2023 Workshops
Thursday, October 5, 3:00-6:00 P.M.
Open 12-Step Drop-in Meeting-- Owl Overlook Room
"Open" meetings are open to all. "Drop-in" means you can arrive and depart any time.
"Open" meetings are open to all. "Drop-in" means you can arrive and depart any time.
4:00-5:00 P.M.
Mastery- a Path for Building Long-term Recovery--Eagles Nest Room
Barry Lehman, Mastering Recovery, pastor, counselor and author
Barry Lehman, Mastering Recovery, pastor, counselor and author
5:00-6:00 P.M.
Narcan Training--Hawks Ridge Room
Randy Anderson, Bold North Recovery and Consulting, Founder and Principal
Randy Anderson, Bold North Recovery and Consulting, Founder and Principal
Breakout Sessions
Breakout Session #1 - Friday, October 6 - 10:30 A.M. - 11:45 P.M.
1. Addiction & Science--How God Created our Brains--Dr. Hamed Ekhtiari--Mallard Point Room
2. How and Why to Create a Recovery Friendly Congregation--Pastor John Sutherland, Drew Brooks & Rev. Ed Treat--Cardinal's Perch Room
3. Shepherding Our Youth: The Role of Faith Communities in the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Abuse--Rev. Joy Gonnerman--Eagles Nest Room
4. Drug Policy and the Common Good--Rev. Al Sharp--Hawks Ridge Room
2. How and Why to Create a Recovery Friendly Congregation--Pastor John Sutherland, Drew Brooks & Rev. Ed Treat--Cardinal's Perch Room
3. Shepherding Our Youth: The Role of Faith Communities in the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Abuse--Rev. Joy Gonnerman--Eagles Nest Room
4. Drug Policy and the Common Good--Rev. Al Sharp--Hawks Ridge Room
Breakout Session #2 - Friday, October 6 - 2:30-3:45 P.M.
1. Addiction & Science--How God Created our Brains--Dr. Ben Clark--Mallard Point Room
2. Developing Transformational Leaders for Addiction Ministry--Drew Brooks--Cardinal's Perch Room
3. Recovery Cafés: Creating Communities of Healing and Belonging--Mike Schut--Eagles Nest Room
4. Cultural Competency, Compassion & Faith: Best Practices for Supporting BIPOC Recovery Communities--Michele Butler--Hawks Ridge Room
2. Developing Transformational Leaders for Addiction Ministry--Drew Brooks--Cardinal's Perch Room
3. Recovery Cafés: Creating Communities of Healing and Belonging--Mike Schut--Eagles Nest Room
4. Cultural Competency, Compassion & Faith: Best Practices for Supporting BIPOC Recovery Communities--Michele Butler--Hawks Ridge Room
Workshop/Breakout Presenters
Rev. Dr. Ed Treat
Founder and Executive director Center of Addiction & Faith |
Rev. Dr Ed Treat has been in long-term recovery from addiction for 37 years. He received his Master of divinity and a doctorate in ministry from Luther Seminary. From 1995-2020, he was a parish pastor, serving congregations in rural Nebraska and around the Twin Cities.
Treat joined the newly formed Fellowship of Recovering Lutheran Clergy (FRLC) in 1990. In 2001, Treat became the director of the FRLC and remains such today. In 2020, he founded The Center of Addiction & Faith, as a 501©3 nonprofit. He sits on the boards of the FRLC, the RMEC, the Center of Addiction & Faith, Minnesota Mental Health Connect, and serves on the PAC of Minnesota Recovery Connection. He is author of The Pastor, a psychological novel about a small-town pastor who confronts a mystery surrounding the death of a member of his congregation. When he is not practicing social distance during a pandemic, he loves to plan group trips and travel. He and his wife Karen, also a Lutheran minister, have four grown children and one granddaughter and one grandson. |
Rev. Dr. Barry Lehman
Retired Moravian pastor |
Barry Lehman is a retired Moravian pastor, a licensed alcohol and drug counselor, and the author of several best-selling books. His own journey of recovery began in October 1988 and he has been working in the substance abuse field for thirty years. He has a Doctor of Ministry (DMin) degree in counseling from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and has worked in school-based, outpatient, and residential education and treatment settings. As a pastor he served Moravian congregations in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. In addition to books on mastering recovery, he has published a book on mastery and personal transformation as a musician, Life in Tune, and a book of his Christmas Eve stories, Christmas Grace and Light. He continues to play trumpet in a number of musical groups in Rochester, MN, where he lives with his wife, Valerie, also a retired Moravian pastor.
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Randy Anderson
Founder and Principal, Bold North Recovery and Consulting |
Randy is a person living in long term recovery and what that means to him is, he hasn’t had to use drugs, alcohol, or any mood-altering substance since January 9, 2005. After receiving the life-saving gifts of treatment and recovery, Randy completed his A.S. degree in addiction counseling at Minneapolis Community & Technical College in 2015 and worked as a full-time counselor for 2 years at RS EDEN/Eden House Recovery Services. Randy served as a Board of Directors member for the Steve Rummler Hope In March 2019 Randy decided to follow is passion and venture out on his own and started Bold North Recovery and Consulting. |
Michele Butler M.A.
Co-founder & Executive Director The Olive Branch Ministry |
Originally from Central Florida, Michele has been a lifelong learner and traveler for most of her life. In 2014, Michele received her MA in Community Counseling from Regis University in Denver, CO with a focus on trauma and addiction studies. Michele brings to Center of Addiction and Faith, over a decade of professional and personal experience within the substance abuse and mental health fields. She has a wealth of diverse experiences in direct and indirect client care, program development, evidence-based research, advocacy, and social justice.
One of Michele's mantras which she lives by simply states: "What I had, I spent; What I saved, I lost; What I gave, I have." Michele spends her free time writing, traveling, volunteering, practicing her faith and spending time with her dog, Oliver. |
Drew Brooks CEO, Faith Partners |
Drew is the Executive Director of Faith Partners, a non-profit organization providing leadership, training, and consultation for a congregational addiction team ministry model. The Faith Partners (FP) team approach is an evidence-based intervention with nearly a thousand trained congregational teams from 23 different faith traditions in 29 states. He has worked with Faith Partners since 1999 in the roles of Program Manager and Minnesota Area Coordinator as well. He also has been involved with congregational lay leadership in music, youth, caring, small group, and addiction ministries.
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Mike Schut
Recovery Café Network Communications Manager |
Mike Schut serves as the Recovery Café Network’s Communications Manager. He has spent the majority of his career working with faith communities, connecting spirituality and faith with environmental and social justice. Mike has edited/partially authored three books Simpler Living, Compassionate Life; Food and Faith; and Money and Faith. He is grateful to be supporting the Recovery Café Network and the creation of healing recovery communities across the country which embody the truths that we are all loved and have gifts to share.
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Rev. Joy Gonnerman (with Loyola)Rosecrance Jackson Centers, Certified Prevention Specialist, International Gaming Disorder Specialist
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Joy was born and raised in Northfield, Minnesota, where she, among other things, ran her own education business for 11 years and attended seminary. She was ordained into Word and Sacrament in the Lutheran Church (ELCA) in 2008. She and her son moved to Iowa in 2010 to a call to Kimballton, Iowa. Following that and a call to Pocahontas, Iowa, Gonnerman moved to Sioux City as a volunteer for Reading Corps and began working as a recovery counselor for Jackson Recovery Centers in the adolescent residential unit while also serving as the pastor for Immanuel Lutheran Church in Sioux City. She moved into her present position as a prevention specialist in 2018.
Gonnerman lives in Sioux City with her husband, Wayne Gallipo. They met on the first day of seminary 17 years ago and were married in 2019. Gallipo is the pastor of the Lutheran congregation, St Dysmas, inside the walls of the penitentiary in Sioux Falls. They share their home with a dog, two cats and a parrot. |
Rev. Al Sharp
Executive Director Clergy for a New Drug Policy |
The Rev. Alexander E. Sharp is the founder and Executive Director of Clergy for a New Drug Policy, which mobilizes clergy nationally to seek a health not punishment response to drug use.
From 1996 to 2012, Rev. Sharp served as the founding executive director of Protestants for the Common Good, a faith-based statewide organization in Illinois. In this role, he joined the early efforts to provide a second chance for those seeking to re-build their lives after prison. He was struck by how many individuals, predominantly African American and Hispanic, were incarcerated for low-level drug offenses. This led to his commitment to work toward ending the War on Drugs. |
Rev. John Sutherland
Lead Pastor Cross Lutheran Church, Roberts WI. |
Rev. John Sutherland is in his 21st year of recovery from opioids and alcohol addiction and currently serves the congregation of Cross Lutheran in Roberts. WI. Before his ministry with the saints at Cross, he enjoyed an interim post with the saints of Redeemer Lutheran in White Bear Lake. MN., after spending five years as Assistant to the Bishop of the Northwest Synod of WI. Before his ministry in the synod office, Rev. Sutherland served in Beldenville. WI, Pontiac. Il and Hong Kong. Cross Lutheran is a congregation that has embraced recovery and mental health ministry as part of her mission. John is married to Kathryn Beito and they have four children and four grandchildren.
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