Getting Ahead in a Just-Gettin’-By World is a workbook for adults in poverty that shows them how to use the hidden rules of class to build up financial, emotional, social, and other resources. Understanding the hidden rules of the middle class and wealth, and choosing to use them, can open doors to such resources as new relationships and new jobs, among others.

Working in a group with a facilitator, adults who use this workbook will develop a series of mental models to examine their own lives and create new future stories. In 15-20 sessions the participants explore the impact that poverty has had on them, investigate economic realities, complete a self-assessment of their own resources, make plans to build their own resources, and develop a mental model of community prosperity.

Getting Ahead does not provide answers to the participants on how to establish economic stability, nor does it make the argument for change; instead, motivation, insight, and plans come from the participants themselves. Upon completing Getting Ahead participants will have a plan of their own based on the knowledge acquired through the co-investigative process and expressed in new mental models.

Facilitator training includes the following topics: philosophy, theory, motivation and incentives, long-term support, mental models, content and process, and practice sessions.

Prerequisite: Bridges Out of Poverty one-day training

8:30 am - 3:30 pm, Central Community Church, 6100 Maple, Wichita 67209

Presenter: Phil DeVol, Senior Consultant, aha! Process, Inc.

Early Bird Registration is $175 (until June 15), Registrations received after June 15 are $200

Registration will include one Getting Ahead kit per program