Welcome to the Bear Clan, llc website!
This website serves a few related purposes. The material is designed to either help you become a centered person or to improve your skills at helping other people become centered. Other material is intended to help residential treatment programs improve various aspects of their operations.
If you’re interested in guidance on your own personal journey toward becoming centered, then a great place to start is with the book, Becoming Centered: A Field Guide to Self-Counseling.
This website is the home of the Becoming Centered Podcast. It’s 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, the podcast focuses on:
- understanding the territory of personal psychology,
- tools and techniques for counseling others in how to develop a centered and balanced life, and
- tools and techniques for navigating your own emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and self-regulation challenges.
If you’d like to listen to material that’s focused on self-counseling, then start with the episodes in the Understanding the Territory Series to get the foundation for skillfully using the tools and techniques discussed in the Navigating the Territory Series and in the Traversing the Territory Series.
If you’re a Residential Counselor, or really any helping professional, then there’s also three podcast series that are focused on helping you help others. The Residential Counselor Orientation Series is for the new counselor looking for a powerful way to understand the role, the clients, and some core tools and techniques for counseling others. The Residential Tools & Techniques Series is the place to learn about concrete methods for helping others become emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally centered, while strengthening the development of their executive skills so that they grow able to independently become centered. The Residential Issues Series addresses a variety of topics that arise in the residential treatment of children and youth.
This website also shares Resources of use to Residential Counselors and administrators of Residential Treatment Programs for children and youth. These resources include:
- Sample Forms
- Sample Forms with Instructions
- How to Write Various Reports
- Quality Assurance Checklists
- Educational Handouts
- Educational Articles
- Emotional Development Tools & Techniques
- Cognitive Development Tools & Techniques
- Behavior Development Tools & Techniques
- Executive Skills Development Tools & Techniques