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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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61. House Meeting - Resilience & Skills Development
Episode 61
Sunday, 23 November, 2025
Episode 61 of the Becoming Centered podcast starts an episode arc focused on the use of House Meetings in residential treatment programs. House Meetings are a structured meeting of all the residents and available staff that are part of a residential unit at a treatment program. House Meetings are the single most powerful structure for building a positive unit culture that supports the formation of a resilient residential team of staff and clients. This episode arc starts out by presenting a vision for how House Meetings can contribute to team-building efforts and especially to the kids developing a sense of belonging, a sense of purpose, a sense of agency, and a sense of meaning to their residential experience. At the same time House Meetings also provide an effective forum for encouraging the development of social skills and executive skills in the kids. This episode also addresses the first step in developing House Meetings to meet their full potential; creating a shared vision among all the staff involved in the residential unit. This requires aligning the development of House Meetings with the mission and vision of the residential treatment agency, creating a shared understanding of the purposes and goals of House Meetings, empowering direct-care staff to take an active role in developing House Meetings, and helping people find meaning in putting work and effort into the design and implementation of these meetings.
