These guides develop your learning through guided discussions/contemplation and close with a hands-on group activity and a one-page summary that participants can carry into their daily work. Ideal for staff training, team book clubs, and community-based learning circles.

Whether on your own or in a group, this book study guide provides a roadmap for powerful conversations and contemplation about trauma, resilience, and healing with this discussion guide for What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry. Organized into three sessions covering the full book, each section offers key themes, reflective discussion points, guided questions, and facilitator tips designed to help nonprofit and social service teams move from asking "What's wrong with you?" to "What happened to you?"

The Executive Function & Time Management Toolkit is a comprehensive, self-paced diagnostic and strategy kit is designed to help leaders understand their cognitive workflows, optimize time allocation, and build sustainable habits for peak productivity.

What’s Included:

• Self-Assessment: Evaluate core executive function skills—including planning, task initiation, working memory, and emotional regulation.

• Scoring & Style Profiles: Identify your personal time management style—The Navigator, The Strategist, The Juggler, or The Builder—and discover your specific strengths, challenges, and growth opportunities.

• Best Practices Reference: Access high-impact, practical strategies like time blocking, micro-stepping, body doubling, and "If/Then" contingency planning.

• Action-Planning Worksheet: Map personalized best practices directly onto key operational domains for immediate implementation.

Best Used For: Personal professional development, 1:1 coaching, or team workshops aimed at reducing cognitive load and transforming how you manage time and energy.

The Facilitating Forward Progress Toolkit is a practical, trauma-informed resource that helps facilitators, leaders, and educators cultivate felt safety, read group dynamics, and navigate complex conversations with attunement and clarity.

What’s Included:

• Facilitation Basics Check-In: A self-assessment tool to gauge your facilitation style—identifying whether you are an Emerging Facilitator, Attuned Apprentice, Connection Builder, or Safety Architect.

• Common Language & Skills Guide: A foundational reference establishing core mindsets and skill sets—such as attunement, felt safety, holding neutrality, and intentional scaffolding.

• Effective Open-Ended Questions Framework: A structured question bank broken down by group stage (Opening, Divergent Thinking, Convergent Thinking, Navigating Friction, and Closing) to drive engagement.

• Scaffolding & Strategy Playbook:Step-by-step techniques for guiding groups through brainstorming, prioritizing, and back-design strategizing using visual aids, peer support, and feedback loops.

• Group Dynamics & Derailment Guide: An actionable troubleshooting guide mapping Tuckman’s stages of group development alongside proven strategies for navigating 10 common participant profiles with empathy and composure.

Best Used For: Facilitation workshops, team alignment sessions, community coalition building, and personal professional development for leaders guiding high-stakes or multi-stakeholder groups.

CMLI’s Goal‑Setting Worksheet helps leaders turn intentions into focused, measurable action. It guides users to clarify the change they want to create, assess current conditions, anticipate barriers, identify supports, and outline the knowledge and resources needed for success. With built‑in 7‑, 30‑, and 60‑day checkpoints, it supports accountability, steady progress, and alignment with trauma‑responsive, equity‑centered leadership practice.