The thirteen courses
Ten weeks each, one ninety-minute session a week. Every course names its science, its measures, and the product it builds. Mark courses as studied to keep track; your progress stays in this browser.
How the curriculum works | The Keystone | Reading list and measures
- 1
Constructing a Changed Mind
You cannot steer a mind you cannot see.
The Machine
Interpersonal Neurobiology - 2
The Unmaking of a Criminal
The system asks what you chose. This course also asks what you were given, and what you owe.
The System and the Teaching
Criminogenics and Restorative Justice - 3
The Science of Safety
Your body decided before you did.
The Machine
Polyvagal Theory - 4
Trauma and the Brain
Trauma has no tense.
The Machine
Trauma and the Brain - 5
The Unfinished Response
Finish the motion the body never got to finish.
The Machine
Somatic Practices - 6
The Engine of Violence
Violence is shame looking for a way out.
The Pattern
Shame Resilience - 7
The Attention You Own
Attention is the one thing nobody can confiscate.
The Pattern
Therapeutic Mindfulness - 8
Ask a Different Question
Not why the addiction. Why the pain.
The Pattern
Addiction Dynamics - 9
Identity Is a Vote
Every action is a vote for the person you are becoming.
The Pattern
Developing Values-Based Atomic Habits - 10
Redemptive Compassion
Compassion is not learned from scratch. It is recovered.
The Bond
The Age of Empathy - 11
Acts of Violence Are Failed Requests
Every act of violence is a request that failed.
The Bond
Nonviolent Communication - 12
Leverage Points
A system is perfectly designed for the results it gets.
The System and the Teaching
Systems Thinking and Structural Analysis - 13
No One Educates Alone
No one educates another. We educate one another.
The System and the Teaching
Critical Pedagogy and the Credible Messenger