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 techniques, tools, and perspectives that will help residential treatment staff in providing effective care and treatment for the children and youth living at their program. See the Podcast page, which you can get to from the main menu for more about the podcast series and episodes.
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