Curriculum are designed to be taught in groups of 7-9 and each volume equals between 90-110 contact hours. Tasks (lessons) vary in length, but most can be completed in a single 60-90 minute session. We recommend one Demonstrator guide per group- and each Demonstrator guide is reusable for subsequent classes. Quantity discounts are available, please e-mail for details mespinoza@extensionsllc.com

Beginnings Family Dynamics- Student Workbook $17.95 This curriculum is intended to begin the introspective process of examining how current social skills (or lack thereof) were formed and developed in the context of the social environment during formative years. The theme throughout these modules is that each person becomes a composite of the social influences around them. Individuals have the ability to embrace or reject patterns of behaviors handed down to them, but only after they identify them. The intent is to introduce students to the concept that it is within their control to make choices that will positively affect their influences on younger generations. Alice Miller’s work is examined and personalized antidote messages are developed. Participants identify role models, teachers and other social influences (both positive and negative). The intention is not to excuse present behavior or choices, but to bring to consciousness the factors that influence decision-making. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Vocabularies of Violence & Affection- Student Workbook $17.95 This curriculum develops the theme of emotional reflexes that result from stress and conflict. The material is divided into two parts: 1) Conflict and violation, and 2) Reconciliation and restoration. Students identify situations in which they have developed conditioned responses to stress and focus on their ability to honestly articulate them. Exercises are provided regarding honesty as a prerequisite to truthfully examining personal violation of others. This curriculum facilitates personal investigation into the role that violence has played in each student’s life, whether as a witness, victim, predator or instigator. Violence that people have experienced, witnessed and participated in is one of the most difficult subjects to disclose, and if repressed, has long lasting effects on behavior. Students engage in exercises that promote development of mediation and validation skills within their class. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Emergence- Student Workbook $17.95 Many students who use this workbook will have been discussed,argued about, demonized, marginalized, excluded from society, included in statistics, tried, transported, documented, fingerprinted, incarcerated, given numbers, urine tested, hair tested, measured, and observed. Frequently addicts are assigned labels laden with emotional rhetoric. Declared to be hopeless, these people often have as much faith in what they have been labeled by strangers as the strangers have in the labels given. This curriculum examines the issues of fear, promises, and clarity. It invites the emergence of the authentic self. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Emergence- Demonstrator Guide $124.95 Accompanying demonstrator guide for teachers/practitioners. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Beginnings Family Dynamics- Demonstrator Guide $124.95 Accompanying demonstrator guide for teachers/practitioners. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Vocabularies of Violence & Affection- Demonstrator Guide $124.95 Accompanying demonstrator guide for teachers/practitioners. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Origins of Restorative Paradigms- Student Workbook $17.95 The concepts of paradigms, paradigm shifts and paradigm paralysis are explored first in general, and then applied to personal recovery. Each participant must examine, challenge, and experience a shift in their own paradigms regarding addiction, criminality and the recovery process. The self-help/sobriety movement is presented as a series of paradigm shifts affecting societal attitudes toward addiction. It is imperative that participants understand the positive relationships between 12 Step and TC modalities so they can avail themselves of the support from the 12 Step Community once they graduate from the TC. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Origins of Restorative Paradigms- Demonstrator Guide $124.95 Accompanying guide for demonstrators/practitioners. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Basic Assumptions of the Therapeutic Community (Vol. 1)- Student Workbook $17.95 Students are introduced to the “basics” of community, including being public rather than private, a participant rather than a spectator, and inclusion rather than exclusion. Other concepts include jobs versus roles, and the relationship of personal authority rather than vested authority in a community context. The norms established in this curriculum are foundational for developing pro-social behaviors, healthy peer groups, and good citizenship. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Basic Assumptions of the Therapeutic Community (Vol. 1)- Demonstrator Guide $124.95 Accompanying guide for teachers/practitioners. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Resentment, Rationalization, Resistance, Reaction, and Perseverance- Student Workbook $17.95 The curriculum explores both personal and global rationalizations (eg. destruction of the rainforests), and identifies positive and negative uses of resistance. The lives of Malcolm X, Chico Mendez, Henry David Thoreau, and Gandhi are studied for their positive demonstration and the contributions that they made to society. Perseverance is studied from the perspective of character development. This curriculum promotes development of emotional literacy and prepares them for subsequent work in this area. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Resentment, Rationalization, Resistance, Reaction, and Perseverance- Demonstrator Guide $124.95 Accompanying demonstrator guide for teachers/practitioners. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Number to Name- Student Workbook $17.95 The material in this curriculum addresses current societal attitudes toward incarceration, rehabilitation and habilitation, and the powerful impact made by those with a vision for change. Exercises help students identify and articulate coping skills, habits and attitudes developed as a result of incarceration. The goal of this curriculum is to create formats for individuals to study the history of the justice of retribution. Furthermore, their personal histories within the system of retributive justice are explored and discussed. Through the curriculum, students develop and articulate the effects of incarnation on their lives (microcosm) and in society (macrocosm). Students identify anti-social behaviors that preceded their incarceration and flourished throughout their lives as inmates. After identifying naming and claiming these behaviors the tasks focus on developing strategies to practice antidote behaviors—leading them toward personal and community restorative justice. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Number to Name- Demonstrator Guide $124.95 Accompanying guide for demonstrators/practitioners. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]

Tending the Heart's Garden- Student Workbook $17.95 Tending The Heart’s Garden is a woman-centered curriculum for both women and men. It examines the changing roles of women in the last hundred years, as well as the need for role development in the feminine aspects of character. The curriculum focuses on spring holidays that celebrate re-birth, regeneration, resurrection and growth. Springtime is used as a metaphor for the growth and re-birth process that takes place in transformation and recovery after the “winter” of addiction and criminality. The wounding traumas in the student’s lives are identified using exercises that encourage them to find strength in survival. Ultimately, students search to find ways to grow larger than what wounded them. [Add to Cart]  [View Cart]