BIP
Posted on Sunday, June 7th, 2009 at 10:31 pmBatterer’s Intervention Class. The class I chose I chose because it was closest; it’s on Ferncreek. It’s called No Abuse. It has a reputation. It is the oldest. It is confrontational. Every single minute.
Most of the guys are done with their partners or wives. Or, their partners and wives are done with them.
The curriculum is modeled after a program begun in Duluth not long before we met. At it’s core are two wheels – the Power & Contol wheel, and its inverse the Equality wheel. The weekly homework at No Abuse focuses on one segment of one of the wheels. This week the homework was on the Respect section of the Equality wheel.
Thank you for sharing the wheel and your homework. I am familiar now with both wheels as they were part of DV class…good to know we are using the same tools. I did not have the questions as you do. Your answers regarding the blog are exactly how I feel in regards to posting, reading, responding with respect to you too.
In DV class either the women had left their abusers and were divorced and or getting divorced or they were still in the power/control cycle. There was also a wheel regarding children. Have you seen it?