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Practical tools. Personal goals. Supportive community.
SMART Recovery is a free mutual-support program for adults who want to make positive changes related to alcohol, substance use, or other addictive behaviors.
Participants use practical, self-management and behavior-change tools to explore their own goals and build skills for meaningful change.
Abstinence is not a requirement for participation. You are welcome wherever you are in the process of making change.
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People come to SMART Recovery with different experiences, different goals, and different ideas about what change looks like for them.
The program focuses on practical tools for self-management, decision-making, coping, and behavior change rather than requiring participants to adopt a particular label or recovery identity.
The goal is to help participants build skills, confidence, and support for the changes they choose to pursue.
SMART Recovery meetings are organized around four areas of self-directed change.
Explore what matters to you, why you want change, and how to strengthen your motivation over time.
Learn practical ways to notice, understand, and respond to urges and cravings.
Explore how thoughts, emotions, choices, and behaviors can influence one another.
Build a life that includes meaning, relationships, health, activities, and priorities beyond addictive behavior.
This Community Circle is intended for adults who want support making changes in their own substance use or other addictive behaviors.
You do not need to have everything figured out before attending. Curiosity about change is enough to begin.
Use practical tools to work toward your own goals and respond to challenges along the way.
Continue strengthening skills, motivation, balance, and support as your goals and life evolve.
SMART Recovery welcomes people with different personal recovery goals.
You do not need to be abstinent before attending a meeting.
The program does not prescribe one recovery goal for everyone. Instead, participants learn self-management and behavior-change tools that they can apply to their own goals and choices.
The expectation is that participants take part in a respectful way that allows the meeting to remain supportive for everyone.
SMART Recovery is an open mutual-support program.
You do not need to complete a particular sequence before attending, and long-term commitment is not required.
Participants may join when support or practical tools would be useful and return as often as they choose.
You are encouraged to participate, but you are not required to tell your entire story or disclose information you would prefer to keep private.
Meetings focus on the present and on practical ways to make change.
Identify what you want to change and what matters enough to make that change worthwhile.
Explore practical SMART Recovery tools for motivation, urges, thoughts, emotions, and behavior.
Use discussion and practical strategies to work through real-life challenges and setbacks.
Learn alongside other people working toward positive changes of their own.
Meeting topics may vary, but discussion and SMART tools often address areas such as:
Clarify your reasons for change and strengthen motivation when it shifts.
Explore strategies for recognizing, tolerating, and responding to urges without acting automatically.
Notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice more useful ways of responding.
Explore how stress, emotions, and circumstances may influence behavior and choices.
Use setbacks as information for learning rather than as a reason to give up on change.
Strengthen relationships, activities, health, purpose, and other parts of life that support change.
The exact flow may vary, but meetings generally focus on current challenges, SMART tools, problem-solving, and participant goals.
Arrive, connect, and identify current successes, challenges, or topics you would like to explore.
Use SMART tools, group discussion, and practical problem-solving to explore current challenges.
Identify a useful idea, tool, or next step to carry into the week ahead.
Meetings are guided using the SMART Recovery approach and may be facilitated by appropriately trained SMART Recovery facilitators or qualified members of the local healthcare or peer-support community.
Facilitators help guide discussion, introduce SMART tools, and support a respectful, goal-oriented meeting environment.
Specific facilitators may vary based on availability.
When a local SMART Recovery meeting is scheduled through Elevate, available dates will appear below.
Use the Mindbody listing to register for the local in-person meeting.
Don't see a meeting listed? A future local meeting may not yet be scheduled. You may still join the Elevate contact list below or explore SMART Recovery's online meetings.
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SMART Recovery offers online meetings through its official meeting network.
The SMART Recovery meeting listing can provide current meeting details and the Zoom information needed to participate virtually when available.
This can be useful if you cannot attend the Mammoth meeting in person, if no local meeting is currently scheduled, or if another meeting time works better for your schedule.
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Please use the SMART Recovery meeting listing for the most current online meeting and Zoom information.
The SMART Recovery 4-Point Program is designed primarily for people working on changes in their own addictive behaviors.
SMART Recovery also offers a separate Family & Friends program for people affected by the addictive behavior of someone they care about.
Family members, partners, and friends can use the SMART Recovery Meeting Finder to look for Family & Friends meetings online or in other communities.
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Want to hear about future SMART Recovery meetings and related opportunities through Elevate?
Join the contact list and we can keep you informed about local meeting dates and schedule updates.
Joining the contact list does not register you for a specific meeting.
You can also use the SMART Recovery meeting finder at any time to explore additional in-person or online meetings.
Local SMART Recovery Community Circle meetings through Elevate are offered free of charge.
SMART Recovery also offers free mutual-support meetings through its broader meeting network.
If you would like to support Elevate programming, you may consider making a gift through the Mammoth Hospital Foundation.
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Elevate SMART Recovery meetings are typically held at:
Elevate Wellness & Performance121 College ParkwayMammoth Lakes, CA 93546
Meetings may use the second-floor study or another Elevate gathering space.
Check the current Mindbody listing for meeting-specific location information.
SMART Recovery is a mutual-support and self-management program.
The local Community Circle is not detoxification, substance use disorder treatment, psychotherapy, medical care, or a substitute for individualized behavioral health or addiction treatment.
Participants who need medical support for withdrawal, medication management, mental health symptoms, or another individual clinical concern should connect with an appropriate healthcare professional.
A Community Circle is not designed to respond to a medical or behavioral health emergency.
If you or someone else may be experiencing a life-threatening emergency, severe intoxication, dangerous withdrawal, or another urgent medical concern, seek emergency medical care.
If you are experiencing a mental health or suicide crisis, call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
Participants may have different goals, experiences, and paths toward change.
The group asks participants to respect one another's autonomy and avoid judging, ranking, or prescribing another person's recovery goals.
Participants are also encouraged to respect the privacy of others and not share personal stories or identifying information outside the meeting without permission.
Because this is a mutual-support group, rather than a private one-to-one clinical encounter, share only what you are comfortable discussing in a group setting.
If you would like help with local registration or have questions about the Mammoth meeting, contact Elevate.
760-924-4301
elevate@mammothhospital.com
For additional SMART Recovery meetings or online access, use the official SMART Recovery Meeting Finder.
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SMART stands for Self-Management and Recovery Training.
It is a mutual-support program that uses practical, evidence-informed self-management and behavior-change tools for people working on addictive behaviors.
The SMART Recovery 4-Point Program focuses on:
No. SMART Recovery does not require abstinence as a condition of participation.
Participants may have different personal goals related to changing their addictive behavior.
SMART Recovery welcomes people with different recovery goals, including people who are not pursuing abstinence.
SMART itself does not prescribe harm reduction, moderation, or abstinence. Its focus is on self-management and behavior-change tools that participants apply to their own goals.
No. SMART Recovery does not require participants to adopt a particular label or recovery identity.
No. There is no long-term attendance requirement.
Participants may attend when meetings and SMART tools are useful for their goals.
Yes. SMART Recovery offers online meetings, and virtual meeting details are available through the official SMART Recovery Meeting Finder.
Use the link on this page to find current meeting and Zoom information.
The SMART Recovery 4-Point Program is designed for people working on their own addictive behaviors.
SMART Recovery offers a separate Family & Friends program for partners, family members, and friends affected by someone else's addictive behavior.
Use the SMART Recovery Meeting Finder to explore Family & Friends meetings.
SMART Recovery is a secular mutual-support program and does not require religious or spiritual beliefs for participation.
No. SMART Recovery is a mutual-support and self-management program.
It does not replace individualized medical, behavioral health, or substance use treatment when those services are needed.
Elevate's local SMART Recovery meetings are offered free of charge.
Current local meeting dates will appear in the Mindbody registration section above.
If no local meeting is currently listed, join the Elevate contact list or use the SMART Recovery Meeting Finder to explore other available meetings.
Mindbody registers you for a specific local Elevate meeting when one is scheduled.
The Elevate contact list allows us to send you information about future local meetings, but does not register you for a specific date.
The SMART Recovery Meeting Finder provides access to SMART's broader network of in-person and online meetings, including current virtual meeting information.
Learn more about SMART tools, programs, and the broader SMART Recovery community.
Explore additional community, support, and connection-based groups at Elevate.
Explore opportunities to learn, connect, participate, and support wellbeing across our community.
Explore your patterns, motivation, choices, and practical tools for change.
Build skills for responding to urges, challenges, and situations that may affect your goals.
Learn alongside others working toward meaningful changes of their own.
Create space for balance, reflection, self-management, and sustainable change.
Attend a local SMART Recovery meeting, join the Elevate contact list, or connect virtually through the broader SMART Recovery network.
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