Who INpowers you. Who depletes you. And who are you afraid to reach.
Tyshaun Perryman, MA
Founder & Principal Consultant · Insightful Recovery Solutions LLC
NIH CHORUS co-author
The Premise
Your network is either building you or keeping you still. And the people who could elevate your work the most are usually the ones you haven't reached out to yet — not because they're unavailable, but because you haven't fully believed you have the right to.
What This Lab Is About
Most people in peer and recovery work build networks that run sideways — same level, same field, same rooms. This lab changes that. It maps who is actually in your circle, names what direction the energy moves in those relationships, and identifies the leaders you've been hesitant to reach — and why. The hesitation is where the work lives.
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Two columns. INpowers. Depletes. Names go in honestly. Not good people versus bad people — which relationships are building your capital and which ones are consuming it.
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Three rings. Active. Connected. Within Reach. Place every name where it actually sits — not where you wish it sat. Then name the leader you haven't reached and the real reason you haven't.
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Not a plan. One specific reach in the next seven days. Who, what you'll say, what you're bringing. Written like it's already decided — because it is.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
Pre-Lab Reflections
Take a few minutes before the lab to sit with these. Your responses save to your browser automatically — they remain private to you. The lab moves faster when you arrive with the names and the truth already on the page.
Pre-Lab Reflection 1 · Energy Direction
Name one person currently in your network who builds you up — and one who depletes you. What does each pattern look like in real moments?
Pre-Lab Reflection 2 · The Leader You Have Not Reached
Name one leader in your field — a decision-maker, someone whose room you have wanted to be in — that you have not reached out to yet. Don't write the logistical reason you haven't. Write the real one.
Pre-Lab Reflection 3 · The Move You Have Been Delaying
What is one move — one reach, one message, one conversation — that you have been delaying? Write it as if you have already decided to make it.
The Bridge — From Lab 1 to the Network
Look back at your Inner Authority Statement from Lab 1. Complete the sentence: “I am someone who acts from the inside — and I engage leaders who elevate because…”
The Missing Curriculum
Six labs. Three tiers. Each lab is independently valuable — you can start anywhere or build the complete arc. Lab 5 is the first lab in the Influence Tier — where the inside work meets the rooms that change what is possible for you.
Awareness · Labs 1–2
Inner AuthorityThe Rapid IOPT F*ck It Model
Capacity · Labs 3–4
Healing CapitalProfessional Identity & Leadership
Influence · Labs 5–6
Engagement & Network LeverageStrategic Impact & Systems Navigation
YOU ARE HERE
The Engagement Move you commit to in Lab 5 is not the destination. It is the beginning of a different relationship with the systems you operate inside of. Lab 6 takes the moves you make and builds the strategy around them — how you turn engagement into infrastructure, lived expertise into institutional weight.
Between Lab 5 and Lab 6, you watch what happens after you make the reach. Who responded. Who didn't. What changed in the room. That observation is live data Lab 6 works with directly.
Between sessions: Make the move. Track the response. Notice what the move costs you and what it returns. That is your data for Lab 6.
// Lab 6 full content TBD — outline placeholder pending Tyshaun's final framing.
Session Material
The complete Lab 5 worksheet — the Energy Map, the Network Map with three rings, the six conversation questions, the Engagement Move box, and the INpowered Network Statement. Type directly into the boxes — it auto-saves to your browser as you go.
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90 minutes. One Energy Map. One Network Map. One engagement move you commit to before you leave the room.
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