FROM THE INSIDE OUT:
RESTORATIVE REDEMPTION SYSTEM

A Transformative Curriculum for the incarcerated System Impacted

Syllabus

Course Format: Self-guided and paced workbook (PDF)
Length: 118-pages, 15 lessons, multiple systems
Objective: To educate, inspire, motivate, empower, and activate incarcerated System Impacted individuals toward personal transformation and reentry readiness through a spiritually grounded, psychologically sound, and entrepreneurially driven framework.

Orientation & Foundation

Opening: Message from DIVINE

  • Description: A personal message of authenticity, hope, and redemption from DIVINE, who walked the path from incarceration to entrepreneurship.

  • Objective: Establish trust, introduce the guide, and create an emotional and inspirational connection.

  • Key Outcome: Understand who DIVINE is and why this guide exists.

How to Use This Guide

  • Description: A practical walk-through of how to engage with the content, apply the lessons, and build new habits.

  • Objective: Equip the reader with tools to internalize the material and apply it progressively.

  • Key Outcome: Ability to create a self-paced learning rhythm.

Core Frameworks

Lesson 1: What is Restorative Redemption?

  • Description: A new definition and approach to redemption and restoration through spiritual growth and self-work.

  • Objective: Introduce foundational concepts: redemption, restoration, inner systems, and spiritual psychology.

  • Key Outcome: Begin to shift mindset from survival to spiritual and mental elevation.

Lesson 2: The 7 Pillars of Restorative Redemption

  • Description: The essential values and spiritual disciplines for transformation from within.

  • Objective: Define the internal foundation of the Restorative Redemption journey.

  • Key Outcome: Awareness of guiding principles to build character and purpose.

Narrative & Identity Reconstruction

Lesson 3: DIVINE’s Origin Story – From Crack to Rap to Tech

  • Description: A real-life narrative in three acts, demonstrating radical life change through self-discipline and belief.

  • Objective: Show the power of identity transformation and purposeful storytelling.

  • Key Outcome: Recognize one's own story arc and potential for rewriting it.

Strategic Self-Development

Lesson 4: The 7 Steps of DIVINE’s SRS (Successful Reentry System)

  • Description: A sequential roadmap for transition, reentry, and elevation based on DIVINE's real-life success journey.

  • Objective: Teach a replicable system built on awareness, access, mentorship, and support.

  • Key Outcome: Ability to map personal growth and strategic moves toward freedom and opportunity.

Lesson 5: Knowledge & Power

  • Description: Deconstructing the myth that “knowledge is power” and understanding applied knowledge as leverage.

  • Objective: Emphasize learning as a form of economic, social, and spiritual empowerment.

  • Key Outcome: Understand BLAK, and the role of positioning, proximity, and leverage.

Cognitive & Psychological Reprogramming

Lesson 6: Lifelong Learning

  • Description: Exploring the mindset of the urban entrepreneur and how to upskill from within.

  • Objective: Foster personal reinvention and economic empowerment through learning.

  • Key Outcome: Build a lifelong learning plan using current strengths and transferable skills.

Lesson 7: The Hero’s Journey & Storytelling

  • Description: Leveraging Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey to understand personal narrative as power.

  • Objective: Teach story structure for personal healing, branding, or interviews.

  • Key Outcome: Begin to frame one's redemption story for transformation and leadership.

Lesson 8: Positive Self-Imagery

  • Description: Rebuilding your internal view of yourself using vision and spiritual identity.

  • Objective: Teach visualization, faith-based identity work, and narrative replacement.

  • Key Outcome: Build confidence, self-vision, and identity as a future leader.

Rewiring The Mind

Lesson 9: Habits & The Subconscious Mind

  • Description: Exploring subconscious programming, childhood conditioning, theta state, and behavioral science.

  • Objective: Understand how to rewire the brain through habit, repetition, and belief.

  • Key Outcome: Reprogram destructive patterns and install winning behaviors.

Lesson 10: Growth Vs. Fixed Mindset

  • Description: Drawing from Carol Dweck’s research, this section breaks down beliefs that limit or liberate.

  • Objective: Replace fixed, fatalistic beliefs with growth-based, process-driven thinking.

  • Key Outcome: Recognize your ability to grow, evolve, and develop new skills at any age.

Mental Mastery & Emotional Intelligence

Lesson 11: Critical Thinking

  • Description: Introduces principles of analysis, reasoning, and decision-making.

  • Objective: Sharpen judgment, question assumptions, and evaluate choices.

  • Key Outcome: Make better decisions, avoid manipulation, and think independently.

Lesson 12: Emotional Intelligence

  • Description: Learn to identify, manage, and express emotions constructively.

  • Objective: Strengthen self-awareness, empathy, and communication.

  • Key Outcome: Build strong interpersonal skills and emotional control.

Healing & Transformation

Lesson 13: Trauma, Mental Health & Healing

  • Description: Unpacks early trauma, poverty-based mindsets, and survival psychology.

  • Objective: Begin the journey of healing and breaking cycles through understanding and support.

  • Key Outcome: Gain power over trauma with tools for recovery and self-care.

Power Skills & Life Execution

Lesson 14: Mastering Communication

  • Description: Develop powerful verbal skills, public speaking presence, and story delivery.

  • Objective: Prepare for interviews, leadership, and advocacy.

  • Key Outcome: Learn to speak with confidence, clarity, and conviction.

Lesson 15: S.M.A.R.T. Goals

  • Description: Introduces structured goal setting that aligns with personal growth.

  • Objective: Create actionable, measurable, and time-bound goals.

  • Key Outcome: Build a personal roadmap that can be tracked and achieved step-by-step.

Enrichment & Support

Recommended Books List

  • Description: A curated list of essential readings to extend personal development.

  • Objective: Encourage deep reading and reflection.

  • Key Outcome: Create a personal library of transformation.

Resources & Support

  • Description: Connect to programs, people, and platforms that offer assistance.

  • Objective: Build a community around your reentry and redemption journey.

  • Key Outcome: Gain access to tools and people that support your mission.

Completion & Next Steps

Closing: Final Words

  • Description: A final encouragement and charge from DIVINE to stay the course.

  • Objective: Solidify inner belief, purpose, and identity.

Key Outcome: Understand that the journey isn’t over—it’s just beginning.