Alexia Jones has been doing this work for 21 years. She began using dancing with a small group of women in Tallahassee, Florida to help them maintain their recovery and find a pathway to share the message of recovery with the community.
"We used our stories to educate social workers, police officers and many more about being mothers who found themselves addicted. Not only did we share our stories we healed our hearts. My daughter is the reason I stopped using."
The mission of R2ISE Inc. is to create a safe place for those in recovery and their allies to maintain wellness through the arts.
Collaboration. Sustainability. Community. Cultural Competency. Creativity.
Maintaining health and wholeness is imperative in successfully practicing recovery. Integrating the arts into a wellness plan promotes creativity, inner healing, self-confidence and hope. Implementing artistic expression is self-directed as art is a universal language that speaks from the heart. R2ISE INC. shares creative ways to maintain wellness through interactive arts experiences with peers in recovery.
We are thankful for our Partners !!!!!!!
Creativity Conversation with Lori Teague of Emory Dance Department Emory University!!
R2ISE meets weekly. Participants arrive with instruments, voices, skits and visual art to share and collaborate on artistic expressions that center around recovery. The group is comprised of a diverse group of individuals living with mental health and substance abuse challenges from the metro Atlanta area and surrounding counties.
Participants mutually benefit from peer support by using their gifts to share what's right in their lives. R2ISE focuses on the unique artistic gift of each individual to overcome beliefs about personal and structural limitations in order to exceed previously negative experiences.
The cast spends weeks consistently collaborating, creating and developing individual artistic pieces, along with being meaningfully present to each other. This ultimately eliminates fears, builds self esteem, increases motivation and provides a platform for advocacy. Our message of hope is ART+RECOVERY =FREEDOM.