Events, Courses, & Workshops
Upcoming Events
​Fall 2025 Addiction Recovery Support Program
9 Week In person Addiction Recovery Support Program
Begins Monday, Oct 20th, 2025, running consecutively for nine Mondays
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm
Location: Parkland Wellness Centre, 180 Century Rd, Spruce Grove, AB
Parkland Wellness is pleased to open applications to our Addiction Recovery Support Program, T.H.O.R.(Time To Hammer Out Recovery).
What: This is a 9 week, in-person, targeted and personalized program to formulate a structured plan of recovery. The goal is for you to walk away with your personalized plan, which allows you to find meaning and purpose in your life again outside of the cycle of addiction. The T.H.O.R. program is a dynamic approach to recovery that is evidence-based, experiential, psychoeducational and interactive. ( The group allows for 8 people maximum and may run again in the new year of 2026 if there is a high demand)
When: Beginning Monday, October 20th, 2025 from 7-8:30 pm, this program runs for nine consecutive Mondays and is NOT a drop-in support style group. Your nine-week commitment is required, as the program is cumulative(No session on Monday, October 13th).
Where: In person, Parkland Wellness Center, 180 Century Road, Spruce Grove, AB
Your investment: $50 application fee. Once you have applied for the program, you will be contacted by the group facilitators for an interview to ensure that the program best meets your needs and is suited for your present situation.
After the interview process, If the program is not a good fit for you, you will be reimbursed your application fee. There are no reimbursements issued after this time.
*NOTE: to pay $50 by etransfer from your bank website, use: etransfer@parklandwellnesscenter.com
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Your Facilitators
John Millett, Associate Addiction Counsellor, MA
As John’s Masters degree thesis, he wrote a manual that is an approach to recovery called T.H.O.R. (Time to Hammer Out Recovery), which will be utilized in the program. John utilizes both TTM (Transtheoretical Model of Behavioral Change) and Motivational Interviewing in his treatment approaches.
John's competencies come from years of training and experience. He was born in London, England in the late 50s, experiencing the cultural tensions of being a son to an Irish father and English mother. He served in the Canadian Armed Forces during the Cold War Era as a Stoker (marine engineer), aboard Canadian Destroyers. He became a problematic drinker in the military, and it remained with him as he reintegrated as a civilian. He had a spiritual awakening that set his life course towards sobriety and found his call to be a support in the liberation of others captured by substance use.
John is an Ordained Minister, Life Coach and Chaplain, has extensive training in addiction recovery, and is licensed as an Associate Addiction Counsellor with the Canadian Addiction Counsellors Certification Federation. He has served as a Recovery Support Worker with AHS, in-patient psychiatry, at St. Therese Hospital, as a one-to-one worker, group therapy facilitator and Recreational Therapist. John co-led Celebrate Recovery for several years. He is passionate about music, physical fitness, and Harley-Davidson motorcycles.
Torene Neuman, Co-Facilitator, Director of Community Helps Program, Co-ordinator, Late Night Cafe
Torene has numerous years of experience working alongside marginalized and unsheltered communities. She recognizes the need for formal, inexpensive, and accessible addiction recovery interventions as a way to help lead community members to greater meaning and purpose in their lives. Torene is a passionate and compassionate advocate for those who seek betterment in their lives. She looks forward to co-facilitating this dynamic program and being a witness to your transformation and empowerment.
Grief Recovery Support Group FALL 2025
Begins Monday, October 20th, 2025 - December 8th, 2025
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Parkland Wellness Centre, 180 Century Rd, Spruce Grove, AB
Loss and grief is a deeply painful, lonely, and frequently isolating experience. We often feel unprepared and ill-equipped to deal with our emotions and experiences with any form of loss. Most of us have not been taught how to heal our emotional pain after loss. Rather, we are told well-meaning myths and misinformation such as to “move on”, “keep busy”, “be strong”, and “time will heal” which often keeps us stuck or isolated in our pain.
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Among the many normal reactions after loss, we may experience emotional and physical exhaustion, reduced concentration, numbness, isolation, changes in eating and sleeping, and a rollercoaster of emotional energy. The hopeful news is that grief does not have to be an experience of lifelong suffering. There are actionable tools that can help you to move beyond the pain and heal your heart.
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The Grief Recovery Method is an evidence-based program that helps bring hope to people around the world. During the 8 weeks of the program, we will take several small intentional actions to move through the pain of loss and grieving, become more present, and recapture a sense of meaning and purpose.
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*PLEASE NOTE* This group is offered to residents of the Tri Region(Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Parkland County. If once we have all tri region residents registered and have openings, we may be able to include outside residents.
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Your facilitator is Cyndi Millett, who is a Registered Psychologist, Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, and EMDR Clinician.
Cyndi will be calling each registrant before the start date to ensure the program is a good fit for your needs. If you find the program doesn't fit your needs, your $50 fee will be reimbursed.
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This is not a 'Grief Share' style drop-in group and a commitment to attend all sessions is required.
Materials Provided: The Grief Recovery Handbook
Your Investment: $50 non-refundable deposit
If you have any questions or require any more information, please contact Cyndi Millett.
cmpsychhope@gmail.com
ELL Course (English Learning Courses)
Wednesdays, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Intermediate
Location: Parkland Wellness Centre, 180 Century Rd, Spruce Grove, AB
Our formal ELL courses are especially suited to pre-beginner and beginner English speakers and continue into an intermediate level. Our main goal is to help prepare students for what may be a more intense English classroom setting in other schools and organizations. If you want to learn English but still feel very intimidated in a more formal school setting, our classes may be just right for you. We do offer one-on-one tutoring for more advanced students with specific goals in mind.
If you are interested in ELL courses, please contact us and we will be happy to register you in the appropriate course.