Boot Camp Steps
These are the United Front Boot Camp steps. Please make sure to check out the description of the United Front Boot Camp.
- Can’t we all just get along? - If our head were a house, how are we treating each other?
- Hiring and Firing and Self-Advocacy - These days you're your best case manager -- or should be.
- Is this therapy? (NO!) - This is a self-help tool for you to use with whomever you'd like, even alone.
- Please wipe your feet before you come in - Reframing to a non-victim, non-blame mentality. Welcome, all!
- Exercise: Starting Over - Making our shared residence (mind) a more hospitable place to live.
- Thanks for Washing the Dishes! - Gratitude is so powerful; we take the time to be grateful to our companions.
- The bathroom is the first left down the hall - Headmaps, rudimentary and beyond. Exercise included.
- Come back inside - Thoughts on the art of looking inside when you're fronting.
- The problem with extremes - Handling perfectionism, procrastination, and using extremes to hold ourselves back.
- We need to sit down and talk... - The idea of having internal meetings and taking roll calls.
- Exercise: Meeting - Hold your first official meeting. Nothing big, just getting it done.
- Exercise: Signing the Lease - Next meeting: creating a contract of participation in the program.
- Always Lock the Door When You Leave - House rules - protecting the system inside and out.
- Knives Point Down in the Dishwasher - House rules - personal & intrapersonal safety issues.
- That's MY Shampoo! - Internal boundaries & respect.
- Ice cream is NOT a right; it's a privilege - Understanding the needs of the "bad guys" by way of our littles.
- It's ok to have a party! - Time for a break and reflection.
- Can we talk this over? - Some specific notes on internal communication and some suggestions.
- You Can't Make Me! - Encouraging others to follow the rules.
- Who Stole My Money? - How to handle rule violations.
- Don't Snoop in my Diary! Part I - More tips on building trust in the system.
- Don't Snoop in my Diary! Part II - Precautions about digging up forgotten memories.
- Please make yourself at home - Part 1 - Basic thoughts on internal landscapes.
- You're really looking good today! - Internal landscape and cues that foster communication.
- Please make yourself at home - Part 2 - Rudimentary through elaborate internal landscapes.
- You're always making me late! - Some ideas on "time management" and keeping track of time.
- Where am I and what time is it? - On "losing time" -- what is it really?
- Don't shove me around! - "Stealing front." Not the crime of the century after all...
- We're so glad you could join us! - Helping stuck guests gain co-awareness.
- Is this a home or a prison? - On sharing front versus stealing front.
- Meetings, Part 2 - Meeting agendas - a review of boot camp posts.
- I got you a present - What's all the work worth if you don't spread the wealth?
- Taking out the Trash - More on "as outside, so inside (and vice versa)."
- Barbed wire or white picket fence? - Different levels of boundaries and what they mean.






