

8pm: Welcome,
Panel: Building a Recovery Movement: What the Hell Does That Mean?

9:30pm: Get to know your Recovery Community!

7am: Recovery Meetings

• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Narcotics Anonymous
• Recovery Yoga

8am: Breakfast, Exhibits Open, Registration Opens

9am: Morning Plenary with Senator Ron Wyden,
Keynote: Andy Mendenhall, Chief Medical Officer of Central City Concern

10:30am: Meet Our Vendors!

10:45am: Breakout Sessions

• Workshop: Alcohol & Drug Policy Commission Strategic Planning Process

• Panel: Got a Recovery Center? The Why and How-To of Building a Recovery Center

• Workshop: Our Movement, Our History: Building an Addiction Recovery Timeline

• Workshop: Is Medication Assisted Treatment Recovery?

12:15pm: Meet Our Vendors!

12:30pm: Lunch with Unloaded Comedy

1:30pm: Meet Our Vendors!

1:45pm: Breakout Sessions

• Workshop: For the Love of Art! Recovery Through Creative Expression (Part Two)

• Panel: From the Ground Up: Building a New Intervention System

• Panel: Poly Recovery! Practicing Multiple Forms of Recovery Panel

2:45pm: Meet Our Vendors!

3pm: Breakout Sessions

• Panel: Movement Building: What Can We Learn from the Marriage Equality and HIV/AIDS Campaigns?

• Panel: What Now? Building Family Support Groups

4pm: Meet Our Vendors!

4:15pm: Recovery Meetings

• Refuge Recovery
• SMART Recovery Family and Friends
• Wellbriety (Part One)

5:15pm: Meet Our Vendors!

5:30pm: Recovery Meetings

• Wellbriety Part 2
• Recovery Yoga
• SMART Recovery

6:30pm: Meet Our Vendors!

7pm: Dinner Plenary with J. Carlos Rivera, Executive Director of White Bison, Inc.

8:30pm: Film & Discussion: Anonymous People

7am: Recovery Meetings

• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Narcotics Anonymous
• Recovery Yoga

8am: Breakfast

9am: Plenary

10:30am: Meet Our Vendors!

10:45am: Breakout Session/Activities

• Panel: Food, Glorious Food! Diet and Exercise in Recovery

• Panel: Just Got Out: Navigating Post-Incarceration Recovery

• Workshop: Kicking Ass: Building Recovery Community Power (Part Two)

12:15pm: Meet Our Vendors!

12:30pm: Plenary Lunch: Mike Marshall, Oregon Recovers

1:30pm: Adjourn