Each Reinvention Roadmap (lesson plan) included here is a guide to help you engage in emotion-based behavior change conversations with your clients.

The following guidelines have proven successful with Chickasaw Nation, and we recommend them for use with your Reinvention Roadmaps:

• Start with emotion rather than facts or advice.
• Use pictures or props to help trigger the targeted Heart Buttons (reinvention, family values, nurturing) and start a conversation.
• Wrap the desired behavior change in the emotional value of reinventing a better life for themselves, helping their children adopt family values, and nurturing their family in a loving, protective way.
• Provide a small dose of logic and fact-based support for desired behaviors.
• Return to emotion: Encourage clients to visualize how the desired behavior change will positively impact their lives and their children’s lives.
• Ask clients to share the steps they plan to make related to the desired behavior change, and connect those steps with their emotional need to reinvent a better life, nurture their children, or cement family values.