Suggested month: August · Theme: Social Impact
Turn your lived experience into programs, mentorship, and advocacy.
Goal: You’ll outline a potential community project or reentry program.
Week 1: Writing Your Testimony with Purpose
- Reflect: What part of your pain could help someone else heal?
- Write: Write your full testimony—raw, real, and purposeful.
Week 2: Creating Solutions From Struggle
- Reflect: How can your story change lives if shared with intention?
- Write: Journal what a reentry program built by you would include.
Week 3: Mentorship: Reaching Back to Pull Forward
- Reflect: If you had your own program, what would it do?
- Write: Write a letter to someone still incarcerated who needs hope.
Week 4: From Story to Movement
- Write: What is the biggest thing you learned about yourself this month?
Exercises this month
- ☐ Draft a 1-page reentry program idea or outline.
- ☐ Identify 3 local or national nonprofits doing work you believe in.
End-of-month self-check
- ☐ I attended at least 3 of the 4 sessions.
- ☐ I completed both exercises.
- ☐ I can explain this month’s goal in my own words.
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