Self-paced course · Book Two of the Objectification Series
Alongside the people in the room — not instead of them.
Dr. Donetta D. Quinones, PhD, LMHC, LPC · GraceRoot Relationship Healing Institute
Who this is for
If you have felt genuinely close to a voice, a face, or a channel that has never heard of you, and would rather understand that than be teased about it, this course is for you. It is also for parents, teachers, coaches and youth workers who can see something happening with a young person and have no words for it beyond an argument about hours.
No background in psychology is assumed, and you do not have to have read the book to take the course.
What you will be able to do
Dr. Donetta D. Quinones, PhD, LMHC, LPC is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed professional counselor, a certified Human Behavior Consultant, and the founder of GraceRoot Relationship Healing Institute. This course is built from her book Everyone I’ve Never Met, one module per chapter, in the book's order.
The teaching is trauma-informed and plain-spoken. Every person and scene in the course is a fictional composite. Nothing here is a diagnostic instrument, and no arrangement of answers — none, in any combination — produces a finding about you or about anybody you know.
The twelve modules
One module per chapter of the book. Each takes between thirty-five minutes and an hour, and each is built the same way: a short opening scene, three to five terms defined in ordinary words, the teaching itself, a worked example you watch, a half-finished example you complete, and one small practice you can do alone this week.
| 01 | The Person Who Doesn’t Know You Exist What parasocial attachment is and is not | 45 min |
| 02 | Circle One Evidence, Circle Four Intimacy How media collapses the layers of trust | 55 min |
| 03 | Learning to Feel by Watching What media genuinely gives us | 50 min |
| 04 | Borrowed Identity Building a self from strangers | 50 min |
| 05 | The Machine That Learned What You Reach For When the extraction gets automated | 55 min |
| 06 | Emotional Dumping at Scale Venting, dumping, and audience consent | 45 min |
| 07 | The Reasons We Give Justification, excuses, and not noticing | 55 min |
| 08 | A Million People, One Person How a crowd objectifies one person | 50 min |
| 09 | The Other Side of the Glass What being watched costs the watched | 50 min |
| 10 | What It Costs the Watcher Comparison, erosion, company and contact | 50 min |
| 11 | Filters, Not Walls Rebuilding the circles on purpose | 55 min |
| 12 | The Actual People in Front of You Mutual recognition in a mediated world | 45 min |
Format & what you get
Price
$149
One payment. Self-paced, revisit any time, and questions go to support@graceroot.institute.
Questions people actually ask
No. The course is not built on the idea that one-sided attachment is a defect to be cut out. It gives something real, and the material says so. What it teaches is where it substitutes — and the difference between alongside and instead.
No. The course stands on its own and assumes no background in psychology. It follows the book's twelve chapters in order.
Yes — it was written with you in mind as well. The course gives you language for what you are watching, which is generally more useful than an argument about screen hours.
About 10 hours in total, in modules of 35 to 60 minutes, at whatever pace you set. Nothing is timed.
Into your own browser, on your own device, and nowhere else. Nothing you type is sent to the author or to any server.
Everyone You Have Never Met
By the end of this course you can explain, to somebody else and in ordinary words, how a stranger on a screen comes to hold an inner-circle position on outer-circle evidence, and you have practiced two or three small checks that need nobody’s permission to run.
GraceRoot courses are psychoeducational learning programs, not emergency care, legal advice, or a replacement for therapy. Certificates document GraceRoot completion. Court, employer, board, or continuing education acceptance should be confirmed before purchase unless a page states a specific approval.