Browse Our Insightful Booklets/E-Booklets on Diversity

What is assertiveness? Why is it difficult? Why is it necessary? What will assertiveness accomplish? How do you do assertiveness? This 192-page resource will answer these questions. We’ll suggest a variety of relationship skills to enhance safety, mutual understanding, trust, and intimacy. We’ll highlight differences between aggression and assertiveness, misplaced guilt and justified guilt, and the costs of living non-assertively. You will learn how to connect with yourself and others. This will give you a foundation for responding to discrimination and for handling interpersonal conflicts and emotions well.

We’ll provide a framework for understanding how and why we as humans copy our relationship dynamics from our caregivers and cultures. This framework may help you decide which dynamics to continue and which to replace. We’ll discuss developing skills of self-care, resilience, and coping, including making decisions about alcohol and drug use. We’ll suggest dating guidelines and how to act assertively in sexual situations. Throughout, we’ll highlight how assertiveness helps build internal and social sustainable peace. This will not be a light read.

Although this booklet is meant to help everyone, we’ll describe how sexual/gender diversity and living assertively are related.

Which price fits your resources? Coauthors receive 100% of the payment and also want their booklet available to everyone. Audiobooks are coming later.

In this 128-page resource, readers will examine their agreement and disagreement to a range of traditional/conservative and liberal/progressive attitudes about gender/sexual diversity. We’ll describe how we can change attitudes and how to understand why sexually/gender-diverse individuals tend to have poorer health. We’ll offer current research and an inclusive answer to the question, “Can people change their sexual orientation and gender?” and which harmful assumptions and behaviors about gender/sexual diversity to avoid. We’ll also differentiate between aggressive/passive affirmative approaches and assertive affirmative approaches.  

Which price fits your resources? Coauthors receive 100% of the payment and also want their booklet available to everyone.

Sexuality and gender expression are complex aspects of being human. We hope the ideas, questions, and experiences in our 95-page resource will increase your understanding, curiosity, and knowledge of sexual/gender diversity and how it relates to gender, gender-role orientation, gender-body congruence, sexual orientation, romantic orientation, sexuality, and sexual/gender identity. We’ll include graphs where you can rate how strong, persistent, consistent, or changing your sexual, romantic, and emotional attractions and aversions are to men, women, and nonbinary individuals and to any preferred sexual interests. We’ll also include  graphs for you to identify the strengths, persistence, and fluidity of your resonance and dissonance to embody male, female, and ambiguous sex characteristics and express cultural gender roles. This knowledge and awareness may help you clarify your sexual orientation, gender, and gender role-orientation; develop self-acceptance; and consider what you need for personal/social congruence (live true to who you are). 

We also provide information for parents/caregivers of gender-diverse youth that outlines various circumstances when youth experience distress about their gender/assigned biological sex and how to support them in their well-being, exploration, and self-development.

We hope our 60-page resource enhances your knowledge, skills, and confidence regarding sexuality and consent. We will provide a nuanced look at sexual expression and interest, such as pornography and masturbation, as well as health practices, such as decisions about sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and using sexual values as a guide. We’ll offer examples throughout about consent and sexual assertiveness. Readers will also learn how to develop their sexual self-concept and a positive body image and heal from sexual trauma/abuse.

This booklet describes what to do when your family is experiencing conflicts about sexual/gender diversity. It is designed for all family members, especially parents/caregivers of LGBTQIA+ children, as well as LGBTQIA+ individuals who feel disconnected from their family. We also include support for siblings and extended family members. We’ll describe how LGBTQIA+ individuals must often create their own “family of choice” due to rejection from their family of origin. To promote family resilience and flourishing, we’ll describe how to co-create family safety, common shared goals, and connection. 

Readers will learn how to use their mind-body to reduce their emotional distress (self-regulate) to respond more effectively to conflicts and stress. A summary of the peacemaking protocol used for this book project will also be provided. This protocol describes how to dialogue and hold one viewpoint in mind at a time (yours or another’s) and develop the skills to hold two (yours and another’s) or more viewpoints together and how this empathy relates to security and growth. The ability to consider differing viewpoints is essential for family members who want to resolve conflicts assertively, including those related to sexual/gender diversity. Without these experiences of mutual care and understanding, families begin to stop sharing themselves with each other, begin to hide from one another, and eventually splinter. 

We hope the ideas, skills, and experiences presented in this resource help family members across political divides find strength together while retaining their  individual differences regarding sexual/gender diversity.