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Navigating Emotional Realities with Adults: relationships, victim mentality, and positive outlook
This is the second blog based on questions received after a day of leading Navigating Emotional Realities with Adults workshops. There have [...]
aha! Process employees and consultants give thanks with their favorite Thanksgiving recipes
The holidays are approaching, and aha! Process is thankful for its employees, consultants, customers, and everyone who impacts and is impac [...]
Navigating Emotional Realities with Adults: body language and attachment styles
As I have been doing Navigating Emotional Realities with Adults workshops, there have been a lot of interesting questions submitted by part [...]
Building a Bridges community in Wichita, Kansas
What do you get when a Getting Ahead facilitator states that Staying Ahead resources are a must for graduates and that resourced individu [...]
Burlington Building Bridges participant credits Getting Ahead for turning her life around
The following is from Jennifer Daly, a Burlington Building Bridges Getting Ahead graduate. I came to meet Miss Mona [Mona Ash, program direc [...]
Graduate offers up a song in the first Slovakian Getting Ahead graduation
Phil DeVol, author of Getting Ahead in a Just Gettin’-By-World, had the opportunity to train social service providers via Zoom in Slovakia [...]
Being kind rather than nice: Improving healthcare outcomes in Wyoming’s “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” culture
Being fiercely independent is both a benefit and a challenge for the residents of Wyoming. Wyoming is the least populated state in the Unit [...]
Phil DeVol describes theory of change mental model
The following is an edited transcript of the above video. Let’s dive straight into the theory of change mental model—I think you’re going [...]
Bridges and Getting Ahead used widely at Evansville Christian Life Center
The following is an edited transcript of Gina Gibson and Stephen Ralph, both of the Evansville Christian Life Center in Evansville, India [...]
A complex journey from homelessness to affordable housing
It’s a quiet and chilly morning in a Walmart parking lot. A brown Toyota 4Runner, in need of repairs, is stuffed with the personal belonging [...]
This growth mindset grew into new opportunities
The following is by Tiffany Jones, a Getting Ahead graduate from Pima County, Arizona. In 2018 I was presented with the opportunity to atten [...]
Getting Ahead graduate finds her way to Main Street Ministries
The following is from Jocabeth Reyes, a Getting Ahead graduate. Reyes now works with Main Street Ministries. Jocabeth Reyes's Hacia Adelan [...]
Development of appropriate boundaries using the Karpman triangle
Emotional resources are linked to appropriate boundaries. Boundaries signify the ability to say “no” to being “used.” In other words, bound [...]
aha! Process consultant speaks about Job Corps’ desire to increase retention and graduation rates
The following is an edited transcript of Vern Reed, an aha! Process consultant, being interviewed by Lynn Jackson, engagement manager at [...]
Anna’s story
The following is from Norma Parsons, a paralegal and Getting Ahead facilitator with Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma in Altus, Oklahoma. I wan [...]
Why I am a consultant with aha! Process
In my first year of teaching, I was fortunate to work in a school that fully embraced the work and learning strategies of Ruby Payne. My as [...]
The best of the best
As I travel the country, I’m often asked, What is the best thing about _______________? The blank is usually about one of the aha! Process [...]
The high-octane fuel that addresses poverty
The following is a transcript, lightly edited, of an interview with Kathleen Webb, CEO of Children First. The interview was conducted by [...]
Addressing poverty: The best of the best
I find all the workshops and professional development offered by aha! Process to be helpful. When asked what my favorites are, I narrowed it [...]
Brain regulation in action
The following is a portion of an interview with Amy Finn, program facilitator with Northwest Special Education Cooperative in Elizabeth, [...]
This is my why
Sometime back, I received this story from a client who was greatly impacted by the hidden rules within the book A Framework for Understandi [...]
Getting Ahead plays a key role in one man’s redemption story
The following was submitted by Norma Parsons of Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma. It was written by Shaune Gallardo, a 2022 Getting Ahead gra [...]
Is it good business or social justice?
That employee working the front line at $15 an hour… The employee who asks for a cash advance… Or the employee who sits in the break room d [...]
Bonton Farms places value on relationships and opportunities
“It’s all about relationships and trust.” Those words were heard repeatedly during my visit to Bonton Farms. I was lucky enough to be invite [...]
Funding and program development opportunities arising from national opioid settlements
The opioid epidemic affects people across the United States. It stands to reason that those hardest hit by the epidemic are those who are a [...]