What We Do
Voices of Origin transforms research into practical education, prevention, and repair-centered programs that help communities interrupt patterns of harm before they become irreversible.
Prevention Programs
Programs that strengthen emotional regulation, healthy relationships, accountability, and nonviolent responses to conflict.
Community Education
Workshops, talks, and learning spaces that help people understand emotional responsibility, relational power, violence prevention, and repair.
Community & Institutional Partnerships
Collaborations with schools, justice settings, faith communities, nonprofits, families, and local organizations to adapt this work to real community needs.
Facilitator Training
Training for educators, community leaders, organizations, and institutions that want to bring prevention and repair-centered practices into their 2own settings.
Glass Masculinities
Glass Masculinities is a concept developed by Dalia M. LaFontaine through her doctoral research on masculinity, power, and feminicide in Puerto Rico.
It describes forms of masculinity that may appear strong, dominant, or controlled on the outside, but are fragile within. These identities often depend on being respected, obeyed, recognized, or validated—especially within intimate relationships.
When that sense of authority feels threatened by rejection, separation, autonomy, humiliation, loss of control, or perceived disrespect, the person may experience the moment as a collapse of identity. This does not excuse harm. It helps explain why some men narrate violence as a reaction, a defense, or something that felt inevitable.
Naming Glass Masculinities helps identify the pattern before the fracture—so emotional regulation, relational responsibility, accountability, and new ways of living masculinity can be practiced earlier.
The TEMPERED Model
TEMPERED is the practical framework of Voices of Origin. It translates research into education, prevention, accountability, and repair.
The model was designed for communities and institutions where identity, stress, power, and relationships shape behavior. Many systems try to change behavior through rules, punishment, or information alone. TEMPERED works beneath the visible behavior—where emotional activation, rigid identity patterns, relational stress, power, and meaning-making influence how people respond under pressure.
TEMPERED helps people build the capacities to pause, regulate, reflect, take responsibility, and choose differently. It is organized around eight integrated dimensions:
Tempering
Building resilience, discipline, and accountability through reflection and practice—not domination, suppression, or emotional numbness.
Emotional Regulation
Developing the capacity to identify and regulate emotional activation without collapsing into impulsive, avoidant, coercive, or harmful behavior.
Mindful Awareness
Cultivating awareness of internal states, relational triggers, interpretations, and behavioral impulses before acting.
Pathways of Repair
Supporting movement from harm or rupture toward responsibility, repair, and more constructive relational patterns.
Embodied Learning
Using experiential and body-attuned learning to understand how emotion, stress, history, and relationships shape action.
Relational Responsibility
Strengthening the capacity to recognize one’s impact on others and engage relationships with greater integrity.
Empathy & Ethical Reflection
Cultivating perspective-taking, moral reflection, and awareness of the human consequences of behavior.
Developmental Change
Recognizing change as a process, not a single event, and supporting new capacities over time.
TEMPERED Applications
TEMPERED can be adapted across settings where stress, identity, power, and relationships shape behavior.
TEMPERED Justice
For correctional, reentry, and justice settings focused on relational accountability, emotional regulation, violence prevention, and safer reintegration.
TEMPERED Youth
For schools, colleges, and youth-serving programs focused on emotional literacy, healthy relationships, consent, conflict regulation, leadership, and peer accountability.
TEMPEREDÂ Faith
For churches, ministries, and faith communities focused on relational integrity, family violence prevention, truth-telling, dignity, and repair.
TEMPEREDÂ Service
For military, veterans, first responders, and service communities focused on stress response, identity transition, family wellbeing, and responsible leadership.
TEMPERED Community
For nonprofits, families, local organizations, and community programs focused on dialogue, prevention education, emotional responsibility, and community-based repair.
