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Books & resources · Featured bundle

The Recovery
Experience Bundle.

Learn, reflect, and put your strengths into practice. Bring the Recovery Experience into your hands and your everyday life, with printed resources and learning you can return to online.

  • Printed Recovery Experience Guide, Participant Edition
  • Printed Reflection System card deck
  • Digital Reflection System Companion Guide
  • Lifetime Recovery digital access for one participant
$179 one-time purchase

Printed Workbook sold separately. After purchase, submit learner details so we can confirm payment and arrange digital access. Strength Spark is not included.

Printed Recovery Experience Guide, Participant Edition
Recovery Experience Guide
Printed Reflection System cards
Reflection System
Plus the digital Companion Guide & lifetime Recovery learning

Books & workbooks

Choose your learning guide, then add a workbook for reflection and practice. These individual listings are printed resources.

Printed · Participant Edition Start from Strength Recovery Experience Guide Participant Edition

Recovery Experience Guide

Start with the learning journey. Explore your traits, identity, relationships, and everyday choices through structured learning and reflection. Pair it with the Workbook for personal practice.

Printed · Companion Workbook Start from Strength Recovery Experience Workbook

Recovery Experience Workbook

Make the learning your own. Structured exercises, writing space, practice tools, and seven-day trackers accompany all 40 Recovery lessons. Use alongside the Recovery Experience Guide.

Printed · Student Edition Start from Strength Prevention Experience Guide Student Edition

Prevention Experience Guide

A strengths-first introduction to identity, self-leadership, healthy relationships, balance, and purpose. For students and participants in the Prevention Experience.

Guide or Workbook? The Guide introduces the learning. The Workbook gives you exercises and writing space to make it personal. Digital course access is purchased separately or included in the Recovery Experience Bundle.
Looking for Prevention workbooks for Grades 3–12?

Ten grade-level editions support a connected journey from discovering strengths to identity, purpose, and leadership. Plan a school or program order for the grades and quantities you need.

Reflection for everyday life.

Choose cards alone or the cards with the digital Companion Guide. Use them on your own, with someone you trust, or in a group.

Printed · Cards only Start from Strength Reflection System

Reflection System Cards

Pause, choose a question, and explore how your strengths show up in everyday life. For personal reflection or conversation with a partner, group, or team. No course enrollment required.

Printed cards + digital guide Reflection System Bundle

Reflection System Bundle

The printed Reflection System cards plus the digital Companion Guide. A guided way to explore your traits and bring thoughtful questions into everyday reflection and conversation.

How do I use the Reflection System?

Choose a card that connects with something happening in your life. Pause with the question, write a few lines, or invite a conversation. Explore the ten traits and their light and shadow expressions, with prompts for reconnecting and returning to balance.

Resources for facilitators.

Choose the printed edition for the experience you facilitate. Training and certification are separate from a book purchase.

Printed · Facilitator Edition Start from Strength Recovery Experience Guide Facilitator Edition

Recovery Facilitator Edition

A guide for professionals facilitating the Recovery Experience. Support structured learning, reflection, and practical application. Facilitator training and certification are purchased separately.

Printed · Facilitator Edition Start from Strength Prevention Experience Guide Facilitator Edition

Prevention Facilitator Edition

A guide for professionals facilitating the Prevention Experience. Support strengths-centered learning and group reflection. Facilitator training and certification are purchased separately.

One enrollment. Recovery and Prevention.

Trait-Based Facilitator Certification

$499 per person

Earn the EKU Trait-Based Facilitator Certificate through a shared foundation and specialty training in Recovery and Prevention. Complete the requirements for each specialty you want to earn. Both specialties are included in the same $499 enrollment.

Recovery awards 10 continuing education (CE) hours approved by NAADAC. Prevention awards no CE hours. Leadership is a separate EKU certificate offering.

Required digital materials and your own participant access are included. Physical materials are purchased separately. Organizational licenses include the training allowance shown above.

Individual and group access

Start with yourself. Or the people you serve.

Explore the Trait-Based Model through Recovery or Prevention. Begin on your own or purchase access for a group, with no minimum number of participants.

Prevention

Prevention

One payment. Lifetime digital access to Prevention.

$45per student or participant
Begin Prevention — $45

Each purchase includes lessons, PDF guidebooks and workbooks, assessments and results, and standard reporting for the selected pathway. Organizational setup is included when purchasing for a group. Participate independently or with a facilitator.

Recovery and Prevention are purchased separately. Access to both is $90 per person. EKU Trait-Based Facilitator training includes Recovery and Prevention specialties for $499 per person. Printed books, workbooks, and Reflection System decks are optional purchases.

Enrolling yourself? Choose a pathway above, then use your own name and email at Teachable checkout. After payment, open your course and begin with Start Here. Prices are in USD; any applicable tax is shown at checkout. Buying for a group or someone else? Request assisted enrollment; we will confirm payment and collect each learner’s name and login email.

Access already arranged? Submit learner details. Already enrolled? Open My Courses.

Annual organizational licenses

Bring Start from Strength to your organization.

Annual organizational licenses include both Recovery and Prevention, digital materials, assessments and reporting, organizational setup, and facilitator training through Start from Strength.

Recovery + Prevention

Small

2 facilitator training places per paid year.

Up to 250 people served per license year
$8,000per year
Request this license
Recovery + Prevention

Medium

5 facilitator training places per paid year.

Up to 500 people served per license year
$15,000per year
Request this license
Recovery + Prevention

Large

10 facilitator training places per paid year.

Up to 1,000 people served per license year
$25,000per year
Request this license

Additional participants are $45 each beyond your included capacity. When the next license becomes less expensive, your total is capped at that license’s price and its training allowance applies. For more than 1,000 people, request a custom quote.

Each included training enrollment covers the shared foundation and Recovery and Prevention specialty training. Certification in each specialty requires successful completion of its requirements. Confirm EKU certificate arrangements for your organization. Places renew each paid license year for new or replacement staff. Existing certified facilitators do not need to repeat training. Unused places do not roll over. Additional facilitator training is $499 per person and includes Recovery and Prevention.

Participants keep their lifetime digital access when they leave an organization or its license ends. Annual renewal continues your organization’s implementation services and enrollment capacity. Physical resources are purchased separately.

Purchasing questions

A few useful details.

How do I buy books or the bundle?

Open the product, choose a quantity, and select Add to Cart to keep shopping or Buy now to go to checkout. Review your items and total before payment. Use View cart to review a multi-item order. Any applicable shipping and tax are determined at checkout.

How do I receive the bundle’s digital access?

After purchase, submit the participant’s name and login email. We confirm payment and arrange Recovery access and the digital Companion Guide. Use your existing course email if already enrolled. For help, contact [email protected]. The printed Workbook is sold separately; its PDF is included with Recovery digital access.

Ordering for a group or restocking?

Request an assisted order for multiple learners, bulk materials, invoices, or organizational purchasing.

How do I log in and start?

For an individual online purchase, use your own name and email at checkout. Follow any secure account-confirmation instructions Teachable sends, then open My Courses, select your purchased course, and begin with Start Here. That page leads you to the digital guide, workbook, assessments, and lessons. For group or organizational access, we confirm payment and arrange enrollment using each learner’s name and email from our enrollment form. Existing learners should use their existing account. If a purchased course is missing, contact us rather than purchasing again.

Can an organization use per-person pricing?

Yes. Organizations can purchase $45 access for any number of people in the selected pathway. Facilitator training is purchased separately.

What does lifetime access include?

Continued access to the purchased pathway’s lessons, PDF materials, assessments and results, and standard participant reporting. Access stays with the participant when an organizational license ends and continues if we move to a new learning platform.

What renews each year?

Organizational licenses renew annually for implementation services, enrollment capacity, and the included facilitator-training allowance. Participants’ existing lifetime digital access does not require annual renewal.

Are printed materials included?

The Recovery Experience Bundle includes the printed Participant Guide and Reflection System cards. Other individual listings include the printed item named. Digital-only participant access includes PDF materials; printed copies are purchased separately.

What certificates and CE hours does facilitator training include?

The $499 individual enrollment through EKU includes the shared foundation and Recovery and Prevention specialty training. Earn an EKU certificate and a Trait-Based Facilitator certificate upon successful completion. Recovery awards 10 continuing education (CE) hours approved by NAADAC; Prevention awards no CE hours. For training included in an organizational license, confirm EKU certificate arrangements with us. Explore facilitator training.