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  • £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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Participans' informal interviews


Interview with female 'E'. recovering from drugs and abuse

After a life time of drugs and abuse 'E' talks about her life changing experience with Sailaday Ok.
'This is the first time in my life I feel OK, the first time i have been able to express my feelings as happy, incredible, everything has changed about.'
Our programme of therapeutic sessions at sea can change people live we seem to be able to achieve in a few days what some struggle with for a very long time.

 

 
Part 2 of interview with Carmen and how SOK session has changed her life

Part 2 of interview with Carmen and how the therapeutic wilderness therapy session of 4 days and night has changed her life. The experience supported her as she worked with the distress of early traumas in her life. The experience triggered large changes which she continued to work within the therapeutic setting of the residential when she returned there. The subsequent session with sailaday ok enhanced this therapy as she prepares to return to a life outside the residential.

 
Part 1 of interview with Carmen and how SOK session has changed her life

Part 1 of interview with Carmen and how the therapeutic wilderness therapy session of 4 days and night has changed her life. The experience supported her as she worked with the distress of early traumas in her life. The experience triggered large changes which she continued to work within the therapeutic setting of the residential when she returned there. The subsequent session with sailaday ok ehanced this therapy as she prepares to return to a life outside the residential.

 
How this exeperience has helped with changes to Sam's life

Interview with Sam and listen to his tale of the changes he has been a to make in his recovery, life, after having the sailaday experience. See the group perform and sail around the wilder parts of Cornwall.  

 
 
Interview Alison May 2011

Interview with recovering alcoholic Alison in May 2011 she describes how sailaday ok helped change her life, the experience was a catalyst for changes she had not seen as possible before. She talks of using sailing as a metaphor for recovery which makes it easier to understand the dynamics of change.

  

 
Interview with Leo

Interview with Leo a participant with Sailaday ok and he talks about the benefits of the experience and how it will help him long term in his recovery and how he has learnt that he has strengths and skills he was not aware of. He talks about how the Sailaday ok expereince has changed his life.  
 
Stop trying and just do it.

The harder one tries can be counterproductive. Stop trying and just do it. Entails some degree of letting go. What C recognises is she now achieves more with less effort, with ease. Stop struggling. 

 
Interview Life Change in attitude

Life Change in attitude due to realization that one does not have look for something enormous to help change your life but something very small can do the job. “Drugs were the biggest thing I could find to change me, now I don’t need to look for something bigger than me.”

 
Fab found peace
He talks about this first time experiencing peace after a lifetime of crime and drugs, he never thought it possible. Extraordinary change in attitude. Realization that he can be at peace without drugs and alcohol.
 
I can’t be content with being content

Informal interview.   “Its a brand new world. I can’t be content with being content. What is enough?”

 
D interview new found trust

Interview with D, about being trusted to helm the yacht

D talks about what a live changing experience it was being trusted to helm the yacht and consequently realizing that she does not really trust herself and now feels more trusting and trustworthy.