When you click the link above, you can save a ZIP file to your desktop with all of the handouts files included. Once you’ve saved the ZIP file to your desktop, double-click on the ZIP file to expand it to a folder. Inside the folder, find the handouts organized by Key Concept.

Handouts - Electronic Downloads

Please note that Handout contents are included with the exercises in the hardcopy Exercise Manual itself. For increased convenience, electronic PDF template downloads for copy-ready reproduction of the Handouts are available below.

To download, view and/or print the Handouts below, simply click on the link:
Key Concept 1: Intention
Individual Handout 1.3: What’s My Intention?
Key Concept 3: Communication that Blocks Connection
Individual Handout 3.2: Cover-Up
Individual Handout 3.3: Tuning in to the Four D’s
Key Concept 4: Four Choices in Receiving a Difficult Message
Group Handout 4.2A: Difficult-to-Hear Messages – Prison
Group Handout 4.2B: Difficult-to-Hear Messages – General Community
Key Concept 6: Feeling
Individual Handout 6.2: Expensive Emotions Worksheet
Individual Handout 6.5: Words which Express Thoughts instead of Feelings
Key Concept 7: Need
Individual Handout 7.2: Phrases to Express “I Need…”
Key Concept 8: Request
Individual Handout 8.2A: Six Stepstones for Making Requests
Individual Handout 8.2B: List of Scenarios – Prison
Individual Handout 8.2C: List of Scenarios – General Community
Individual Handout 8.5: What Keeps Me from Making a Request?
Key Concept 9: Connection with Self
Individual Handout 9.1: Self-Empathy Meditation
Individual Handout 9.3: Freeing Myself of Self-Violence
Individual Handout 9.4: Freeing Myself of Self-Demands
Group Handout 9.5: Cue Sheet – I see, I think, …
Key Concept 11: Empathy
Group Handout 11.4: Empathy Poker Dealer Instructions
Key Concept 13: Making Life Choiceful
Individual Handout 13.2: Power Against vs. Power With
Individual Handout 13.3A: Cultivating Our Power to Choose
Group Handout 13.3B: Cards Life Has Dealt Us – Prison
Group Handout 13.3C: Cards Life Has Dealt Us – General Community
Key Concept 14: Expressing and Receiving a “No”
Group Handout 14.2A: List of “No” Messages – Prison
Group Handout 14.2B: List of “No” Messages – General Community
Group Handout 14.3A: Situations for Expressing “No” – Prison
Group Handout 14.3B: Situations for Expressing “No” – General Community
Group Handout 14.3C: Instructions for Pair Practice
Key Concept 15: Appreciation and Celebration
Individual Handout 15.4: What Keeps Me From Expressing My Appreciation?
Key Concept 16: Anger
Group Handout 16.2A: Anger: Stimulus or Cause? – Prison
Group Handout 16.2B: Anger: Stimulus or Cause? – General Community
Individual Handout 16.3: SSSTOP
Group Handout 16.5: Anger Poker Dealer Instructions
Key Concept 17: Mourning and Forgiveness
Group Handout 17.2: Healing the Inner Child – Guidelines for Roleplay
Individual Handout 17.3: Mourning: Healing the Past