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Donations of any amount are always a great help to a small charity like SailadayOK.
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Here's a few examples of how your donation can help:

  • £40 will pay the fuel bill and mooring fees for a 4 day/night session
  • £100 will pay for one person for a 4 day/night session 
  • £20 will buy by the food and provisions for the whole crew for a day.

Our Mission

                This is what defines Sailaday OK, what we do and hope to achieve .

  • The Sailaday Ok experience is an adventure/wilderness therapy at sea.
  • We work with those recovering from addictions, abuse and trauma.
  • The primary aim is for the participants to have a positive experience of themselves.
  • This experience gives them tools to help their completion of treatment and eventually re-integration into the community.
  • This is a therapeutic, healthy, physical, educational, self-esteem enhancing and enjoyable pursuit.

What We Do

Invite you to participate in.....

  • A  therapeutic  adventure sailing activity
  • For 3 to 5 days and nights at sea with a  qualified therapist and skipper
  • Sailing from Falmouth along the beautiful south coast of Cornwall
  • We work with about 50/60 persons a year.

 

Primary Aims and Outcomes

  • Participants  report feeling physically healthier and feel more able/  responsible for taking care of themselves physically
  • Participants report improved self esteem, improved self reliance, and increased sense of hope.
  • Participants  report benefits from the experience of team work and co-operation and a more
    •         positive attitude toward relationships
  • Participants in Sailaday OK are more likely to complete treatment
  • Sailaday OK will offer volunteering opportunities to people from the wider community;
    •         and will also provide mentoring to previous participants.

Volunteer Vacancies

We are currently looking for people who can help us in the following areas:

  • Boat Maintenance during the winter
  • Office Administration
  • Urgently wanting volunteers to build a team for 'Events'

      manning a stall to increase awareness and collect funds.

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Published Articles & Presentations
A Selection of the articles and presentations by the SailadayOK team

Article; International Stress management association

International Stress management association

by Sue Parker Hall

Sailaday OK: Analysis of the role of a marine wilderness therapeutic activity in stress management

A trauma approach to stress is taken here; it is conceptualised as an affect regulation difficulty, the best response an individual can make because they are currently „unable to process…life‟s experiences‟ (Parker Hall, 2008).

It is the Sailaday OK project‟s contribution to this strengthening of the integrated Adult ego state that can substantially reduce the potential for enduring stress and subsequent addiction because the individual‟s capacity to process and come to terms with their many ongoing life experiences is enhanced.

stress_article.pdf

 
 
Presentation BACP Conference

Richard Lannowe Hall   – 5IATC Abstract Submission 2009.

 Your name:                                         Mr.  Richard Lannowe Hall BA

Other author(s):                                  Ms. Sue Parker Hall MSC MBACP (accred)

Institution/Affiliation/Workplace:         Sailaday Ok  charity  1116405

Your professional role:                        Therapist and RYA accredited skipper

           Analysis of a marine wilderness therapy for recovering addicts

This research uses theoretical concepts,  from Transactional Analysis (TA), to consider how a /3/4/5 day marine wilderness therapy programme aboard a yacht managed by charity Sailaday OK, integrates the healing potential of the natural environment and psychotherapy to provide an experiential learning opportunity that elegantly supports recovery from addiction. The  work is monitored and evaluated. This  research was compiled from informal interviews and feedback from participants  the agencies and care teams. The results are also monitored by specialist trustees and form quantitative and qualitative evaluations .edinborough_pres.pdf

 
 
Sailaday OK:Analysis of a marine wilderness therapeutic activity

Addiction Journal pub 2008

Sue Parker Hall

1576 words (not including references)

This article uses theoretical concepts, mainly from Transactional Analysis (TA), to consider how a 2/3/4 day marine wilderness therapy programme aboard Physis, the 33ft Westerly yacht of Sailaday OK, a Cornwall based charity, integrates the healing potential of the natural environment and psychotherapy to provide an experiential learning opportunity that elegantly supports recovery from addiction. The project currently accepts referrals from secondary treatment centres and aftercare services.

 addiction_today_article.pdf