Community Presentations & Workshops
Inside Out Recovery partners with the community to deliver a variety of decluttering workshops and presentations to the public, to raise awareness of the impacts of hoarding and or extreme clutter
Our Services
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Eat the Elephant 7 week Program
For people residing in a very cluttered environment, it can feel like the elephant in the room.
This 6 week consumer program provides a combination approach of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to help participants understand, not only their hoarding behaviours but also how to emotionally regulate so the work of decluttering can start.
It also helps participants who may have a lived experience of trauma to understand the link between living in clutter and the trauma they have experienced.
IOR is currently partnerships with other organisations that can assist in providing training space/conference rooms, printing workbooks and provision of morning tea. Please contact us to discuss in detail
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Buried in Treasures Community Program
15-week peer led consumer group for people who live in a hoarded or very cluttered environment. This program, developed in America, is a worldwide recognised program developed to increase a participant’s understanding of hoarding and how hoarding behaviours impact their everyday functioning.
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Clutter
1.5 hour community presentation providing an overview of hoarding
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2 Hr Decluttering Workshop
2 hour workshop to expand participants understanding, build skills and learn a variety of decluttering strategies
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3 week Decluttering Workshop
Offers increased understanding of the impacts of clutter, skills and strategies to decrease clutter and ideas to maintain internal environments
Location: Kogarah
Do you live in a very cluttered environment?
• Do you find it hard to declutter?
• Is your tenancy at risk because of your clutter?
• Does your clutter cause you to feel anxious or overwhelmed?
• Would you like to restore functionality to your home?
If you answered YES to any of these questions, then
The Eating the Elephant Support program may help you.
The Eating the Elephant program is a 7 week FREE program that will assist you:
• To understand your acquiring behaviours
• Give you strategies for managing your anxiety
• Understand how to emotionally regulate and strengthen your
overall wellbeing
• Increase your ability to declutter even in the midst of
feeling overwhelmed
• Give you strategies to declutter
Commencing: Monday 27th October & every Monday finishing 8th December 2025
Time: 10am-1pm
Kogarah Community Services, 49 English St Kogarah
To register please call Debbie 0499 326 192