Enjoy a sober vacation at Canyon Ranch® and attend talks from nationally renowned recovery professionals as they share their personal stories and expertise
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Featured Recovery Speakers & Events
Speaker dates are tentative pending Covid-19 updates. Details on times and locations of talks are posted four weeks in advance at www.canyonranch.com. In addition to their presentations, our featured speakers will lead the Open 12-Step Recovery Meeting each day during their residency.
Jenni Schaefer | Nov 15-22, 2020
Jenni Schaefer is a bestselling author, popular speaker and a Senior Fellow with The Meadows. Her books include Life Without Ed; Goodbye Ed, Hello Me; and Almost Anorexic. She is currently writing a book about fighting through post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD.) She lives in Austin, Texas, where she enjoys singing and songwriting. Learn more about her at http://www.jennischaefer.com.
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Rev. Kim K. Crawford Harvie | Dec. 26-30th, 2020
The Reverend Ms. Kim K. Crawford Harvie was raised in Concord, Massachusetts and graduated with honors from Middlebury College (Vermont) and Harvard Divinity School. Ordained into the Unitarian Universalist ministry in 1984, she spent the following year as an intern at First Parish in Brewster, Massachusetts. In 1985, she was called to the Universalist Meeting House in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which she served until 1989. In 1987, she received the Maximilian Kolbe Award for Community Service and, in 1988, she was named Provincetown Citizen of the Year. In 1989, she was called to Arlington Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts, where she continues to serve as Senior Minister.
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In Boston, Rev. Crawford Harvie co-founded two non-profit organizations: In the Best Interests of the Children, dedicated to providing educational and material assistance to young people and families affected by pediatric HIV/AIDS; and The Shared Heart, a traveling exhibition and book of photographs (released in 1997 by William Morrow) of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teenagers with accompanying text in their own words, designed to support the Massachusetts Safe Schools Initiative.
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In 1992, Rev. Crawford Harvie was the recipient of Harvard Divinity School's First Decade Award. In the same year, Rev. Crawford Harvie also received distinguished alumnae awards from Middlebury College and Concord Carlisle High School. In 1996, the Legacy Foundation named Rev. Crawford Harvie Uncommon Woman of the Year. In 1999, Rev. Crawford Harvie was named one of ten delegates from the United States to Women Waging Peace, an international women's peacemaking initiative. In 2002, the Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston honored her as one of 100 outstanding women in the Commonwealth. In 2004, Rev. Crawford Harvie performed the first same-sex wedding in a church in the United States.
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