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A Program of Rutland Dismas House

Thresholds/Decisions. Rutland, Vermont. A Program of Rutland Dismas House. Thresholds / Decisions. The Thresholds program was initiated in 1965 by Dr. Milton Burglass, a former prisoner.

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A Program of Rutland Dismas House

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  1. Thresholds/Decisions Rutland, Vermont A Program of Rutland Dismas House

  2. Thresholds / Decisions The Thresholds program was initiated in 1965 by Dr. Milton Burglass, a former prisoner. Thresholds training in Rutland, Vermont is developed and coordinated by Thresholds/Decisions of Rutland, a program of Rutland Dismas House.

  3. THRESHOLDS / DECISIONS Thresholds / Decisions is a structured course in decision-making developed by and for a community of volunteers.

  4. The Thresholds/Decisions Program: Understandand catalyzechange in criminal behavior Involvement of local citizens in making our criminal justice system more effective Put the Communityinto the community correctional system

  5. Thresholds/Decisions Programs: The Thresholds curriculum is offered to inmates at the Marble Valley Community Correctional Facility in a week long training each Spring and Fall.

  6. Thresholds/Decisions • “Community” training in decision making and goal setting in which volunteers are trained to work with inmates and residents of Rutland Dismas House. • The course includes 18 hours of instruction and interactive training in goals, strategies and specific tools of THRESHOLDS. • Topics include: decisional living, language and behavior skills with the intentional use of symbols, imagery poetry, film and music.

  7. Thresholds/Decisions Community Training is also available for Teachers, Mentors, Social Workers, Students (some credit is offered), Correctional Staff and people who simply want to use Decisonal Living skills in their own lives for themselves, their families and their friends

  8. Thresholds/Decisions Additional Offerings: • High School Students • College Students • Upward Bound Students • The General Community We also offer Artform Workshops Where Music and Art are used Extensively in Decision Making.

  9. Thresholds/Decisions Curriculum • Goal setting and decision-making • Developing and carrying out long and short range plans • Attitudinal changes, and consideration of a satisfactory life style

  10. Thresholds/Decisions Rutland, Vermont

  11. Thresholds/Decisions Decision Making The purpose of this decision-making program is to offer skills that will help you to increase the amount of control you have over your life.

  12. 1 SEE THE SITUATION CLEARLY Step 1 See The Situation Clearly • Isolate and define situations • Separate external events from internal feelings • See the real limits and possibilities in your life STEPS TO DECISION MAKING

  13. MY LIFE Your Life is a Series of Discrete Events

  14. What am I Feeling? There are External Situations and Internal Feelings

  15. External/Internal • There is more than one possible feeling that can result from any given external situation, and therefore more than one way of acting in response to it. • Understanding this allows us to make decisions on how to act in any given situation rather than reacting automatically. • If someone goads us, we don’t have to punch him; we can walk away, we can say something to him or we can agree with him.

  16. External/Internal(Examples)

  17. 2 KNOW WHAT YOU WANT 1 SEE THE SITUATION CLEARLY . Step 2 Know What You Want • Find a direction in your life • Set a specific goal! • Be clear on what you want from a given situation STEPS TO DECISION MAKING

  18. Which Road? What Goal?

  19. How Do You Make Decisions? What is Your Plan?

  20. Every Problem Has a Goal Know What You Want! PROBLEM Reaction Cycle GOAL

  21. FORWARD MOVEMENT If you don’t know what you want, you may become stuck in a reaction cycle. Each situation sets up a reaction which causes a slightly different situation which sets up a new reaction and so on and so on…. If you are not aware of such cycles, someone else may be running your life without you knowing it. If you know what you want, you can break these cycles. You NEED forward movement toward a goal!!!

  22. 3 EXPAND POSSIBILITIES 1 SEE THE SITUATION CLEARLY s . Step 3 Expand Possibilities • Identify alternatives • Create new ones to develop more than one way to reach a goal! STEPS TO DECISION MAKING 2 KNOW WHAT YOU WANT

  23. Expand The Possibilities There is more than one way to reach a goal. Lots of possible solutions can be generated. Brainstorming should be used to look at ALL the possibilities. The symbol used here looks like the sun, its rays representing all the possible routes to a goal. There are 360 degrees of possibilities. DO NOT make judgments now of right or wrong, cool or stupid 2 1 3 8 4 7 5 6

  24. 4 EVALUATE AND DECIDE 1 SEE THE SITUATION CLEARLY s . Step 4 Evaluate and Decide • Look at possible outcomes • Consider risks • What are the odds of success? • Are there any alternatives? • Be aware of your values STEPS TO DECISION MAKING 3 EXPAND POSSIBILITIES 2 KNOW WHAT YOU WANT

  25. RISKSODDS OUTCOMES Evaluating means weighing all the possibilities against each other. By doing this you will learn how to deal with RISKS, ODDS and OUTCOMES. For example, is one of your possible courses of action worth the risk? What are the odds that you will achieve the goal? What will be the outcome for you if you choose this possibility?

  26. 5 ACT 1 SEE THE SITUATION CLEARLY s . Step 5 ACT • Learn to map out goals, strategies and tactics for getting things done • Self-monitoring is emphasized STEPS TO DECISION MAKING 4 EVALUATE AND DECIDE 3 EXPAND POSSIBILITIES 2 KNOW WHAT YOU WANT

  27. Reach Your Goal Put down in words or pictures what your goal is, how you intend to achieve your goal and in what time frame you will get there. DO IT!

  28. ACTION PLAN Strategies

  29. Action Plan Set Discreet Goals with Endpoints

  30. Thresholds / Decisions Volunteers

  31. Artforming Artforming is a Technique and a Skill

  32. ARTFORMING 1. Equalizes everyone 2. Encourages decision-making 3. Shows us that no matter how remote or familiar an object or situation is, it can relate to us personally and in our own situations

  33. ARTFORMING (cont…) 4. Increases our awareness level 5. Increases our perceptions 6. Helps identify similarities and differences 7. Helps us think things through 8. Helps us think, feel, experience, decide, act and relate

  34. The Artforming Process(Examples)

  35. Thresholds / Decisions Volunteers

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