Saturday Sessions/Workshops

Project Restore Minnesota offers culturally specific programming for youth residents at the Juvenile Detention Center. Specifically, we provide a learning environment that centers on personal development, culture, critical thinking, conflict resolution, and building interpersonal skills. Workshops are provided in person every Saturday afternoon, rotating pods every week.

The Saturday sessions allow young people to interact with the Project Restore support team, learn from PowerPoint presentations, and engage in intentional thought-provoking dialogues. Additionally, we work through the curriculum co-created by Lewis McCaleb, one of our lead workshop facilitators. The Deconstruction Zone™ is a culturally based personal development system designed to lead us to a more permanent state of Self-Worth 2.0.

Deconstruction Zone explores our cultures, histories, and identities, where we examine the stories told about ourselves and the narratives we’ve believed about ourselves. We turn the concept of Social Determinants of Health on its head and upside down by bringing out the talent in each person, increasing self-awareness, and participating in a unique process of unlearning created to help us develop a new narrative along the way.

What youth get from the Deconstruction zone: Deconstruction Zone is a personal and business development system, written as a mind maze and heart obstacle course, designed to:

1) Explore our histories

2) Become aware of the people, places, and things we plug into and hook up to

3) Unravel our own, often tricky webs

4) Learn the benefits of minding our own business - and reconsider what our own business could be and is.

5) Achieve our own goals and dreams.