Community Program · Dorchester
The Chair Conversations™
A four-session recovery conversation series inside a working barbershop. No forms. No titles. Pull up a chair.
Session 03: What Recovery Actually Looks Like
When you picture someone in recovery, who do you see? Real faces, real stories, and connecting people to the resources that actually help.
Monday, August 3 · 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Flipping Clippers Barbershop · 483 Washington St, Dorchester
Free · Walk-ins welcome
The Premise
Meeting Health Where It Already Lives
Many people trust the barbershop more than the clinic. The Chair Conversations brings recovery support to the place trust already lives, led by Tyshaun Perryman with the Flipping Clippers barbers.
Engagement is the first intervention.
Before treatment, before a program, before a diagnosis, somebody has to show up and be heard. The series starts there.
The chair is the entry point.
A barbershop chair carries decades of trust. It asks nothing of you. That is what makes honest conversation possible.
The conversation is the treatment.
Each session opens with one question and lets the room answer it. What gets said in the circle stays in the circle.
Inside Session One
This Is What the Room Sounded Like
Session One filled the shop on July 20. Eight people, one circle, and a twenty-nine minute conversation, cut here to four.
The Conversation · 4 minutes from inside Session One. Real voices, shared with permission.
Inside Session Two
Somebody You Love
Session Two was for everyone carrying it for someone else. Grief walked in on July 27, and the room held it.
Inside Session Two · real voices, shared with permission.
The Series
Four Mondays. Four Conversations.
Every session stands on its own. Come to one or come to all four. Same chair, same time: 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM at Flipping Clippers.
We Don't Talk About It
Completed · July 20Awareness · Destigmatization
“Why is addiction the one thing we go quiet about?”
Somebody You Love
Completed · July 27Community Healing · Storytelling
“Raise your hand if addiction has touched somebody you love.”
What Recovery Actually Looks Like
Next Session · Monday, August 3Awareness · Resource Connection
“When you picture someone in recovery, who do you see?”
What We Were Self-Medicating
Monday, August 10Community Healing · Destigmatization
“Nobody just wakes up one day and decides to become addicted. So what were they running from?”
Partner With the Series
The Chair Conversations is free for everyone who walks in. Organizations and funders keep it that way, and the model is built to travel: more shops, more neighborhoods, more chairs. If your organization wants to be part of it, start the conversation.
Become a PartnerPull Up a Chair
Come for yourself. Come for somebody you love. Come because you are curious. The next conversation is Monday, August 3 at 11:30.
Save Your SeatFree · Walk-ins welcome · Flipping Clippers Barbershop, 483 Washington St, Dorchester