Drivers' Ed
By: Ryan J. Hulbert Ph.D.
By participating in this program, you are invited to become an Everyday Hero. An Everyday Hero begins with an ordinary person who is willing to do good deeds every day. With the support of family and community, and a map to follow, we can become actual Everyday Heroes. Roots and Branches is designed to be that map of a heroic journey in each of us.
Roots & Branches includes an individual participant journal and 2 reusable books: Drivers' Ed for the Brain and Growth Rings. The optional Award Kit comes with a laminated Road of Life picture, laminated Growth Rings picture, 10 walnut shells, laminated individual certificate of completion, and Everyday Hero award medallion
Beloved Community Neighborhood
You are invited to consider becoming a Beloved Community Neighbor to assist in a movement to heal the soul of America. There is no monetary cost to becoming an official Neighbor, but it does require a commitment to put forth effort and follow the Beloved Community Pledge.You can however donate to the cause which will help us spread the word of our Beloved Community Neighbor program.
There are many exciting opportunities to learn and grow, with this many tough choices are to be made. To make it through the youth and young adult years successfully, a person needs a combination of personal strength and skills, plus support from others.
This fun and engaging board-game helps young people, and those who care about them, learn important life lessons about reaching a Happy and Successful Adulthood.
Even though you will have some tough experiences, if you do the following, you are Guaranteed to Win!!
Develop a well-rounded set of personal strengths.
Develop a healthy interpersonal support team.
Don't give up!
Support Team Game History
Ryan J. Hulbert, Ph. D.
In 2008 a new board game, entitled “The Support Team Game” was produced in a joint effort by the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, and the Idaho Federation of Families. It was exciting to watch the progress from an idea, to a homemade prototype, to a finished product!
The origin of the game was a desire I had to help teenagers have an interesting and fun way to see the benefit of developing a group of support team members for themselves in their home communities. I strongly believe that healthy peers and adult mentors are essential for teenagers to become happy and successful adults. Another key part of the background of the game are the Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets. I have long been a fan of the 40 Developmental Assets as research-based practical ideas to strengthen young people both internally and externally.
About a year before it was produced, I brain-stormed a board game combining the concepts of support team members and the developmental assets and tried it out on my own teenagers. They gave me good ideas for improvements and other early ideas came from other test-pilot youth at my job at the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections. A homemade version of the game was played by some youth at the Idaho System of Care Conference in Boise in May 2007, by members of the Idaho Juvenile Justice Children’s Mental Health work group, and a group of juvenile justice professionals from around the country at a workshop at the national Systems of Care Conference in New Orleans in August 2007. A lot of enthusiasm was shown for the game as a fun learning tool, and possible locations suggested for youth to play the game were juvenile detention centers, alternative schools, state juvenile correctional facilities, juvenile probation departments, juvenile drug courts, and church youth groups.
The momentum for the game becoming reality grew in the Fall of 2007 when the Search Institute granted formal permission to use the copyrighted Developmental Assets. Courtney Lester, Director of the Idaho Federation of Families obtained a grant from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, and the social marketer for the Idaho Systems of Care, put her artistic talents to work on the final game board design. The finished game was demonstrated January 15, 2008 by Ross Edmunds, from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, in a workshop for judges and others involved in drug courts in Idaho.
The use of the game was largely dormant until I was invited by Dr. Virgil A. Wood to share it in a workshop in Houston, Texas in June 2015. With renewed enthusiasm for the game, it was reproduced by Chicago Game and Card in 2016.
One of Dr. Wood’s close associates, that Dr. Owen Cardwell, was instrumental in having 25 copies of the game be purchased by the District Attorney’s office in Richmond Virginia.
In 2018, I included the use of the game as part of a training to develop Everyday Hero's entitled Roots and Branches.
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Beloved Community Stool
This wooded stool, painted to colors of your choice(such as school colors), is an impactful physical representation of a comprehensive healthy social system for maximizing human potential. It further serves as a practical object lesson for demonstrating the essential importance of supporting individual growth through also strengthening the family and community, and the need to raise the health of the whole school, or other social system, biologically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. Please see the brief video showing how the stool can be demonstrated to others.
By: Ryan J. Hulbert Ph.D.
This on-line self study course gives you the opportunity to go into more depth into the teachings and techniques of the book Drivers' Ed for the Brain. The content and assignments are spread out over a 21 day period of time, with brief written responses which are submitted daily. Through devoting about 20 minutes per day for the 21 days in this course, you will be engaged in training for using your mind, body, and spirit for a less stressed filled ride, using the proper mental gear to meet your challenges, understanding the road conditions on your life journey, using the right fuel to have more inspiration in meeting your challenges, piloting on a spiritual plane, and following the map to a more joyful life
Drivers' Ed for the Brain BRAILLE
By: Ryan J. Hulbert Ph.D.- About
A new beginning--that's what Rob and Linda were looking for when they decided to pull up roots and move to their new state. There had been several years of gradually increasing stress as their four children, ranging in ages from fourteen to seven, were growing up. Rob and Linda seemed to be growing apart, and Rob's career dreams had not panned out.
With these opening lines, Drivers' Ed for the Brain allows the reader to participate with Rob and Linda through a six session community education class, taught by a retired psychologist, Dr. Vreda. They find it a fun, engaging, and a profound experience, which lives up to the statement of finding greater peace and joy. The objectives are: *Using your Mind, Body, and Spirit for a less stressed filled ride. *Using the proper mental gear to meet your challenges. *Understanding the road conditions on your life journey. *Piloting on a spiritual plane. *Following the map to a more joyful life.
Get ready for an exciting ride!
- Publication Date: May 07 2015
- ISBN/EAN13: 1511834706 / 9781511834704
- Language: BRAIILE
- Color: Black and White
- Related Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit / General
The Sun is Always Shining BRAILLE
By: Ryan J. Hulbert Ph.D.- About
Simple, powerful techniques, to renew your heart and mind, and find joy through focusing on the Light of Christ. Dr. Ryan Hulbert has helped hundreds of individuals to have a more peaceful and joyful perspective on life by learning to recognize and follow the Light of Christ. A great eternal truth is that the sun is always shining, even if we are temporarily lost in the dark clouds of anger, worry, and depression. Dr. Hulbert's sensitive, insightful book will teach you how to find the light and use it to enhance your relationship with God, others, and experience your own divine worth as a person.
- Publication Date: May 19 2015
- ISBN/EAN13: 151228484X / 9781512284843
- Language: BRAIILE
- Color: Black and White
- Related Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit / General
Growth Rings BRAILLE
By: Ryan J. Hulbert Ph.D.- About
As a sequel to Drivers' Ed for the Brain: Finding Greater Peace and Joy, Growth Rings allows the reader to again participate with Rob and Linda in a community education seminar taught by retired psychologist, Dr. Vreda. They find it engaging, inspiring, and practical in helping to become the persons they were meant to be. The objectives are: *Learn three steps of emotional maturity. *Learn ways to nourish your inner self and appreciate your uniqueness. *Be more open to expressing your individual talents. *Learn practical methods to experience greater love for yourself and others, and find deeper fulfillment.
Get ready for an exciting ride!
- Publication Date: March 14, 2017
- ISBN/EAN13: 1535482974 / 978-1535482974
- Language: BRAIILE
- Color: Black and White
- Related Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit / General
About The Author
Ryan J. Hulbert Ph.D. Published AuthorRyan J Hulbert, Ph.D., graduated from Brigham Young University, and received his doctorate in clinical/community psychology from the University of Nebraska Lincoln. In 1986, he completed a research fellowship at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium where his fascination with the role of time perspective in human functioning began.
Dr. Hulbert served as a staff psychologist and Director of Research at the Cherokee Mental Health Institute in Cherokee, Iowa between 1988 and 1993. He was the Chief Psychologist of BPA Behavioral Health for 8 years, and was the Clinical Services Administrator for the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections from 2001-2009. In 2010, he assisted with the initial program development for the Management & Training Corporation’s Correctional Alternative Placement Program (CAPP), in Idaho.
He is the author of several articles in professional journals, has presented numerous workshops, and is the author of the books, The Sun Is Always Shining, Drivers’ Ed for the Brain, and Growth Rings: Becoming the person you were meant to be.
He is the founder of EPIC Psychological Services, with “EPIC” being an acronym for “Empowering People in Communities.” His professional mission is to lighten the darkness, warm the hearts, and increase the agency of his clients, colleagues, and community. He views his strengths as compassion, creativity, and enthusiasm, in working with others to enhance health and reduce human suffering through increasingly effective, accessible, and cost effective methods.
He and his wife, Theresa, have 5 sons, 2 daughters, 5 daughters-in-law, 2 sons-in-law, and a growing number of grandchildren.
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