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Find Your ServiceMaxOut directive Mindset · Choice · Mission
If you can change your mind, I can help you change your life.
Dr. Charles Dent brings the discipline of a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and the practical insight of a trauma-informed educator, coach, pastor, author, and trainer to one central mission: helping people turn honest reflection into responsible action.
U.S. Marine Corps VeteranAll-Marine Judo ChampionWilliam Glasser ScholarTrauma-Informed Algorithm® Creator
Mission brief 01 Choose your path
Start with the support environment that fits your responsibility.
MaxOut does not force every visitor into the same solution. Choose the route that best matches who you are responsible for and what needs to change.
MaxOut operating system Nine principles
Change becomes durable when insight becomes discipline.
Dr. Dent’s Nine Principles move from honest self-confrontation to consistent self-discipline. Together, they provide a practical structure for changing the beliefs, choices, relationships, and habits that shape a life.
Face what is true.
Self-Confrontation
Examine the beliefs, values, attitudes, intentions, behaviors, and habits that shape where you are now.
Recognize what is possible.
Self-Realization
Name your strengths, challenge self-doubt, and take ownership of the goals and values that guide your growth.
Study your internal pattern.
Self-Reflection
Pay attention to your thoughts, emotional state, decisions, and attitude so insight can lead to a wiser response.
Know yourself in the moment.
Self-Awareness
Notice your actions, reactions, experiences, and biases without judgment so you can change perspective and respond with intention.
Steward your own growth.
Self-Interest
Clarify your why, practice responsible self-care, and build the moral compass and motivation required for healthy contribution.
Lead what is in your control.
Self-Leadership / Self-Control
Manage your words, emotions, focus, and choices with integrity—especially when pressure and frustration test your direction.
Read the environment well.
Social Awareness
Strengthen empathy, boundaries, and relational judgment so you can navigate people and difficult situations responsibly.
Measure against the standard.
Self-Assessment
Evaluate performance, identify strengths and gaps, pivot when needed, and maintain standards that support continued growth.
Stay with the assignment.
Self-Discipline
Regulate reactions, resist distractions, and keep pursuing what is right when effort, repetition, and endurance are required.
Framework 02 Trauma-Informed Algorithm®
Awareness is only the beginning. The next question is: what do we do differently?
Developed by Dr. Charles Dent, the Trauma-Informed Algorithm® is an integrative educational framework that helps educators and organizations translate trauma awareness into relationship-centered, responsible practice.
Explore the frameworkSafetyChoiceCapacity
- 01Trauma-Informed Care
- 02Choice Theory
- 03Reality Therapy
- 04ACT
- 05Mental Freedom Framework
- 06Whole-System Application
Ways to work together
Choose the right level of support for the mission in front of you.
Every pathway begins with clear goals, responsible scope, and a practical next step.
Coaching & personal growth
Coaching & Personal Growth
Clarify goals, challenge limiting beliefs, strengthen habits, and turn insight into responsible action.
Relationships & families
Relationship Support
Build healthier communication, boundaries, shared responsibility, and connection.
Veteran resilience
Veteran-Informed Support
Navigate transition, identity, purpose, relationships, and the demands of life after service.
Trauma-informed support
Trauma-Informed Support
Understand how trauma may shape patterns while building choice, safety, support, and responsible next steps.
Built through service Marine Corps foundation
Standards matter. So does the person carrying the weight.
Dr. Dent’s Marine Corps service formed an enduring respect for preparation, standards, accountability, service, and the disciplined choices that make growth sustainable.
- Provided career, educational, personal-development, and transition guidance to Marines
- Worked within military regulations and exacting administrative standards
- All-Marine Judo Champion
- Later supported veterans, military families, and military-affiliated students through education, peer support, resilience training, and resource navigation
Military service is presented as lived experience and a leadership foundation. MaxOut is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Marine Corps, Department of Defense, or Department of Veterans Affairs.
Field resources Books by Dr. Dent
Tools for reflection, patience, relationships, and responsible growth.
Explore verified works grounded in faith, personal responsibility, and the choices that form character.
Explore the Books
Organizational capacity Training & speaking
Healthy leaders create healthier environments.
Bring Dr. Dent’s trauma-informed, choice-centered, and military-grounded approach to your school, church, organization, community, or event.
Your next responsible move
If you can change your mind, I can help you change your life.
Schedule a brief consultation to clarify your goals, confirm the right MaxOut pathway, and decide whether working together is a good fit.