SMART Recovery Tool: Role-Play/Rehearsal
POINT 2: Cope with Urges
SMART meetings are safe places to role-play. Other people act the parts of the people you anticipate will challenge you in high-risk situations. The meeting facilitator can help set up a role-play.
Here’s a sample:
- Show your role-play partner how you think a difficult person will behave.
- Your partner plays the difficult person while you play yourself in the situation.
- Once you finish the scenario, swap roles, and do it again.
- The people watching the role-play can then show you how they might handle the same situation differently by playing your part.
Consider role-playing challenges associated with events like holiday parties, weddings, and other special events.
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Role-Playing
Want some great ammunition to overcome urges in certain circumstances you suspect may be problematic (dates, weddings, football games, etc.)? SMART Recovery has the great role-playing tool to help you map out future urge scenarios in your mind, and then play them out with a friend in advance so that you can rehearse the urge situations and create the most desirable non-relapse outcome.