The Women's Workshop Notebook is the tool used in the nine-week course designed for the mature woman returning to school at Antelope Valley College. The notebook exercises along with the group interaction and instruction stress the importance of personal assessment of strengths, weaknesses, dreams, deliberations and life history in decision-making. The assumption is that a woman must know her assets, limitations, and ambitions before she can effectively and fruitfully engate in career, personal, or educational redirection. Because women possess varied and complex personalities, the exercise ranging from the management survey to the personal history journal experience, are aimed at altering each woman to another aspect of her self. The versatility of the exercises duplicated in the notebook makes them useful at other times of transition in the woman's life. (Author/VG)