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As a wraparound provider, when I travel to a conference and listen to a stranger talk about his wraparound experience, he need only use a few words such as,“hard to find community resources,”“the difficulty of really using strengths,” “It’s a process,” and “fidelity” to readily communicate the complex set of experiences we both have had working in wraparound. I believe that understanding the neurobiological and conceptual processes that create the shared meanings ofthe words we use in practice will contribute to the adoption of more effective applications of the wraparound process.  \nThese words, exchanged with a fellow practitioner of wraparound, are expressions of shared understandings or ‘frames’ as first defined by the linguist, Charles Fillmore (1989). These frames are a reflection of shared neurobiological structures that we develop as a result of our parallel experiences. For example, the role of the child and family team facilitator and the conceptualization of the use of natural resources are two frames shared by those whose parallel activities in wraparound have created parallel neurobiological structure of those experiences. George Lakoff, a cognitive linguist, points out that,“Words are defined relative to frames and conceptual metaphors. Language “fits reality”to the extent that it fits our body and brain based understanding of that reality.”(Lakoff 2008 p. 15) . Lakoff argues that we reason and experience the world through these frames rather than by what is a false belief that we access irreducible objective representations of reality, the facts, in our brains. The frames communicated through the words ‘child and family team leader’ and ‘natural resources’ are defined by the neurobiological recording our experience that constrains and constitutes how we think in the wraparound process.  \nThere is, also, an all-important emotional component to our thinking about our work in wraparound. Antonio Damasio’s The Feeling of What Happens 1999 describes  \nthe frames that occur within our cultural narratives as maps that traverse our conscious and unconscious experience. They are both created by our (internal and external) experience and, in turn, are used to understand our experience. Damasio work reports that these maps of neuronal bundlings have “somatic markers” of emotional experience that result in synaptic emotional records being bundled together with our ideas. According to Damasio, our conscious and unconscious understanding is imbued with emotions that have a significant roll is guiding our thinking in the direction of a sense of well being and safety and away from distress and danger.  \nOur Bi-Conceptual Frames  \nLarger frames are narratives, or cultural stories, which consciously and unconsciously guide us every day.“ Narratives are frames that tell a story…. A narrative has a point to it, a moral. Its about how you should live your life----or how you shouldn’t.”(Lakoff 2008 p 250). In Thinking Points, 2006, George Lakoff states that there are, in our culture, two prototypical metaphoric narratives, utilizing a common family frame. These two narratives compose a dominant bi-conceptual moral understanding, which informs much of our thought. On the one hand, there is the narrative of the strict father family characterized by loyal devotion, self-reliance (related to the narrative of rugged individualism), and self-control. 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