Welcome to our new volunteers

The Outreach Foundation is happy to welcome our new volunteers Ben Storjohann and Tim Stoklossa to our team. Ben will be joining our computer team and Tim will be joining our counselling team. We are excited to see what we will achieve together and cannot wait to see the impact we have on our community.

A message from Tim

My name is Tim Stoklossa and I am from Hannover, Germany. I graduated
High School in June and in August I came to South Africa to work at the
Outreach Foundation and to discover the country and the culture.
In Germany I sang in a choir and played guitar. Also I worked in a youth
group in my church.
In my few days here I got to know a lot of people. They all
were very obliging and were glad to meet me. I am very happy to be here
and I hope to gather many new experiences here.

A message from Ben

My name is Ben Storjohann and I am from Frankfurt, Germany. I just graduated High School and I am now taking a gap year. I’m really grateful to be able to work at the Lutheran Outreach Foundation. The amount of courses and opportunities to grow, that are offered here at the Foundation truly amaze me. I’m loving the country, the culture and the people so far and can’t wait to get to know the area and my colleagues even further. Thank you for being so welcoming and I hope we can create some awesome memories in the next year together.

Recovery Coaching

Recovery Coaching is about:

• Rebuilding recovery capital in the physical, mental, emotional, social & spiritual areas of your life.
• Developing a personalised recovery plan in line with your unique goals, dreams & aspirations.
• Setting achievable, long-term goals and developing short-term action plans to achieve them within predetermined time frames.
• Identifying harmful triggers that could result in lapse or relapse, and learning to deal with these issues in daily life with the use of forward-focused and solutions-driven tools and techniques.
• Learning about the physiological and neurological elements of substance and behavioural abuse disorders, and what the major causes of addiction.
• Understanding and challenging faulty, habitual thought patterns & behaviours, and replacing them with improved ways of dealing with potentially difficult situations.
• Establishing realistic, personal boundaries to build strong, interdependent relationships in your personal and professional life.
• Finding the answers to your personal truth and living an empowered, authentic life.
• Working in a collaborative, accountable relationship with a coach to achieve a more balanced, holistic approach to long-term wellness.
• Creating a safe space to explore possibilities and the availability of personal and community resources to aid sustained recovery.

Recovery Coaching is not about:

• Treating addiction…recovery coaching operates within the wellness paradigm and is not addiction treatment.
• Revisiting the past and the causes of addiction…it’s about moving forward in a solutions’-driven, goal-orientated way.
• Being given advice and answers to your questions…you have all the answers you need inside yourself.
• Being told what to do and how to do it…the long-term goals you choose and short-term plans you make will be your own.
• Holding onto guilt, shame & anger…it’s about letting go of the past, embracing forgiveness and learning to live in the present.