Our team in detail...
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Corrado offers weekly 1-2-1 of Recovery Management to clients upon completion of their residential treatment, in order to make support available while facing the challenges of re-integration in the community as well as the fluctuations of motivation to maintain change. He also facilitates workshops focusing on communication skills and assertiveness. Corrado adopts Motivational Interviewing and Relapse Prevention in his line of work, while borrowing concepts and techniques from frameworks such as Transactional Analysis and CBT, in which is trained at a Foundation Degree level.
Corrado Totti
Aftercare Recovery Manager
BSc (Hons)
Rebecca is an off-site teaching specialist delivering the Community Volunteering Qualification. Her expertise in drama, festivals and arts events corresponds with her teaching and she has a phenomenal record for learner progression and success. Her approach includes a range of techniques and the moral imperative.
Rebecca Lloyd
Education & Teaching Specialist
Jo runs Creative Arts Workshops at Chandos house on a weekly basis and also works at the Bristol Drugs Project; running a number of art workshops for schools and community groups, as well as pursuing her own creative practice.
Jo's Creative Workshop Themes at Chandos include:
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Fruit picking and making ice cream
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Designing and making furniture
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Creating Plasticine alter egos
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Making sculptures from white bread
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Dystopian public house signs
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Painting with catapults
Jo Whiteland
Creative Arts Tutor
Dave is our outdoor sports instructor and a full member of the Association of Mountaineering Instructors. His infectious love of the outdoors helps our clients to overcome mental and physical boundaries by unlocking their potential within. He provides activities in climbing, abseiling, orienteering and more, where all are enabled, whatever their capabilities.
Mountain Vision Website
Dave Talbot
Outdoor Sports Instructor
Matt Gorst
Ma(i)ntenance
Matt oversees the overall maintenance of Chandos House. From repairing taps, to overhauling entire rooms with his bare hands and an array of power tools.
Matt is a trained furniture maker and Artist; skillsets which are used to great effect when it comes to his provision of inspired solutions around the home.
After serving in the armed forces for 10 years, Steven left to take up instructing first aid, powerboating and sea survival. Steven sees potential in all clients and tries to get the best out of the men both in the house teaching first aid and on the water. He also likes to work on team ethos.
Steven Nelson
First Aid Course Faciltator
& Outdoor Activities Instructor
Hollie has recently graduated with a degree in Psychology. Originally starting at Chandos on a volunteering placement, Hollie is now a Support Worker focusing on weekly treatment planning sessions. This involves working through the course handbook in a transformational speaking circle. Hollie has previous experience volunteering in a mental health setting.
Hollie Miles
Support Worker
BSc (Hons)
Will has 15 years experience as an Art Tutor working in a variety of schools and colleges. For the past 3 years, he has been an Adult Education Tutor working for the WEA at the Carlton Centre in Weston-Super-Mare teaching Beginner’s and Intermediate Art Courses.
He runs weekly evening art classes at Chandos House, through the WEA, giving residents an opportunity to produce artworks in a variety of media.
“I believe that these classes have been of great benefit to residents during their time on the treatment programme in a variety of ways. Firstly, through exploring a variety of materials and techniques, individuals have become more aware of avenues for self-expression and developing personal creativity; all of which are valuable in the recovery process and beyond. Secondly, being able to focus on a project and see it through to completion has, I believe, helped individuals with self disciline which is also important to life beyond the programme.”
Alongside this, Will also practises his own creativity through painting and drawing both from life and in a studio setting.
Will Smith
Evening Art Classes Tutor
“On behalf of the WEA I’d like to say how pleased I am to be able to work with everyone at Chandos House and to be able to offer so many new opportunities for learning.”
Lesley has been Learning Manager for WEA in Bristol and North Somerset for the last three years. She is currently setting up courses for residents of Chandos House including Tai Chi, Horticulture, Art, Team Building, Hula Hooping and Calligraphy; with more planned through the remainder of this year.
Lesley Dale
Learning Manager For WEA
(Workers Educational Association)
David has 12 years experience working in the substance misuse field in a variety of roles. He studied at Thames Valley University Faculty of Health and Human Science, where he gained his Drugs & Alcohol National Occupational Standards (DANOS) certificate, focusing on drug trends and interventions and Motivational Interviewing. David is an experienced group facilitator and currently runs the Chandos in-house SMART groups, usually with a resident co-facilitating.
SMART (Self-Management and Recovery Training):
SMART is a mutual aid support group with uses self-empowering tools, working to a 4 point programme. The 4 points worked on in the groups are:
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Building and maintaining motivation.
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Living a balanced lifestyle.
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Managing thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
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Coping with urges and cravings.
All Chandos House residents are encouraged to attend 2 community-based SMART groups a week, and there is an in-house closed SMART group held on Sundays by a trained facilitator.
Residents are also encouraged to complete the on-line SMART training and eventually become group facilitators themselves, though this is of course optional.
Please follow the link below to the SMART website for a comprehensive view of how SMART works:
David Odell
Chandos SMART Facilitator
DANOS Certified