Information on Oneness Group’s
Addiction Rehabilitation
Centers and Offices

From minus 10 to plus 10
Oneness Group’s Addiction
Rehabilitation Centers
Our offices are located in several parts
of Japan
We feature therapeutic
community method,
global standard programs, and quality staff.

Information on Rehab Centers
and Offices

Kansai Area

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Nara GARDENimpatient, outpatient, general counselling

Founded in 2005, Nara GARDEN is the original rehab center of Oneness Group.
To help people get out of the gorge of addiction through various programs adapted from the US and other countries. They aim at fostering the awareness on one’s emotions and expressing them in healthy ways. In addition, the Group works with probation service offices and centers supporting rehabilitation after incarceration in order to curb recidivism among people with addiction.
We also provide drug-related lectures at correctional facilities (prisons and juvenile prisons), probation service offices, schools, and groups of voluntary citizens involved in judicial and welfare system.
・Licensed Disability Support Service Provider (training and support for independence and other life skills in a collective living)
・Registered Residential Facility for Rehabilitation After Incarceration (Ministry of Justice)

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Serenity Park Japan (SPJ) Naraimpatient, outpatient, general counselling

Founded in 2011, this therapeutic community mainly caters to people with gambling or online-gaming addiction. In addition to Oneness Core Programs, SPJ Nara adopts an improvised theater works (play-back theater) and assertiveness roleplays which focus on expressing one’s emotions. We offer outpatient courses and facilitate self-help meetings in Osaka, Nagoya, and Yokohama.
Additionally, we provide presentations at schools and companies, and work on recidivism prevention for people with gambling problems and with correctional facilities (Harima Rehabilitation Program Center)
・Licensed Disability Support Service Provider (training and support for independence and other life skills in a collective living)
・Registered Residential Facility for Rehabilitation After Incarceration (Ministry of Justice)

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Flower GARDENimpatient, outpatient, general counselling

Founded in 2014, Flower GARDEN is a therapeutic community for women with addiction and other life’s severe challenges. The facility provides an environment for mending the feelings hurt in their addiction; in addition to Oneness Core Programs, incorporates life skills programs including health and food, cleaning and organizing, and money management.
The center collaborates with women’s prisons and girls’ reformatory facilities for preventing recidivism.
The center also facilitates self-help meetings for women having difficulties in life and open to the local community. The residents actively participate in local events and volunteer activities. The center takes part in a nation-wide group that focuses on better life for women.
・Licensed Disability Support Service Provider (training and support for independence and other life skills in a collective living)
・Registered Residential Facility for Rehabilitation After Incarceration (Ministry of Justice)

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Rancho Unoimpatient, outpatient, general counselling

Founded in 2017, Ranch Uno is a therapeutic community centered around farming activities.
Oneness Group first started the farming project in 2010 in an effort to offer work opportunities for our alumni and people with addiction. It grew and reorganized into this enterprise. The Rancho integrates Oneness Core Programs with farming such as rice, vegetable, cage-free eggs. With support from local farmers and other compassionate groups, residents can experience soil preparation, cultivation, and sales. Our products are sold at rural roadside shopping mall and local Christian churches.
Most recently, the Ranch has begun cultivating strawberry, and aiming at hiring more people.
・Licensed Disability Support Service Provider (training and support for independence and other life skills in a collective living)

Oneness Group Osaka Officeoutpatient (weekend), general counselling

The office was set up in 2018 as a focal point of public consultation/ information.
With another name, Osaka Problem Gambling Center, the office is actively involved in various local efforts against problem gambling.
These include on-site counselling, public seminars, weekend outpatient courses on gambling and online gaming, self-help group facilitation for family members, women, and middle-age men.
The office focuses on family and community building, more fundamental efforts in addition to preventing addiction, such as parenting seminars. It holds the Family’s Day twice a year, where people of all ages can come and enjoy singing and games. A member of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, it works with agencies in Osaka Prefecture and City and provides presentations on preventing addiction at schools and companies.

Tokai Area

SERENITY PARK JAPAN NAGOYASERENITY PARK JAPAN NAGOYA

Serenity Park Japan Nagoyaimpatient, outpatient, general counselling

Founded in 2014, SPJ Nagoya is a therapeutic community and the hub of the Group’s activity in Tokai area.
The center works for people with gambling, online gaming, and alcohol use problems to facilitate their residential programs and provides weekend outpatient courses.
The center offers educational seminars in throughout Tokai area, for local government sections, NPOs helping people challenged in various ways, schools, and companies.
It works with probational service offices and NPOs supporting the poor, who often receive people with problems of addiction.

Okinawa Area

SERENITY PARK JAPAN NAGOYASERENITY PARK JAPAN NAGOYA

Serenity Park Japan Okinawaimpatient, outpatient, general counselling

The therapeutic community mainly serves for alcoholism and gambling disorder.
In addition to Oneness Core Programs, it features outdoor activities in subtropical Okinawa such as surfing and bicycling, as well as participating in local traditional events (Haarii galley racing).
Okinawa has severe alcoholism locally and the center is contributing to reducing its harm. It works with local authority for public education and staff training, other agencies for treatment and rehabilitation, probational service offices for preventing recidivism, and providing presentations at high schools and colleges.
The organization has facilities in Naha City and Nanjo City.
・Licensed Disability Support Service Provider (training and support for independence and other life skills in a collective living)
・Registered Residential Facility for Rehabilitation After Incarceration (Ministry of Justice)

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Okinawa GARDENimpatient, outpatient, general counselling

Founded in 2016, Okinawa GARDEN is a therapeutic community that mainly treats drug and alcohol use disorder. It is located in Nanjo City, about 1 hour away from Naha, the Island’s capital, with more distinct subtropical atomosphere. In addition to Oneness Core Programs, the center has a selection of programs from surfing and cycling to Haarii traditional galley racing to woodwork activities. It also collaborates with the probational service office and judicial rehabilitation center for supporting convicted people with addiction.
・Licensed Disability Support Service Provider (training and support for independence and other life skills in a collective living)
・Registered Residential Facility for Rehabilitation After Incarceration (Ministry of Justice)

Kanto Area

Oneness Group Yokohama Officeoutpatient (weekend), general counselling

An office open to the public outside of our rehab centers started in 2017
With its alias: Yokohama Problem Gambling Center, it is involved in local efforts on gambling disorder in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture and Tokyo area.
It offers on-site counselling/ consultation, public seminars, workshops for helping professions, weekend outpatient courses for the people with the problems, family’s circle, and addiction counselor training courses.
In addition, the office works with other recovery organizations and public agencies for creating a new framework of measures on addiction-related problems.

Flowchart from entrance to graduation

A diversity of programs on the backbone of
therapeutic community

Admission

  • Stage1

    Motivation and programs
    for
    rebuilding daily life
    (hygiene, time and money management)

    • Support from senior peers
    • Special group work for
      newcomers
  • Stage2

    Deepening the
    self-awareness
    and
    exploring the background
    of own addiction

    • Encounter Groups
    • Recovery Dynamics
      <12-Step Works>
      Support for making the inventory and amends
    • Supporting newcomers
    • Other psychotherapeutic modalities such
      as Neurolinguistic Programing (NLP)
  • Stage3

    Working on relapse prevention and
    preparing to return to the community

    • Relapse Prevention (Gorsky Method)
    • Job transition (half-way) program and
      group work for people in this stage
    • Leader roles of various functions in the rehab
Graduation
After-care Programs
Participation in workshops, Alumni’s Day

A day on campus

Residents live in the Houses (group living about 10 people and some staff) and commute to the day-care center 5 days a week for the programs.

Residents cooperate in chores like cooking, cleaning, and laundry and have structured days.

A senior resident becomes a Big Brother or Sister, a main caretaker for the newcomer. Staff members support this family-like living.

Newcomers may be confused and feel anxious in the beginning but soon get use to this communal living. By spending the day together, they quickly understand and support each other.

  • Eating together in fun

  • Cooking yummy food
    everyday

  • Each day is structured with
    diverse programs

  • 8:30Wake-up and breakfast
    at the House
  • 9:00Cleaning the day-care center
  • 10:00Morning gathering
  • 11:00Morning program
  • 12:00Lunch & break
  • 13:30Afternoon program
  • 15:00Homework, individual
    counselling, etc
  • 16:00Evening gathering
  • 17:00Dinner
  • 18:00Self-help group &
    worker’s groupReturning to the House
    Self-care
    (lights-off at 11 p.m.)
  • Eating together in fun

  • Cooking yummy food
    everyday

  • Each day is structured with
    diverse programs

  • Peers are always
    around
    to listen to your stories

  • Relationship with dogs is also
    precious opportunity

  • Barbeque going wild

Therapeutic Community Method

The problem is the problem, not the person.

When the Oneness Group started its operation, there was virtually no structured recovery support model for addiction in Japan. Self-help group where cross-talk or feedback is not allowed is the only means except for a very few professionals who tried some methods. Public awareness on addiction is limited to ideas like problem of one’s own, lack of self-will, or utter madness.

In Western countries where the issues of addiction emerged much earlier, treatment methods have been developed that help people get out of addiction. Their results have contributed to fostering the public awareness that addiction is treatable by appropriate programs and support.
Therapeutic Community (TC) model is one method effectively adopted in the US and Europe. Amongst all, Amity Foundation, located in Arizona, California, and New Mexico, became recognized among people involved in recovery support.

Oneness Group Founder YAZAWA Yuji, along with some staff, travelled to the United States and stayed on its campus. Through sitting in their program sessions as well as sharing the community life, Yuji and the group inhaled the Mana of TC and brought it back to our communities. Amity and we continued the partnership. Recently, their trainer visited Flower GARDEN, our women’s community, and facilitated a series of Amity programs for residents and staff.

In the TC’s communal environment, psychotherapeutic components work integratively and transforms the way people think and operate.
Aside from the medical model, TC enables step-by-step problem solving and eventually high-quality recovery and human growth, not just quitting the object of addiction, psycho-social approaches with mutual respect among individuals and interactive group dynamics. Our slogan, “Recovery from -10 to +10,” is materialized through these ideas of TC.

This is a part of what we read out every day in the morning staff meeting that is excepted from Therapeutic Community Curriculum published by US SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

The TC is distinguished from other treatment approaches by the use of the community as the primary method of treatment to bring about positive prosocial and psychological changes in individuals. In a TC

The daily regimen and social milieu of the TC are designed to facilitate emotional healing, social learning, and changes in behavior patterns and self- identity, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

All community members (staff members and residents) create a social learning environment.

TC residents experience being in a supportive familylike atmosphere that allows them to heal emotionally and change their lifestyles and self-identities.

Recovery occurs through interactions with peers and through the self-help and mutual self- help learning process.