Family Foundations Immersion

Join us ...

in our year-long Immersion for parents who are ready to create loving relationships, raise resilient children, and have more ease and enjoyment in daily family life.

Fill Your Toolbox, Build Your Relationships, and Learn the Foundations of Parenting alongside Vanessa and like-minded parents so that you can become the calm and empowered parent you were meant to be.

Discover Your Next Step

Why do parents join? These parents were ready for less stress and struggle in daily family life...

In the Immersion, you'll have wrap-around services...

Success Coaching

We'll meet monthly for powerful Skill-Building Group Training Calls with Vanessa to learn foundational parenting strategies together.

Q & A Sessions

Have your questions answered and get concrete action steps in monthly 'Ask an Expert' Q&A Calls with Vanessa and our expert panelist

Parenting Systems

You'll get done-for-you templates, handouts, guidebooks, and recordings of all training and Q&A calls in your online Personal Parenting Manual.

Group Support

Lean on your 24/7 Exclusive Facebook Group and your Personal Parent Support Team of parents in the program.

You'll have tickets to 2 exclusive parent retreats...

Emotional Mastery Weekend

You'll get the tools from experts to get a handle on your own emotions and to give your child powerful strategies to regulate their moods, express themselves, repair mistakes, and resolve conflicts. You'll share ideas with other parents so you can support each other this year and go forward with more calm, clarity, and confidence as a community striving together to thrive.

Motivation Mastery Weekend

Fill up your toolbox with research-tested practices that boost motivation, collaboration, and teamwork using less rewards and punishments. Learn how to inspire better listening, win your child's cooperation, and create a home environment that encourages learning and growth. Empower your children to find their flow, adopt a growth mindset, learn from mistakes, and strive in all areas of life.

What are the retreats like? What will I learn?

Like many parents, these parents were excited to create space to focus on their parenting and be with other parents...

You'll learn hot topics for overwhelmed parents...

Setting Limits that Stick, Connecting before Correcting, Navigating Big Emotions, Repairing after Mistakes, Finding Calm in the Chaos, Curbing Entitlement with Gratitude, Modeling Mood Management, Effective Family Meetings, Using Positive Time-Outs, Getting on the Same Page as a Family, Establishing Smooth Routines, Reigniting your Relationship, Fostering a Growth Mindset... AND MORE

Discover Your Next Step

And there are bonuses waiting for you...

7 COACHING SESSIONS (Value $3497)

Work privately with our expert coaches who will guide you in your goal-setting and troubleshoot issues as they come up. Get your questions answered and lean into the private support of a skilled mentor throughout the year.

RESILIENCE PROGRAM (Value $997)

This 9-Module Course will teach you how to harness key strategies, tools, and mindset shifts to boost your family's resilience and design your path to thriving. You'll get key guides for building rock-solid, lifelong relationships.

VIRTUAL VIP DAY (Value $297)

Spend half a day with Vanessa & the group mastering 10 proven strategies to build positive relationships with each family member, from a strengths-based perspective. You'll leave this day with clear action steps and a powerful plan.

Grab a spot to talk to Vanessa, our lead coach

She'll meet with you for 20 minutes to get you clear about your family goals, and see if it’s a good fit for you to join our next cohort.

Discover Your Next Step

In this yearlong Immersion, get ready to...

Master key strategies for giving your child a solid foundation of social and emotional skills at home and at school
Discover how to navigate big emotions and power struggles with more calm, clarity, and confidence
Learn Vanessa's 7 Pillars of Raising a Resilient Child and build a whole toolbox of parenting strategies
Design a positive home environment that fosters growth, learning, and connection
Collaborate with experts to troubleshoot everyday issues
Build better relationships with the people that matter most
Get on top of your calendar and find time to do the things you love, find your flow, and follow a successful self-care plan
Partner with other parents and go further, together!

What we're about at Raising Our Resilience...

Proven strategies and tools, so you can rest into them and end the search for the 'right way' to handle parenting challenges
Getting you clear about what to do and say, so you don’t spin out in tough parenting moments
Helping you learn how to set limits, create routines, and handle big emotions in a deeper, long-lasting way that builds stronger relationships
Becoming a true leader in those tough moments… once you’re consistent, kids will turn to you for your leadership and get on board with you rather than rebelling and pushing back
Keeping you out of overwhelm and isolation, the two things that can take you out of the self-improvement game, by surrounding you a like-minded community of coaches and peers

Meet Vanessa, Our Lead Coach

Vanessa provides live and virtual trainings and 1-on-1 support to empower parents with high-quality tools to stay calm, confident and connected, so that even through the toughest moments, parents can build a lifelong relationship based on respect, appreciation, and love.

Vanessa is a proven educator and coach with 15 years of classroom experience. She presents at national conferences, consults in non-profit, for-profit, and charter Montessori schools, and researched the science of gratitude with her colleague Professor Giacomo Bono through UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center's Youth Gratitude Project.

Vanessa holds an Early Childhood and Lower Elementary teaching credential from the American Montessori Society, a B.A. in Psychology from UC Berkeley, and a M.Ed. from St. Catherine University.