One Step at a Time
The First 38
General Education
Following the Rules
This Applies to Me How....
100
How many steps are in MRT? AND How many steps do you need to pass off to complete the 90 day OUT program?
What is 16 AND What is 3.
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How does MRT define the word prison?
What is an addiction or an overwhelming desire for anything, our beliefs are a type of prison, anything we are a slave to. (p. 1)
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What does MRT stand for?
What is Moral Reconation Therapy
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How do you pass off a step?
What is : STAND, State the essence of the step, read the part of the freedom ladder you are on, successfully present the worksheet and share your testimony (if the step you are on has one)
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Why is MRT included in the 90 day OUT program?
What is : (acceptable answers include: to help restructure our thoughts, teach us to follow rules, help us be more honest, to not re-offend)
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What is the lowest moral level in which a human being can exist?
What is disloyalty?
200
How do we learn to manipulate others?
What is: we learned as an infant to get all our needs met, and as we grew if people still did not meet our demands, we learned how to behave in a way that would get our needs met.
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MRT is a C_____ driven program based on H______.
What is client and honesty
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1. How many service hours do you need to pass off step six? 2. When can you start working on these service hours? 3. What types of service can you do ?
What is : 1. 10 2. After passing off step three 3. Write letters to those serving our country, draw pictures for sick or injured children, write your recovery story for new members of the OUT program, help others with homework, listen to those in distress
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What are the benefits of MRT?
What is: enhance self-image, promote growth of a positive, productive identity, and facilitate the development of higher stages of moral reasoning, reduce recidivism
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What is the essence of step two? AND What are the three parts of the step two testimony?
What is : Trust AND 1. Give examples of how you trust the program 2. Discuss how you trust someone in the program 3. Discuss that you believe there is an inner force working inside you to change.
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1. What is your inner self? 2. Why can't you access your inner self?
What is : 1. The part of ourselves that is unconscious, it's who we truly are, it contains all of our potential as a human being, are deepest goals are stored here, it contains all the information we need to achieve these deepest goals. 2. The inner self is surrounded by a prison of defense mechanisms
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What does reconation mean?
What is the conscious process of decision making and purposeful behavior.
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1. Describe what happens if you lie, display untrustworthy behavior, and are arguing. 2. What does this process look like?
What is : 1. You will need to repeat steps one (honesty), step two (trust) and step three (acceptance) before completing the step you are working on. 2. You can not repeat all three of these steps at the same time. You will present step one one week, step two the next and so on.
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Each team member list what are the most influential parts of MRT and why
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Step three teaches us about opposition. Explain this stage on the freedom ladder. What are people like who are stuck in opposition?
What is : pretending less, but blame society, the rules and unfairness of others for their problems in life. They are in open opposition to established order. They are rigid, unadaptable, hostile and manipulative. Arguing and complaining dominate. Try to control others, and to prove you are right and they are wrong.
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1. What is your personality? 2. What are defense mechanisms? 3. Give four examples of defense mechanisms the book mentions
What is : 1. Beliefs---attitudes---behaviors and habits. It is HOW WE ARE not who we are. 2. They exist to keep us focused on our personality and to keep the inner self hidden. 3. Back scratching, focusing on others' flaws, cheap thrills, rationalization, overemphasizing the importance of some things while ignoring others
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What are the purposes of the MRT program? (There are three answers)
What is : 1. To help you take control of yourself and become the person you should be (P. 39, step one). 2. Reduce recidivism (re-offending) 3. Teach structure and rule following
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1. What are the commitments you agree to in step three? 2. If you are caught breaking these commitments, what happens?
What is : 1. following the rules-program and jail, not using drugs, no arguing, no controlling things. 2. You will need to repeat step three, and will have to journal your interactions, focusing on argumentative behaviors, for a week.
400
1. What is the root of unhappiness ? 2. What can you do to find lasting happiness?
What is : Manipulation, merge the personality and inner self
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1. What is the essence and stage on the freedom ladder for step four? 2. What is the purpose of the, Things in My Life Right Now worksheet in step four?
What is: raise our self-awareness about the things in our lives and the effect they have on us.
500
People in the Injury stage, are most often unaware they are stuck here. Blaming others and believing life is unfair are constant behaviors. They are causing injury to themselves and others but refuse to see it. 1. Give two examples of this type of injury
What is alcoholism and drug addiction
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1. What is your first assignment in MRT? 2. MRT was created by
What is 1. To read the first 38 pages 2. Gregory Little and Kenneth Robinson
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1. Discuss the purpose of all these rules in MRT. 2. Discuss why rules are important in your life. 3. Discuss four rules, (jail, MRT or program) that are positively impacting your life right now, and why.
What is : Various answers....
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Each member discuss how you will apply the most influential parts of MRT to your life
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