Archive of Published Episodes links to a listing, in reverse order of all published episodes. However, scrolling down this page to the dedicated pages for each season and each series may be an easier way to find the handouts that support the episode content.
The Becoming Centered 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:
- 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 prefer to simply access the podcasts in publication order you can go to the archive on The Becoming Centered Podcast hosting site: Archive of Published Episodes
The Becoming Centered podcast is available on most podcast index and hosting sites. However, different sites will make available a differing number of older episodes. Also, handouts that are available via this website are not necessarily available via every podcast platform.
Season 2 Series:
The Processing Pathway is all about how to help kids process their own use of problem-behaviors. With structured guidance from staff, they can learn how to understand their own patterns of behaviors in a way that leads to increased self-control and self-regulation of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.
- Episode 41: Season 2 – Overview
- Episode 42: Processing1 – Introduction to Processing
- Episode 43: Processing2 – Basic Cognitive Processing
- Episode 44: Processing3 – Chaining
- More to come
The Unit Supervision Pathway Series
The Unit Supervision pathway starts with a focus on how to create the time for all direct-care staff to receive several hours of individual supervision each month. It then moves on to how to structure the supervision time and then what content to cover in supervision. It presents a combination of management training and techniques, tools, and perspectives for how to teach counseling skills.
- Episode 41: Season 2 – Overview
- Episode 45: Supervision1 – Coordinator Roles
- Episode 46: Supervision2 – Giving Feedback
- Episode 47: Supervision3 – Delegating and Organizing
- Episode 48: Supervision4 – How to Structure the Supervision Meeting
- Episode 49: Supervision5 – Supervisor as Teacher and Coach
- Episode 50: Supervision6 – Leader, Superior, Boss, Mentor
- Episode 51: Supervision7 – The Hierarchy of Interventions
- Episode 52: Supervision8 – The Aspect Compass & Labeling
- More to come
Season 1 Series:
Residential Counselor Orientation Series
Consisting of 6 episodes, the Residential Counselor Orientation Series is designed for the new Residential Counselor. It introduces a way to understand your role, your relationship with clients and other counselors, and introduces some basic tools for becoming a skilled Residential Counselor.
- Episode 1: The Role of Residential Counselor
- Episode 2: Professional Boundaries
- Episode 3: Therapeutic Relationships
- Episode 4: Team Building
- Episode 5: The Domain Compass and Labeling
- Episode 6: The Aspect Compass and Setting Limits
Consisting of 7 episodes, the Residential Counselor 101 Series is designed for direct care staff working in a residential treatment program. It approaches the material from the perspective that listeners don’t have a formal education in psychology, social work, early education, or some related field. Rather, it focuses on the training needs of people who are new to the field of residential treatment. It provides some grounding in the science behind the tools and techniques that make up the craft of providing a treatment experience to troubled children and youth. However, the stronger focus, over the course of the entire series, is on the practical tools and techniques that are the craft behind the art of providing kids with a positive transformational experience.
- Episode 34: RC101 pt.1 – Science, Art, and Craft
- Episode 35: RC101 pt.2 – The Cardinal Aspects
- Episode 36: RC101 pt. 3 – Co-Regulation & Empathic Listening
- Episode 37: RC101 pt. 4 – Executive Skills & Labeling
- Episode 38: RC101 pt. 5 – Scout Skills & Processing
- Episode 39: RC101 pt. 6 – Empathy vs Cognitive Processing & Coping Activities
- Episode 40: RC101 pt. 7 – Resilience to Traumatic Stress
Residential Tools and Techniques Series
Consisting of 15 episodes, this series presents the use of various tools and techniques that can be used by residential counselors and others to help kids become emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally centered. These tools also help develop kids’ executive skills so that they become more independently able to become centered.
- Episode 11: Neurological Coregulation
- Episode 12: Structure and Structural Interventions
- Episode 13: Setting Firm Limits
- Episode 14: Time Outs
- Episode 15: Processing Feelings
- Episode 16: The Aspect Compass & Meeting Kids’ Needs
- Episode 20: Stories – The Bear Clan Origin pt. 1-3
- Episode 21: Becoming Physiologically Centered
- Episode 22: Understanding Reasoning
- Episode 23: Helping Kids Reason
- Episode 24: Heroes, Courage, and Fear
- Episode 25: The Eight Gifts
- Episode 26: Developing Executive Skills
- Episode 27: The Aspect Compass & Self-Talk
- Episode 28: Twelve Transformational Beliefs
Residential Treatment Issues Series
Consisting of 11 episodes, this series focuses on various topics that arise in residential treatment.
- Episode 7: Physical Interventions
- Episode 8: Physical Restraints
- Episode 9: Trauma Protection with Physical Restraints
- Episode 10: After Physical Restraints
- Episode 17: Suicidal Ideation
- Episode 18: After Processing Suicidal Ideation
- Episode 19: Management and Delegating
- Episode 29: Managing Problem Behaviors
- Episode 30: Supervisor Orientation Pt. 1
- Episode 31: Supervisor Orientation Pt. 2
- Episode 32: Supervisor Orientation Pt. 3
Episodes Guide:
Descriptions of the Series and the Episodes