Institutional analysis, narrative craft, and trauma-informed systems — built from Consent Without Language and the Authorian analytical model.
These materials were developed for educators, facilitators, and book groups working with Consent Without Language. They integrate three disciplinary lenses: how power operates structurally, how personal narrative reveals systemic architecture, and how consent, silence, and harm function within environments that present themselves as care.
Each resource is designed for a different teaching context. Use the full syllabus for a semester-length course. Use the modules independently or in sequence within existing courses. Use the discussion guide for any setting where the text is read closely.
A complete 16-week semester syllabus. Weekly schedule, seven graded assignments, rubric principles, and course policies. Designed for upper-division undergraduate or graduate elective in sociology, psychology, creative writing, or interdisciplinary studies.
Six standalone modules that can be inserted into existing courses or taught in sequence. Each includes learning objectives, a core Authorian framework, timed session plans, discussion questions, assignments, and facilitation notes.
Chapter-by-chapter questions, Authorian framework lenses, and facilitation notes. Covers all four acts and 32 chapters. Designed for any setting where the text is read closely — from university classrooms to book groups.
Each module introduces a core framework from the Authorian model.
How institutions encode identity before language arrives. The Authorian five-layer model applied to the opening boardroom scene.
Reward, punishment, shame, and silence — how institutions maintain the identities they encode.
What happens when institutional promises fail. The Fracture-Response Matrix: exit, deeper compliance, naming, or reabsorption.
Somatic encoding, narrative craft, and writing institutional experience. How memoir functions as structural evidence.
Analyzing recovery and treatment systems through the Authorian model. The Care/Containment Spectrum.
Building original analytical tools from recurring institutional dynamics. The Framework Development Protocol.
These materials are designed for interdisciplinary use. The frameworks operate across multiple fields and have been structured for adoption in any of the following contexts:
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