Leading with

Self-Mastery

Build Clarity, Courage, and Presence in Your Leadership

Your Corps Members are stretched thin. They need more than resilience, they need regulation.

 

The work your Corps Members do supporting mental health in high-need communities requires more than good intentions. It requires leaders who can stay grounded under pressure, recognize their automatic patterns before they undermine connection, and lead with presence even when the work is overwhelming.

High-stakes conversations with youth in crisis. Vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue. Complex family dynamics and systems navigation. Pressure to "fix" problems they can't control.

Reactive leadership doesn't work in these settings.

Youth, families, and communities need leaders who can stay present, regulate their own responses, and make values-aligned decisions even when everything feels urgent.

This program builds that capacity.

What This Course Develops:

Leading with Self-Mastery isn't stress management. It's self-regulation as a leadership skill. It is the capacity to interrupt reactive patterns, rebuild trust in your own judgment, and lead with clarity when clarity is hardest to access.

By the end of this program, your Corps Members will be able to:

✓ Regulate under pressure: Pause and respond intentionally instead of reacting from stress or overwhelm

✓ Strengthen decision-making: Recognize and interrupt cognitive bias before it undermines judgment

✓ Build trust with youth and families: Lead with consistency and presence, not volatility

✓ Align actions with values: Close the gap between the leader they want to be and the one who shows up in crisis

✓ Sustain focus in chaos: Maintain attention on what matters in high-demand, multi-crisis environments

This program is grounded in decades of research on attention regulation, emotional intelligence, and executive functioning-not motivational fluff.

COURSE  STRUCTURE & DESIGN

  8 Live Sessions | 90–100 Minutes Each

Each session focuses on one core dimension of self-regulation in leadership: 

The curriculum progresses through eight interconnected domains:

  1. Presence and the Now: 
  2. Automaticity and Habitual Leadership Patterns 
  3. Judgment and Cognitive Bias
  4. Acceptance and Reality-Based Leadership 
  5. Goals and Intentional Action 
  6. Compassion in Leadership Practice 
  7. Ego, Identity, and Authority  
  8. Integration and Application 

Between Sessions:

  • Micro-practices: Brief, practical exercises embedded in your daily workflow (15–30 minutes)
  • Participant workbook: Guided reflection and application exercises
  • Peer dialogue: Small cohort size (max 30 participants) for meaningful exchange 
Delivery Options
  • Live Virtual Cohort: Weekly sessions via Zoom
  • In-Person Intensive: Full curriculum delivered over 2 consecutive days

All formats maintain the same rigor, facilitation quality, and learning outcomes.

Who This Is For

This program is for:

  • Emerging leaders and managers navigating their first leadership roles
  • Mid-level directors and supervisors building credibility and influence
  • High-performing individual contributors stepping into formal authority
  • Anyone leading from the middle who's tired of second-guessing themselves

This program is NOT for you if:

  • You're looking for quick fixes or "leadership hacks"
  • You're unwilling to engage in reflection or practice
  • You want passive, lecture-style learning
  • You need clinical support (this is leadership development, not therapy)

FACULTY LEADERSHIP...

This course is facilitated by Think For Good’s leadership team, bringing deep experience in leadership development, cognitive behavioral coaching, neuro-linguistic programming, and applied adult learning. Our facilitation emphasizes rigor, reflection, and real-world leadership application.

At the helm is Tray T.S. Deadwyler-the founder of Think For Good, Inc., a certified cognitive behavioral coach and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner with over two decades of leadership experience.


He is also the author of The Contemplative Morning, a guide to reflection and resilience built on 40 daily insights rooted in ancient wisdom and contemplative practice. The book's core themes: intentionality, courage, service, resilience, and love, align closely with the principles embedded in this curriculum. Both emerge from the same commitment: helping leaders build sustainable practices grounded in clarity, values, and presence.


Tray's approach combines evidence-based frameworks with the kind of rigor that comes from years of walking alongside leaders navigating high-stakes decisions, organizational change, and the tension between what leadership demands and what leaders can sustain. This isn't borrowed content. It's a framework refined through research, practice, and lived experience.

This pushed me to reflect on my on approach to certain situations and to "slow down" my thought process and my understanding of what is means to be present.

I've been applying what I've learned from these sessions to balance the workload that has increased over the last year. It helps me stay balanced and not to burn out. In addition to minimize stress.

The framework for noticing how I move through the world is really eye opening, and also very forgiving, since it recognizes that this is a practice that we need to keep doing in steps every day.

Investment

8-WEEK VIRTUAL COHORT

$497

Per Member

  • Weekly 90-100 minute live sessions (8 total)
  • $497 per Corps member
  • Group rate: $397/member for 5+ from same site
  • No minimum required
  • Includes: Live facilitation, workbook, certificate, session recordings
  • Best for: Distributed teams or members balancing multiple commitments

2-DAY IN-PERSON INTENSIVE

$7,500

Per Site Flat Fee

  • Condense the full 8-session curriculum into 2 consecutive days
  • $7,500 flat fee (15-25 Corps Members) 
  • Minimum 15 participants required
  • Includes: All materials, participant workbooks, certificates
  • Your site provides: Venue, meals/snacks during sessions, A/V setup
  • Best for: Sites wanting deep immersion and team cohesion

WHY THIS INVESTMENT MATTERS

The cost of reactive leadership in mental health settings isn't measured in dollars, it's measured in:

  • Youth who disengage because they didn't feel seen
  • Corps Members who burn out mid-year
  • Crises that escalate because leaders couldn't regulate their own response
  • Families who stop trusting your servant leaders

This program doesn't prevent stress. It builds the capacity to lead through it.

Your Corps members will use these tools every single day-in crisis interventions, family meetings, supervision conversations, and moments when everything feels urgent and nothing feels clear.

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