Cohort Workbook
Note
Status: concept only. company/strategy/business-plan.md §5.1 commits to each family
leaving the four-session program with a written term plan and a workbook they keep; no workbook
content has actually been drafted yet. This document is a starting brief for whoever drafts it,
not the workbook itself.
What the workbook needs to accomplish
The workbook’s job, per the business plan, is twofold: it’s the artifact that makes the term plan concrete and portable (something the family takes home and can actually refer back to, rather than the term plan existing only as notes taken during Session 4), and it’s the physical reinforcement of everything covered across all four sessions — so a family who only fully absorbs part of what’s discussed live still has the rest in a form they can return to later, in their own time, in whichever of the delivery languages the cohort was run in.
There’s also a second, larger role for this document described in
company/strategy/business-plan.md §5.4 and company/strategy/growth-plan.md: the
plain-language guides currently in development are meant to become this workbook, which gives
that half-finished guide material a concrete deadline, a specific first reader (the families in
cohort #1), and real feedback from actual use before any wider publication is considered. That
means the workbook isn’t purely an internal teaching aid — it’s also the first real-world test of
material that may eventually be published more broadly, so it’s worth drafting with that eventual
wider audience in mind from the start, not just as disposable session handouts.
What still needs to happen
Nothing in this document should be read as the workbook’s actual content — that’s genuinely new
authorship, dependent on the session scripts in
consulting/curriculum/session-scripts.md being written first, since the
workbook needs to reflect and reinforce whatever those sessions actually cover rather than being
drafted independently of them.