Healing Men’s Pain Curriculum

Healing Men’s Pain Curriculum

Authors: Dan Griffin, MA,   Jonathan De Carlo, CAS

Healing Men’s Pain Curriculum helps male-identified participants create a vision of the men they want to be and provides them with the awareness, tools, and confidence to achieve that vision. Each of the 18 two-hour, cofacilitated sessions includes activities, exercises, and experiential opportunities enabling each participant to connect with the content on a personal level. The program is wide-ranging and encompasses a variety of topics to help participants develop increased self-awareness to enhance their relationships. Participants explore their childhood, adolescent, and adult trauma; relational struggles, particularly issues of healthy attachment; and other issues that male-identified individuals often experience.

The material in Healing Men’s Pain Curriculum will stretch both participants and facilitators alike. The sessions are designed to take a deep and comprehensive look at everything that blocks men from being the best men they can be. The curriculum speaks to all learning styles through the use of art, physical movement, and role-plays. Participants are given additional learning opportunities in the form of assignments to complete between sessions.

These assignments build upon the role-plays and in-session practice to help participants translate the material directly into their own lives.

• Help men address their traumas, develop self-awareness, and build healthier relationships in recovery programs, mental health groups, or other settings
• Pick and choose from 18 intentionally designed lessons- or use the entire curriculum in order
• Access engaging activities that get participants moving and talking despite diverse learning styles and backgrounds
• Focus on male socialization, narrative therapy, and interactive learning to help participants develop understanding of themselves and others

Written by an expert on masculinity with a Master’s degree in gender studies, this curriculum is an excellent foundation or supplement to addiction programs, trauma groups, men’s groups, church groups, and beyond. Designed as a compliment to Helping Men Recover.

About the Authors

Dan’s professional background includes over three decades in the mental health and addictions field. In addition, he is the author of seven groundbreaking books and curricula. He is a nationally recognized expert and a sought after speaker and trainer. Dan served as a senior fellow at The Meadows from 2015 to 2017. Dan earned a Master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Kansas. For his graduate work, Dan completed the first qualitative study centered on the social construction of masculinity in the culture of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Jonathan De Carlo, CAS, is CEO of C4 Consulting, a subsidiary of C4 Recovery Foundation. In addition to his leadership position Jonathon is a Certified Addiction Specialist, with experience in addiction/recovery and mental health care since 1995. He is also an international consultant and trainer consultant and trainer. He is a co-owner and the Director of Operations of Recovery 360°, a group providing psychosocial rehabilitation, individual, group, marriage, and family therapy, and organizational development and consultation services. Jonathan currently serves as a board member and past president of the Colorado Association of Addiction Professionals (CAAP) and is on the board of directors for the Stout Street Foundation.