Recovery · 15–25 MIN · ADULTS / FACILITATED GROUPS

Design a Minimum-Capacity Day

Move a finite set of planning tokens between needs, responsibilities, and rest.

UNDERSTAND

What is happening here?

Capacity changes with health, sleep, stress, disability, care demands, and resources. This is a planning metaphor, not a biological energy measurement. Making a day smaller can preserve essential care and make barriers visible. A realistic plan includes help and recovery time rather than treating rest as a reward.

Conceptual background

SAMHSA · About recovery. This reference supports the broad concept; it does not validate or endorse this original exercise.

PRACTICE WITH PURPOSE

How to use it

Imagine twelve planning tokens for a fictional day. Assign them freely; there is no ideal distribution.
Notice what gets squeezed when demands increase. Adjust the budget or name a support.
Choose a minimum version of one task for a lower-capacity day.

Allocate & adapt

Explore · Adjust · Reflect

Your workspace

Use a fictional or manageable example. Responses stay in this tab and are not submitted or automatically saved. Export and print include what you enter. You may observe, adapt, or pass.

MAKE IT USEFUL

Notice. Discuss. Take one thing.

Which demand needs accommodation?What support changes the budget itself?One small next step, adaptation, or question to bring to a session

Choose another experience

For thoughtful facilitation

Open with the concept, demonstrate one fictional example, allow individual exploration or paired discussion, and close with one optional takeaway. Ask what fits the participant’s culture, language, access needs, and present capacity. Invite observation instead of disclosure; do not interpret participation as a measure of motivation.

Fit and care: Do not use this tool to ration food, sleep, medication, or medically necessary care.

Original AI-assisted educational activity; independent clinical review pending. This is not an assessment, a complete treatment protocol, or emergency care. No automated risk scoring or outcome claims are made.