Recovery · 15–25 MIN · ADULTS / FACILITATED GROUPS
Make Room in the Weekend
Allocate planning tokens to obligations, recovery supports, enjoyment, and rest.
Try the experienceUNDERSTAND
What is happening here?
Unstructured time can offer freedom and also increase decision load. A visual budget makes competing needs easier to discuss. Tokens are a metaphor, not a recommendation for hours or a measure of how much recovery effort someone should make.
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
- Treat the tokens as a planning metaphor, not a measure of health or worth.
- Allocate them to the available categories and inspect the tradeoffs.
- Name a smaller task and a support that changes what is possible.
Allocate & adapt
Explore · Adjust · ReflectYour 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.
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: Use manageable or fictional examples and adapt within competence. This is educational practice, not diagnosis, crisis care, or individualized treatment.
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.