4 Agreements/TC Acronyms/Mind States
The letters HOW stand for this in the TC community.
What is Honesty, Open-minded, and Willingness.
Paying attention to your own thoughts and knowing whether they are coming from your habit self or inner self.
What is Self- listening?
To assume a role or attitude of positive behavior even though you are not comfortable to
Acting as if
When you first get to ABHS, this is the person you turn your proposals into.
Environmental Crew Lead
Concern...
What is for one's soul and one's survival.
When things get crazy, just keeps going at a steady pace. Doesn't get ruffled, isn't given to hysterics, isn't flashy, but keeps putting one foot in front of the other.
Solid Rock
This emphasizes the value of earning rewards and becoming self-reliant. Nothing is given without cost.
There's no free lunch
This mind state is made up of Raw Emotions and Emotion-Driven thoughts. These are based on our beliefs and impulses in the moment.
What is Emotional Mind.
This means to choose something to be more important than something else. It is choosing what is most important to you.
What is Prioritizing.
It's the voice in your head that automatically says things about what you like or dislike or what you want to do.
What is Habit-self.
Encouraging others...
This is addressing someone's negative behaviors either verbally or written in a respectful way to help them acknowledge their self-destructive behaviors.
What is awareness or raising someone's awareness.
This is the philosopher, the person who contemplated things. They are the soul of the community and feed its spiritual needs.
We frequently become overwhelmed when we attempt to deal with too many problems at once. This encourages us to focus on one thing at a time.
Keep it simple
The letters WORTH stand for this in the TC.
What is Willingness, Open-mindedness, Respect, Truthfulness, and Humility.
Means thinking through what it is likely to happen as a result of what you might do. Another name for it is consequential thinking.
What is Forecasting?
Simple techniques you can use on the spot to calm yourself down when you need quick relief and time to think.
Calming
Demonstrate...
What is living right by helping others.
Public amends...
For wrong doing.
The one who is out front, waving the team flag, rallying the troops to follow. This person takes the risk of exposure by publicly buying into the model.
The Standard Bearer
Becoming aware of yourself and others allows us to lead a much more fulfilled life.
To be aware is to be alive
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.
What is Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Ability to recognize when a problem or conflict is developing.
Tension-sensing
The part of you that thinks and reasons. It doesn't get triggered into aggression or defensiveness.
What is Inner Self.
This is the primary goal of the Therapeutic Community.
What is to provide members with a sense of belonging, acceptance, and new skills for living without self destructive behavior patterns.
Leadership by...
Elders, role models of the community.
Can't seem to find a way to be a credible role model, so instead they try to get along with everyone. They use self-disclosure often to gain acceptance.
The Friend
This is an assertive reminder to the community members to remember the basic goodness and potential of one's inner self, particularly in times of despair, intimidation, and fear. It encourages individuals to put forth an honest struggle to change rather than avoid reality is change.
Remember who you are, you are worth it!
This is what PROPS stands for in the TC.
What is Proper Respect of Other People Speaking.
Making an honest effort to understand another point of view about any situation you are considering.
View-switching
Identifying the assistance, you need and going after it.
Resourcing
This is the highest position in Upper Structure that a Community member can achieve.
Senior Coordinator
Search for...
What is Meaning.
This is the person that brings sparkle into the room when they walk in
The sunshine
Take care of today and tomorrow will take care of itself
One day at a time
We are thinking rationally and logically. We are dealing with reality and seeing things as they really are.
What is Rational Mind.
Means recognizing any situation or possible situations things that could simulate you to use drugs, act violently, commit crime, or do some other kinds of destructive actions.
Danger-spotting
Communicating something that is important to you in a clear and constructive manner.
Asserting
This is what the Expeditor Crew Lead announces in the hall before entering a TC Meeting.
What is PROPS.
Challenge and....
Admonish with respect.
Very unhappy because they perceive their role in the group as not having enough power.
The Growler
Authentic change in long-held self-defeating behaviors, attitudes, and self-images involve struggle and even suffering.
No gain without pain
We are focused on problem solving and solutions.
What is Wise Mind.
Coming up with possibilities and choices, instead of just one or two, for any problem or course of action.
Brainstorming
Knowing how to make your first interactions with other people honest and positive so that you can feel comfortable with more people and be able to build more and better relationships.
Handshaking
This is the proper line of communication in the TC community.
What is Crew member, crew lead, assistant coordinator, senior coordinator, Staff of Duty (SOD), and back down.
Be involved...
and accountable to the community.
Lightning Rod
This stresses the importance of investing in change through total commitment to the process of change.
You get back what you give
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.
What is Always do your best.
Worth is defined...
What is "as the value of how something is measured."
These are the Steps of Interaction in the TC.
2 Verbal Awareness, 3 Written Awareness, 1 Peer Accountability Group, 1 Clinical Intervention
Learn new...
What is skills that enable development of healthy relationships.
This is where self-destructive/self-defeating behaviors are identified and brought to a Community member's attention in a formal manner. This is a formal Community function.
What is a Peer Accountability Group (PAG).
Tries to fade into the woodwork. They feel overwhelmed but are afraid to admit it.
The Termite
The ability to trust others is very important to personal and emotional growth
Trust in your environment.
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama.
What is Don't Make Assumptions.
Having basic human respect for whomever you are dealing with.
Humanizing
Pulling your attention and energies back onto a task when they seem to wander or when you are confused or can't seem to concentrate.
Focusing
Recognize...
What is similarities and respect individual differences.
This interaction is used when Community members go out of their normal "old" behavior without being asked and assist another member or do something for the Community.
What is a Push Up.
Able to remember what station we're headed for, no matter how confusing the landscape gets. When things start to go south, this person will ask questions to get us back on track.
The Conductor
Make sure that you are capable of handling a certain responsibility before asking for it.
Be careful what you ask for you might just get it.
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
What is Don't take anything personally.
Means saying what is true. It is a positive truth about ourselves that we tell ourselves because we want to remember it. Using this skill, we share important messages chosen by the inner self to help re-shape our habit selves and make us more positive.
What is Affirming.
The Expectations of the Therapeutic Community.
Performance, Responsibility, Self-Examination, Self-Sufficiency
Satisfy personal...
What is needs and desires through positive and responsible behavior.
Appropriate disclosure...
Of acts, fears, hopes, and guilt.
These are 8 TC Activities that Promote Change...
Physical, Emotional/Psychological, Cognitive, Social Consequences, Behavior Management/Behavior Shaping, Intellectual/Ethical, Spiritual, Vocational/Survival Skills
One must demonstrate a certain amount of maturity before being placed in a position of responsibility