NADA Community Connection Hour
The Community Connection Hour is a virtual monthly event hosted by NADA Registered Trainer and Licensed Acupuncturist Victoria Taylor and selected guest speaker(s). During the hour we explore different topics in the NADA community and provide opportunities for education, connection and support for our members.
The Connection Hour is held on Zoom and is typically for members only. They are about an hour long, usually on the 1st Wednesday of the month, 8 PM (EDT). Registration is required.
The recording of these events have been reported to us as a good resource for our members.
Upcoming Connection Hours
Past Connection Hours and Membership Cafés
April 2023 Community Connection Hour – Beads and Seeds: Expanding our Reach
NADA practitioners share resources and applications of using beads, seeds, and magnets as a Community outreach tool. https://youtu.be/kK1iqEz138U
March Community Connection Hour – ADS Self Care, Nourishing our Yin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBbO5-T9zOo
February 2023 Community Connection Hour: Points to Change Watch Party
December 22 Community Connection Hour – Peer support and acudetox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33LWKmCs5Qo
November 2022 Community Connection Hour
https://youtu.be/_h_vlh_gUos
Sleep Mix Tea – August 2022 Community Connection Hour
https://youtu.be/ez_pdUWgYLg What about the Tea? Everything stops for tea. By Buchanen The Sleep Mix tea has been a part of NADA's offerings since the Lincoln days. Find out about the ingredients, the history, and various uses of our legacy tea. This is a recording of...
July 2022 Community Connection Hour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Um7bfuYfik
May 2022 Community Connection Hour
https://youtu.be/owFLh0D2ZwU
April Community Connections | Acudetox in Appalachia
October 2021 Membership Café
In this conversation we followed up and deepened the questions from Healing Inside Out: Health & Recovery in the Carceral State. We heard from speakers, recapped the event, and viewed a clip of The Castle.
September 2021 Membership Café featuring David Eisen
September 2021 Membership Café featuring David Eisen View the Recording https://youtu.be/VE2v3iofQqM About the Event David Eisen is a founding member of NADA and current Training Committee Co-Chair. In this conversation we talked to David about how he came to Lincoln...
Celebrating Women in NADA
May 2021 Membership Café: Celebrating Women in NADA View the Recording https://youtu.be/3E0QvmaZd7k About the Event Together we learned about the first peer-based recovery program for pregnant and parenting women at Lincoln Recovery Center called SISTERS, active in...
Launching and Running a NADA Program
Launching & Running a NADA Program In April 2021 NADA hosted a NADA Membership Café featuring guest speaker Ruth Ackerman. VIEW THE RECORDING https://youtu.be/9-H_GjHsTEE About Ruth Ackerman Ruth Ackerman is the founder of Project Recovery in Santa Barbara,...
Integrating NADA into Grief Support
Integrating NADA into Grief Support In March 2021 NADA hosted a NADA Membership Café featuring guest speakers Cheyenne Luzader, Lars Wiinblad, and Pia Aaes. view the recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHkjMOIgsLo About the Event Though historically used for...
Looking Forward: NADA’s Role in Genuine Social Change
Looking Forward: NADA's Role in Genuine Social Change In February 2021 NADA hosted a special open NADA Membership Café featuring guest speaker Walter Bosque (NADA Trainer & Lincoln Detox Collective Member). VIEW THE RECORDING https://youtu.be/IIJLRFL4xzw Event...
NADA Launches Youth Committee
At our February 2021 Membership Café Looking Forward: NADA's Role in Genuine Social Change NADA launched a Youth Committee to ensure we are bringing this people's medicine to the next generation. Under 35? We invite you to get involved. Fill out this Youth Committee...
Membership Café with the Grassroots Committee
August 19th at 10 AM MDT / 12 PM EDT We'll hear from members of the Grassroots Committee and their current work, which has been focused on deepening relationships with the Movement for Black Lives on the local level. Email Taneha Watts, membership coordinator, with...
Membership Café with Ken Carter, NADA President
"The NADA Spirit is a spirit of service." - Ken Carter, NADA President In June 2020 the NADA community gathered virtually for a special NADA Membership Café with recently elected NADA President, Ken Carter. Ken shared his reflections on ancestral healing, NADA's...
Membership Café with Ralph & Nancy
In May 2020 the global NADA community gathered virtually for a special open NADA Membership Café with Ralph Raben (Director, NADA Germany) & Nancy Smalls (Founder, Maternal Substance Abuse Services, Lincoln Recovery Center). VIEW THE RECORDING ...
Membership Café: Regional Meetings
Special Note: This Café was held before the COVID-19 Global Pandemic affected our ability to gather in person in the United States. Please reach out to the office for updated information on the 2020 Regional Meetings. The NADA Membership Café is hosted and facilitated...
Adapting in Response to COVID-19 Part II
For April's Membership Café, we continued the conversation started at the March Membership Cafe: Adapting in Response to COVID-19 by bringing together two more NADA providers who serve as leaders in their communities. This month we heard from Victoria Taylor...
NADA, Community Care & COVID-19
Adapting in Response to COVID-19 For this monthly Membership Café we held a community conversation with NADA members Adela Nieves Martinez (Detroit, MI), Stacy Sayre (Denver, CO), and Claudia Voyles (Austin, TX). Each a leader in their communities, they...
NADA Emergent Strategy Book Club 2019
The NADA Membership Café is hosted and facilitated on the third Wednesday of every month by membership coordinator, Taneha Watts. At each Café, we hear from special guests and make space for questions, conversation, and connection....
Membership Café with Nancy Smalls
This Membership Cafe was held on December 11, 2019 with special guest & NADA matriarch Nancy Smalls. Nancy founded the Maternal Substance Abuse Services program at Lincoln Recovery Center. She worked at Lincoln for 40 years and retired in 2012. The NADA Membership...