Core Skills
Making an honest effort to understand another point of view about any situation you are considering.
What is View-Switching?
Finding the courage to ask questions and express what you really want. Communicating with others as clearly as you can.
What is ‘Don’t Make Assumptions?’
Public speaking and the public nature of sharing experiences in the Community is used for therapeutic purposes for the individual and for others.
What is Open Communication?
A formal schedule of therapeutic and educational activities with prescribed formats, fixed timers and routine procedures.
What is a Structured Day?
When a person is struggling to choose to balance their values and belief system with appropriate behavior.
What is Conflict?
Saying a positive truth about ourselves because we want to remember
What is affirming?
This will change from when you are healthy as opposed to sick, but under any circumstances you can do this and avoid self-judgement, self-abuse, and regret.
What is ‘Always do your best’?
Along with providing feedback to others as to what they must change, members must also provide examples of how they may change.
What are Role Models?
Programs located in settings that allow residents to disconnect from networks of drug using and to relate to new drug-free peers.
What is Community Separateness?
Being defensive, minimizing the seriousness of a problem.
What is denial?
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.
What is Focusing?
Speaking with integrity and saying what you mean.
What is ‘Be Impeccable with your Word’?
Job Functions, chores, and prescribed procedures maintain the daily operations of the facility. These activities strengthen self-help and are vehicles for teaching self-development.
What is Structure and Systems?
The concepts, messages, and lessons are repeated and reinforced in group sessions, meetings, seminars, and peer conversations, as well as in suggested readings, on signs posted in the TC, and in writing assignments.
What are Instruction and Repetition of TC Concepts?
The highest behavior expectation of the Community, which protects the structure, Community members, and safety of the Community.
What is a Cardinal Rule?
Identifying the assistance you need and going after it.
What is Resourcing?
Nothing others do is because of you.
What is ‘Don’t Take Anything Personally’?
This enhances community cohesiveness and reinforces individual progress. This guides recovery and right living.
What is Culture and Language?
The interpersonal and social demands of living together in the TC provide many opportunities to experience this training. TC residents learn to identify feelings, express them appropriately and manage them constructively in stressful situations.
What is Emotional Growth Training?
When two or more people are having any conversation, while someone else is talking, to the point of distraction and disrespectful behavior.
What is a Sidebar?
Communicating something that is important to you in a clear and constructive manner.
What is Asserting?
This person wrote the four agreements.
Who is Don Miquel Ruiz?
Daily life in the TC provides learning opportunities through the various social roles individuals assume as participants in the Community.
What are Community Member Roles?
These teach recovery principles such as feeling compassion, being honest, confronting reality, seeking self-awareness, and using others for emotional support and caring.
What are Peer Accountability Groups?
A negative position or attitude of the body.
What is Posturing?