State of the State

As decided in the recent settlement between Refuge Recovery and Noah Levine, et al, Refuge Recovery, the non-profit organization, will undergo dissolution at the end of this month.  A new non-profit called Recovery Dharma [RD] has been created to support the Refuge Recovery groups who wish to no longer be associated with Noah Levine and his private businesses. Another organization led by Noah Levine called Refuge Recovery World Services [RRWS] will soon take control of Refuge Recovery's website, meeting and mailing lists, official Facebook pages and groups. This will not include any website's - such as this one- or FB groups created by private individuals, existing individual meetings or intersanghas, etc.

Meetings such as those of ours in the Phoenix metro area will each decide what to do next - whether that be joining the Noah Levine led RRWS, or the non-profit collective, Recovery Dharma, or declaring independence, or dissolution, etc.  To that end, I strongly encourage you to:

• watch the video above of in which representatives from both new organizations, Noah Levine and Amy Reed, present mission statements, or
• read the transcript of Amy Reed's statement, and
• read the draft of Recovery Dharma's free book, The Dharma of Recovery: Using Buddhist Practice and Principles to End the Suffering of Addiction, which you are free to print, bind, distribute, etc. 

All listed above is also available on this website's Resources page. More will soon follow including meeting formats, and worksheets for Noble Truth and Eightfold Path Inquiry work. 

Living in impermanence, we see death and rebirth.

Buddha, Dharma, Sangha.

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