Bøker av Dan Griffin

The first gender-responsive, trauma-informed curriculum designed specifically for mothers Amazing Moms! Motherhood Curriculum consists of 16 two-hour, co-facilitated sessions that include activities, exercises, and experiential opportunities. The goal of the workshop is to help participants create a vision of the mothers they want to be and to provide them with the awareness, tools, and confidence to achieve that vision. By encouraging participants to connect with the content on a personal level, the curriculum helps mothers enhance their relationships with their children and other family members. The Amazing Moms! program--including a Facilitator's Guide and Participant Workbook--goes beyond other parenting curricula, addressing the complex intersection of female socialization, childhood and adolescent trauma, and relational struggles that can come between mothers and their children. It covers a broad range of topics, including anger and shame, sex and sexuality, discipline, codependency, and self-care. The curriculum will challenge participants and facilitators alike to approach the material with vulnerability to achieve lasting growth. Follow detailed plans for facilitating 16 two-hour sessions on issues related to parenting, designed specifically for mothers Help participants develop self-awareness and understand how their past trauma influences their emotions and behaviors Encourage strong mother-child relationships with skill-building exercises and activities Use techniques to foster safety, trust, openness, and honesty in group settings This curriculum is for all moms, with children of all ages--especially those who have found themselves in child protective services or some other aspect of the child welfare system.

A 36-hour curriculum designed to help men overcome past trauma and develop the skills they need to live safe and caring lives Healing Men's Pain Curriculum helps male-identified participants create a vision of the men they want to be and provides them with the awareness, tools, and confidence to achieve that vision. Each of the 18 two-hour, cofacilitated sessions includes activities, exercises, and experiential opportunities enabling each participant to connect with the content on a personal level. The program is wide-ranging and encompasses a variety of topics to help participants develop increased self-awareness to enhance their relationships. Participants explore their childhood, adolescent, and adult trauma; relational struggles, particularly issues of healthy attachment; and other issues that male-identified individuals often experience.The material in Healing Men's Pain Curriculum will stretch both participants and facilitators alike. The sessions are designed to take a deep and comprehensive look at everything that blocks men from being the best men they can be. The curriculum speaks to all learning styles through the use of art, physical movement, and roleplays.Participants are given additional learning opportunities in the form of assignments to complete between sessions.These assignments build upon the roleplays and in-session practice to help participants translate the material directly into their own lives. Help men address their traumas, develop self-awareness, and build healthier relationships in recovery programs, mental health groups, or other settings Pick and choose from 18 intentionally designed lessons- or use the entire curriculum in order Access engaging activities that get participants moving and talking despite diverse learning styles and backgrounds Focus on male socialization, narrative therapy, and interactive learning to help participants develop understanding of themselves and others Written by an expert on masculinity with a Master's degree in gender studies, this curriculum is an excellent foundation or supplement to addiction programs, trauma groups, men's groups, church groups, and beyond. Designed as a compliment to Helping Men Recover.

Eva Guardia believes that she killed her six-year-old son on November 2, 1999.Eighteen years later, her attorney, Benjamin Truitt, is not so sure, and he soon finds himself following a trail that leads him into Eva's past and back through prophecies and madness, secrets and psychedelic drugs, uncovering old truths and creating new lies along the way...What begins as a simple case unravels before Ben's eyes, and soon he must look for an answer to a question that most believe has already been answered. Who killed Eva's son?