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No Phony Baloney! A Spirituality for Coming Alive
Richard LaMadeleine, MA, CAC
A presenttion encouraging a deeper appreciation of the authentic and vivfying nature of spirituality concretely facilitated by and lived in 12-Step Recovery, including a description of the distortions that alienate persons from religion and spirituality, a brief consideration of the place of the atheist quest in A.A. and a broader understanding of the place of "prayer" in this quest.
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About Our Presenter
Richard LaMadeleine, MA, CAC
Talbott Recovery Director of Spiritual Enrichment
Richard LaMadaleine was born of French-Canadian parents in Waterbury, CT, and along with his identical twin, is the youngest of 7 children, raised Catholic in a French-speaking community. Devoutly religious, Richard determined that he would be a priest at age 6, entered the Seminary at age 18 with the LaSalette Missionaries, obtained an M.A. in Philosophy and a B.A. in Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome, Italy) and Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology and Spirituality at Duquesne University (Pittsburg, PA). He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, served as Director of Students with LaSalette and then as parish priest in Atlanta, GA and Dagenham, Essex, England. Richard began his own personal recovery from alcoholism in 1977, leaving the priesthood in 1988 and seeking to continue to do spiritual counseling in the field of recovery. He has been the Director of Spiritual Enrichment at Talbott Recovery Campus since Dec. of 1999, along with being involved in various ministries to the LGBTQ Community and persons living with HIV/AIDS, while still maintaining membership in a Roman Catholic Church and counseling gay & lesbian couples there.
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