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Becoming CenteredAuthor: Russ Bloch, MSW, MBA
This podcast is a field guide for professionals seeking perspectives and techniques for helping others find their balanced path. It's also for people who want to learn the self-counseling pathways, navigation tools, and practices to live a centered life. Organized into several series, this podcast focuses on: (1) understanding the territory of personal psychology, (2) tools and techniques for counseling others in how to develop a centered and balanced life, and (3) tools and techniques for navigating your own emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and self-regulation challenges. Language: en-us Genres: Courses, Education, How To Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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62. House Meeting2 - Phases of Team Development
Episode 62
Monday, 8 December, 2025
Episode 62 of the Becoming Centered podcast is the second episode in an arc focused on House Meetings. In my experience, House Meetings are the single most effective group structure in the residential week for promoting team-building and for developing the kids into a high-performance team. When that happens the entire residential experience shifts from having to spend an excessive amount of time on behavior management to a treatment environment that promotes mental health. Developing that kind of positive peer and staff culture takes time. It also takes solid strategy and understanding of team development. This episode blends together the basics for resilience (a sense of belonging, purpose, agency, and meaning) with a well-known model for understanding the phases of team development - forming, storming, norming, and performing. This episode also presents a way to understand four major ways in which our brain's regulate our emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. With time-tested structures like check-in's, House Meetings become a time for practicing executive skills, learning emotional sensitivity, acquiring prosocial beliefs, and healthy values. At the same time, House Meetings can become an effective way to teach listening respectfully, stating opinions appropriately, giving and receiving feedback maturely, and learning how to negotiate and compromise with others.
