Hi. I am currently facilitating a three meeting book group in Sylva, NC in concert with my local library (Jackson County Public Library) and co-sponsored by a new local group, the Compassion Jackson Coalition, whose goal is to provide education/activities on trauma, resilience and healing in order to move our rural community toward greated empathy and connection. We purchased the book for 10 participants, and I created a packet for them along with a powerpoint to lead us through the book. Our group is a mixture of professionals, educators and community individuals so the powerpoint is intended to unpack some of the introduced concepts to help us better answer the questions. The powerpoint includes some short explanatory videos (including Dr Perry explaining the brain bottom to top processing, one on regulation/co-regulation, one on the ACES study and one on addiction & connection) and some regulatory reset and connection activities. Our final meeting will include a brainstorming session on how our local community & organizations can become more trauma informed and move toward resilience and healing. We are holding this book group as a Beta test with the hope that we can hold more! I attended several of the training sessions and WHTY book group via PACES. This book - especially the audio version - is so accessible for the lay person as well as professionals. I love it - and learned about it through PACES so thank you (: