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The Amending Journey Workbook
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The Amending Journey Workbook

A transformative, six-chapter curriculum developed by the founders of Living A.M.E.N.D.S. Each chapter is designed to meet youth where they are — drawing on real lived experience to build insight, accountability, and the tools needed for lasting change.

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Amending Journey Curriculum

Six chapters. Six tools for transformation.

Addiction to the Streets

R.I.P. Cycle

This section introduces the mentees to the concept of lifestyle addiction. Specifically, the gang and criminal lifestyle. It provides mentees insight into the reasons young people join gangs, which is Acceptance and Protection, and asks them to consider the root of these two desires, which is insecurity. It also introduces them to the R.I.P. cycle (Rumination, Instinct, Progression) giving them insight into how they progressed in their criminality.

Managing Anger

W.H.A.T System

This section gives the mentees insight into their anger issues, anger triggers, and provides coping skills and tools. It also introduces them to the W.H.A.T system; an effective cognitive restructuring coping tool.

Engaging Conflict with Courage

R.E.A.D Tool

This section teaches the mentees to deal with conflict maturely with patience and empathy. It teaches them the dangers of aggressiveness, the ineffectiveness of passivity, and the proper use and effectiveness of assertiveness. It also introduces them to the conflict resolution tool R.E.A.D: Recognize, Empathy, Assess, and Decide.

Navigating Goals

S.M.A.R.T Goals

This section gives the mentees tools for setting, navigating, and achieving goals, including the S.M.A.R.T goal test (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-Bound), the A.B.C (Any Job, Better Job, Career) and the 5-step navigation system: Define Goal, Gather Data, Reconcile Goals with Data, Monitor Outcomes, Analyze Variances, and Adjust.

Dealing with Denial

Four Levels of Denial

This section gives the mentee insight into their denial issues and the denial patterns they use (minimization, rationalization, etc.). The four core emotions (fear, pain, shame, and guilt) they are trying to avoid by using denial, and the four levels of denial: Conscious Denial, Unconscious Denial, and finally Delusion.

Spiritual Wellness

Spiritual Energy

This section helps the mentee understand the spiritual energy within them, and gives them tools to cultivate and harness this energy. It teaches them the importance of decreasing negative influences/energy (drainers) and increasing positive influences/energy (fillers) in their lives. It also teaches them the power of love, necessity of forgiveness, dangers of negative speech, and how to discern good goals from evil ones.

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The Financial Journey Workbook

Written by: David Ortiz

From the Living A.M.E.N.D.S Journey Series

The Financial Journey Workbook is a curriculum built for the mentees in language they understand with examples from the world they know, and the world they are preparing to enter. It is about one thing: power. Not the kind one takes from someone else, but the kind that's personally built brick by brick, decision by decision.

Financial freedom is not about how much a person makes. It is about how they manage what they keep. Someone can make millions and end up broke, and a lot of people do, so the question is not how to get money. The question is who a person is when the money comes.

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The Powered Off Workbook

Written by: David Ortiz

From the Living A.M.E.N.D.S Journey Series

The Powered Off Workbook was created from a prison cell, because the incarcerated can tell whether or not a program is authentic. It is a curriculum written with real, firsthand knowledge of what being in prison feels like. This is not a watered-down course; it's about what a phone means to the incarcerated, and what it costs financially, legally, relationally, mentally, and physically. Every one of the founders of Living A.M.E.N.D.S, Inc. has been caught with a cell phone (some more than others), thus this course was created from the mistakes of the mentors for the Living A.M.E.N.D.S mentees.

The desire to stay connected to the real world is human, so this curriculum will not start off by telling participants they are wrong, but rather, it gives them exactly what they need: the truth. By taking the time to walk them through the whole picture, this curriculum gives them a program that touches every aspect of phone use including the biology of cell phone dependency, the spiderweb of the contraband network, the institutional and board consequences, the psychological syndromes that we never hear about, the relational damage nonstop access can have, and the path to mental freedom.

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Living A.M.E.N.D.S is a growing organization actively expanding its curriculum library. Additional workbooks and resources are on the way.

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