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Anger Management 22 different exercises, covering a wide spectrum of anger related activities, including: Self -Monitoring, Assessing Your Anger, Anger Thinking, Past Anger, Family Anger, Anger at Work, Knowing What Ticks You Off... and more. Skills Inventory Worksheets encompassing 36 separate categories cover skills relating to: Data, People, Things and Situations. Residents rate each one by numerical value (1-5) regarding their experience, effectiveness, and the enjoyment of each category. Ending up with the areas where they are strongest (6 of them) and finally comparing it to a matrix of 23 broad occupational categories the resident is able to determine his/her skill level in their chosen career areas. "Developing the Dream" Exercise Starting with "Configuration of Personality" information developed by Emory S. Bogardus, areas of our personality are explored five years ago, today, and where we want it to be five years from now. A worksheet helps lay out 12 critical areas of life and dreams and/or goals in 5 yrs, 1 yr., and 30 day windows, with plans on how to get there, utilizing the Slight Edge success system (Values > Philosophy > Attitude > Actions > Results > Quality of Life). This 3-4 week series is based on Dr. Darrell Terry's highly touted goal setting and self esteem building techniques, designed to last a lifetime.
Understanding Recurring Actions This study guide is designed to help rethink past assumptions so that the resident begins to perceive a greater lesson or purpose behind all of his/her achievements, failures, or challenges. "How did I get my life this messed up, and why do I keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again, all the time expecting different results?" By beginning to adapt a positive, curious, conscious, adventuring attitude, we learn that we can make our world look as we would like it to look. This twelve page packet of questions includes a time line of significant events and people in the residents life. This helps isolate recurring patterns of negative behavior and their cause or starting point. Relationship Skills - Listening It's hard to really listen to other people. It's easier to space out, to rehearse your reply, to filter the content for danger signs, to collect evidence for your own opinions, to pass judgment, and so on. But listening is the most important of all the communication skills that can create and preserve intimacy. When you listen well, you understand others better, you stay closely in tune, you enjoy the relationship more, and you know without mind reading why others say and do things. There is a lot more to listening than merely being quiet while other people talk. Real listening is distinguished by your intention. If your intention is to understand, enjoy, learn from, or help your partner, then you are really listening,and as a result, helping yourself be heard/understood as well. For many people, real listening is rare. They indulge in pseudo listening. This is when your intention is not to understand, enjoy, learn, or help. You will gain experience identifying and working with blocks that you are using to avoid listening to others. We will cover: Mindreading, Advising, Rehearsing, Sparring, Filtering, Being Right, Judging, Derailing, Daydreaming, and Placating. Our Baggage Carts - The Shame we carry We all seem to come into recovery carrying a lot of emotional baggage. We also seem to have created a lot of recent wreckage that only adds to the weight of what we already were carrying, and that added weight, frequently, proves to be the actual breaking point for us just before we asked someone to help us. There are many areas that contribute to us all being being in recovery. One of the most common and sometimes one of the largest issues for us to handle is our family of origin. Let me first state that there are no perfect families, just as there are no perfectly adjusted individuals. Yes, the physical and emotional environment of our past has an effect on us, however, it has been demonstrated again and again that we do have the ability to change the way we look at that old stuff (the bags we carry), decide what we want from our lives (sort it out) and do something about it (get a real life). It's why we are here. Denial is the central organizing principle we work around in addictions, and while this is true shame is more often the phenomena that people need to recover from. Shame is the belief that there is something inherently wrong with who or what we are. However, I believe the truth of the matter is that shame is a belief and not a feeling. The more you have experienced shame, the more disconnected you are from your emotional self. When we begin to move out of our shame is when we begin to experience the painful feelings, that surrounded the abandonment that ultimately created our shame in the first place. Shame is a belief there is something fundamentally wrong with who we are. Review Week Relapse Triggers and Core Values worksheet - By this time the individual's original values and triggers have been clarified in greater depth. This exercise allows a formal second look at these areas in order to add to, take away from, or further adjust, according to what he/she has learned since starting this series. Also any other work that needs to be further clarified is addressed/explored. AA Step Study - Monday 7:00pm - 8:30pm One step is addressed each week, in order, consisting of a description of the step, an explanation of what the step is for, and how to work the step. This is followed by a worksheet(s) asking a series of questions with space for answers to each question. Our intent here is to expose each client to what goes into doing thorough step work. At the same time, we encourage a dialogue between a resident's sponsor and our program to ensure we are all moving in the same direction and in synch with the sponsor's specific program. The sponsor and client are regarded as a long term relationship. Our relationship with the client, though formative, is a temporary one and consists of mostly seed planting and education on what works and what doesn't work to facilitate the resident in developing better coping skills in the future.
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