{"title": "SMART Recovery", "start": "2026-11-02T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Community Pride Center", "address": "Fulton Street 1360, 11216 Brooklyn", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["wellness/addiction-recovery"], "description": "SMART Recovery is an in-person LGBTQIA+ centered meeting for self-empowered addiction recovery. It is a SMART Recovery (Self-Management & Recovery Training) meeting that applies evidence-based methods, including REBT and CBT. Guided by the 4-Point Program, discussions cover building and maintaining motivation, coping with urges, managing thoughts and behaviors, and achieving a balanced life. 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It is a Step, Tradition, and Concept meeting that rotates through a four-week cycle including a step, a tradition, a concept, and a speaker who shares the evolution of these ideals in their story. The group hopes attendees leave thinking about the A.A.'s that paved the path, curious to learn about and from them, and about their own role in becoming them for those who come after.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/aa-learned-and-humbled-71684/", "official_url": "https://gaycenter.org/event/aa-learned-and-humbled-44/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Center Support: Wellness", "start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T19:30:00-04:00", "place": "NYC LGBT Community Center", "address": "West 13th Street 208, 10011", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["society/queer", "wellness"], "description": "Center Support: Wellness is a peer-led gathering focused on whole-person well-being for LGBTQ+ adults. 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(in-person or virtual) offers short, drop-in sessions of up to 25 minutes to support immediate mental health needs, available either in person or virtually. Brooklyn Community Pride Center runs it for anyone having a challenging day, struggling with the current political climate, or simply wanting to talk about what is going on in their life, and may connect attendees to further resources or mental health support on request. Registration is required to sign up for a session.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/mental-health-check-in-in-person-or-virtual-51627/", "official_url": "https://www.lgbtbrooklyn.org/event-details/mental-health-check-in-in-person-or-virtual-2026-10-28-13-00", "image": "https://noky.io/images/291b5a6d9e951fb4a5f204bf4a10b81196086240c1a53d78b8c31328ee2b3e2b-1200.webp"}]}