Lean 12x12 Recovery

Product Title: Flow & Recovery: Lean Thinking for Real-Life Transformation 🧩 Overview: What if recovery wasn’t just about abstinence, but about flow? This book blends Lean Thinking, the 12 Steps, value stream management, and human-centered design to help you clear the blockers in your life. Whether you’re navigating substance recovery, burnout, trauma, or transformation, Flow & Recovery offers structured tools to reduce friction, increase clarity, and generate steady, sustainable change. It’s a systems-thinking guide to inner work—built for people, not perfection. 📦 What You’ll Get: A full-length digital book (~200+ pages) Bonus Lean Recovery Journal (printable + Notion) AI-powered SponsorBot prompt bank Impact Estimation Tables & EBM-style metrics Value Stream Mapping & Kaizen tracker Optional secular section with daily worksheets Templates, charts, and companion exercises Fillable files for personal or group use 🙌 Who This Is For: People working the 12 Steps Sponsors and sponsees Non-12-step recovery practitioners Coaches, therapists, and Lean consultants Those recovering from burnout, trauma, or identity shifts Anyone designing a life based on value, not just survival 💡 Themes Explored: Progress over perfection Reducing waste in your emotional life Understanding flow and constraints Applying DMAIC, SIPOC, and root cause analysis to inner healing Forgiveness as Lean allocation Kaizen as daily practice Risk and resilience using FMEA Emotional and spiritual Gemba walks SponsorBot: prompt-based accountability coaching 📁 File Types Included: Full eBook (PDF + ePub + Print-ready version) Fillable worksheets Companion journal in printable and Notion formats Prompt decks + Planguage metrics templates 📚 TABLE OF CONTENTS (Finalized edition – 12-Step aligned with optional secular section) Section Title Foreword Flow Without Force Preface How Lean Thinking Meets Recovery Prologue A Brief History of Lean and the Search for Meaning 1 Value Streams of the Self 2 Removing Blockers: What Is Waste in Recovery? 3 Meetings as Just-In-Time Systems 4 The 12 Steps as Flow-Driven Design 5 Step 4 & 5 as Gemba Walk 6 Kaizen & the Sponsor as Kata Coach 7 Change Management & the Role of Willingness 8 Forgiveness as Lean Allocation 9 Emotional Load Balancing & Bottleneck Detection 10 Risk in Recovery: FMEA, Mistake-Proofing, and Root Cause 11 Progress Not Perfection: Lean Metrics and EBM 12 The 12 Traditions and Organizational Lean Appendix A SponsorBot Prompt Bank (AI-Powered Support) Appendix B Impact Estimation Tables & Planguage Tools Appendix C DMAIC & SIPOC in Recovery Work Appendix D Secular Recovery Toolkit (Optional path) Appendix E Companion Lean Recovery Journal Appendix F Resources, Hotline Directory, and Further Reading