Detroit – Mindshift Recovery Group Facilitator Training
August 19 - 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
$50.00
Mindshift Recovery is a peer-led, science-based recovery program that helps individuals understand and change habits through awareness, curiosity, and evidence-based practices rather than willpower. Developed by addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist Jud Brewer, the program teaches a three-step method for retraining the brain to change habits, building emotional regulation, and supporting long-term recovery. Supporting employee well-being is essential to maintaining a healthy, productive, and resilient workforce.
Mindshift Recovery Facilitator Training equips employees with practical, science-based tools to better understand behavior change, emotional regulation, and recovery support—skills that benefit both individuals and organizations.
Program Requirements
To complete the program and become a Mindshift Recovery Group Facilitator, participants must:
- Complete personal regular mindfulness practice.
- Complete foundational training.
- Participate in experiential learning sessions.
- Attend required peer practice groups.
- Demonstrate use of the Mindshift Method in practice.
- Commit to ongoing learning (national or state calls).
- Be willing to apply the method personally.
- Be open to learning and growth.
Peers will learn:
- Science-based recovery approach focused on changing habits through awareness, curiosity, and understanding how the brain works rather than relying on willpower.
- Peer-led support model that provides practical recovery tools peers can use in everyday life and supporting others.
- Science based tools for habit and behavioral change, emotional regulation, burnout prevention, habit mapping, and non-judgmental peer support skills.
- Mindfulness practice, foundational training, experiential learning, peer practice groups, and ongoing professional growth.
- Sustainable change through self-awareness, community connection, and science-backed behavioral change strategies.
- Broader community impact aims to expand access to recovery resources, reduce stigma, and strengthen the peer support workforce.
Trainers:
Dan Holcomb is a Senior Facilitator and Founding Contributor at Mindshift Recovery, where he leads groups, facilitates mentor calls, and helps translate the Mindshift Method into practical, real-world recovery. His work is rooted in the intersection of mindfulness and neuroscience, helping people understand and change habit patterns through awareness and curiosity.
After years of struggling with substance use and other habitual behaviors, Dan discovered the work of Dr. Jud Brewer in 2019. The science-based approach transformed his understanding of recovery and inspired his commitment to helping others create lasting change.
Dan is also helping expand Mindshift’s reach through its essential course, podcast, and community programs. Outside of Mindshift, he serves as Chief Operating Officer of Gruen Systems USA and is a lifelong musician and songwriter.
Mary Beth Stern is an internationally certified addictions counselor, certified mindfulness-based intervention teacher, and advanced habit change facilitator with 40 years of personal sobriety and more than a decade of clinical leadership experience. She combines lived recovery experience with extensive training in addiction treatment, mindfulness-based interventions, and neuroscience-informed behavior change.
As mindfulness leader for Mindshift Recovery’s Facilitation Team, Mary Beth designs curriculum, leads mindfulness-based habit change groups, and mentors facilitators. She has taught more than 75 Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses worldwide and has led silent retreats.
Her work bridges brain science, mindfulness, and long-term recovery, helping individuals create lasting change through awareness, curiosity, and evidence-based practices.
Jose Salinas, CPRC, CPSS, is dually certified as a Peer Support Specialist and Peer Recovery Coach and a state of Michigan Peer trainer. With over a decade of experience in peer support, Jose has facilitated trainings in Mental Health First Aid, QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer), Emotional CPR, and mindfulness-based programs for addiction recovery. He is deeply committed to helping individuals navigate recovery from substance use and mental health challenges, offering trauma-sensitive, and compassionate support rooted in lived experience.
A person in long-term recovery from addiction, mental health conditions, trauma, and poverty, Jose is passionate about sharing his story to inspire hope and healing in others. He finds strength and connection through nature, community, and his two loyal Australian Shepherds, Chiquis, and Peques—his sunrise hike partners on hidden trails. Jose believes he didn’t survive addiction for himself alone, but to support others. His life’s work is guided by a drive to help people find their own paths to wellness and recovery.
Eligible for 6.5 Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Continuing Education credits.
Coffee and lunch will be served at this training.
Registration: Please register below (on this site) using a credit or debit card, which is the quickest way to confirm your attendance. ONLY if you need to pay by check, please complete this form (click here) and email it to: registration@mipeers.org. Do not use this form if you are paying by credit/debit card. Please note that this form takes up to 5 business days for processing, and registration is not assured until we receive the check, and you receive a confirmation of your registration.
Cancellation Policy: Registrations may be transferred to another employee of the same agency upon written request to registration@mipeers.org. Cancellations must be received in writing at least 12 days prior to the date of the training. Failure to cancel registration within the allotted time will result in registration fees being forfeited. For questions, e-mail registration@mipeers.org.
Attendance Policy: You must attend the entire training. If you are more than 10 minutes late you will not be allowed to attend as part of the CE requirements. Breaks are built into the training schedule. Participants who miss more than 10 minutes of the training outside of scheduled breaks will not receive CE credit. Attendees must follow the training guidelines.
Lodging is not provided, a hotel room block is available with the link below, cut off for this block is July 18th 2026.
