Defining Narratives · A part of We The Revolt

Your record is not your narrative.

Defining Narratives is our curriculum institute. Four programs for young people, young men and fathers, built to be taught in a facility, online, or around a table at the center.

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The programs

Four ways to rewrite the story.

Each one is written in plain language by people who have sat in the rooms these young men sit in. Each one ends with a next step.

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The core · 23 weeks

Youth Intervention Program

Identity, responsibility, healing and what comes next. Runs the same in a facility, online and at the center.

23 weeks · 6 phases · up to 100 hours

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For young men · 6 modules

The Hunt

A brotherhood course on purpose, discipline and what you are really chasing.

6 modules · 12 lessons · open enrollment

For young fathers · 12 modules

Legacy: Young Fathers

Trauma, presence, breaking what got handed down, and the right to start again.

12 modules · 24 lessons

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For families · 12 lessons

The Talk: Getting Home

Encounters with law enforcement, for young people and the adults who raise them.

12 lessons · parent workbook · attorney checked

How it runs

Same lessons. Any room.

In a facilityTaught weekly inside juvenile facilities with trained facilitators and mentors.
OnlineThe same lessons on Defining Narratives online, so progress follows a young person home.
At the centerSmall groups at our centers and partner sites, with family sessions.
In your programChurches, schools, agencies and nonprofits can license and teach it, with training from our team.

Coming next

Financial literacy.

A stand-alone course on budgeting, credit, saving and building something that lasts is in development. It is already taught inside the core program.

For organizations

Bring Defining Narratives to your people.

Facilities, courts, schools, churches and community programs can run any of the four programs with training and materials from our team.

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