Christopher Kennedy Lawford

Christopher Kennedy Lawford: Program Outlines

Public officials, Civic Leaders, Employers, Healthcare Professions, Educators, Community Leaders, Media, Faith based Communities, Law Enforcements Authorities, Local Treatment Providers, Families and Adolescents, Individuals in Recovery

Some of the topics he discusses include, but are not limited to the following:

Alcohol and Substance Abuse
With a compelling mix of personal experience and hard-earned humility, Lawford utilized his real-life experiences to focus on a number of topics, illuminating the disease of addiction, the protocol for treatment, and the path to self-discovery, personal growth.

• Overview of Addiction and Recovery Process
• Afraid to Live, Afraid to Die
• Moment of Clarity
• “I Stopped Using, Now What?”
• A New Way of Life
• Spirit and Recovery
• Relapse Prevention
• Action Following Recognition

Public Policy

• Reinvigorate the Conversation of Addiction
• Societies Reaction to the Disease & Breaking the Barriers of Stigma

Empowering Youth for Prevention

• Believe in Themselves & Their Potential
• Change Their Thought Process
• Make Informed Choices
• Realize the Impact on Decisions Made During This Period in Life
• Discriminate Between Normal Adolescent Alcohol Use & True Addiction

Family and Addiction

• End Broken Promises, Mend Broken Hearts
• Living with an Addict
• Value of the Parent/Child Bond

Healing Hepatitis C
It is estimated that over 4 million Americans and approximately 170 million persons worldwide have been exposed to Hepatitis C, and that the majority are unaware of their exposure. Chris Lawford, was one of these Americans unknowingly contracting the Hepatitis C virus during his years of drug use and had been sober for 14 years when he was diagnosed and successfully treated in 2001.

As a National spokesperson for the Hepatitis C Public Awareness Campaign, Lawford walks his audience through the process of facing the diagnosis and treatment head-on, showing them that “It is possible to get through this Hepatitis C thing—to be cured of it—without surrendering your life to it.”

Patients

• Get Tested, Get Treated, & Get Cured
• What to Expect During Treatment
• How to Communicate with Your Physician
• Finding the Support Needed
• Facing Fears & Frustrations
• Confronting the Stigma & Misfortunes

Advocacy

• Surveillance, Prevention & Treatment for All of Our Citizens
• Hepatitis C Has A Cure

Motivation/Inspiration
Lawford provides a poignant and raw reflection on the universal struggle to make sense of the world and one’s place in it while illuminating the human journey and looking to make sense of our individual and unique place. Lawford said in his bestselling memoir Symptoms of Withdrawal “The key to real happiness is recognizing that all of us are pretty much the same. The human hardwiring isn’t really that different from person to person. What’s different are our individual circumstances. Our challenge is to those reconcile circumstances with our common humanity.”

Inspiration

• Find & Enhance Your Unique Spirit
• Overcoming a Lifetime of Condition
• Understand Where You’ve Been & Where You Have to Go
• Awaken Your Passion, Purpose & Potential
• Turning Defects into Assets
• Stretch outside Your Comfort Zone
• Pain & Hardship as Touchstone for Spiritual Growth
• Your Outlook Determines Your Outcome
• Finding Purpose in Your Life… Moving from Narcissism to Service

Youth

• Resiliency in the Face of Diversity
• Feelings Aren’t Facts
• Recognizing the Signs of an Adolescents Downward Spiral
• Privilege Isn't All That It's Cracked Up To Be
• Overcoming Peer Pressure & Celebrating Individuality

Business

• Economics of Lost Productivity in the Work Place
• Recognizing Substance Abuse Disorders in the Workplace & How to Intervene
• Creating a Culture of Care in the Workplace