In the face of uncertainty, inevitable change and growing divisions combined with the start of the holiday season…how do we turn the volume up to exquisite care for ourselves, one another and the world around us?

Check out my coaching offerings below and if you are compelled, please share the invitation for a RESET between December 2024-February 2025 with friends, families and colleagues…

Building Structures for belonging and repair…

In 2015, I opened a non-profit called Hatch Community with the mission to disrupt cycles of poverty and nurture parent-child relationships. We wanted to transform generations through economic opportunity, birth and parenting education, and a community of support for and by young parents. It was a big, heart driven mission, with a deep belief in conscious community building and shared resources. Through vocational training and peer support we provided services to all parents under 25 with a specific focus on foster youth, transitional youth, LGBTQAI+ and sexually exploited youth. Our focus was on these populations because they are the most difficult to structure community around - they have been systematically pushed to the fringes, outside of belonging, and as a result they are rightfully cautious with their trust. The systems and layers of support a person typically leans on fell through for them - biological family, extended family, chosen family, their community and societal systems. My underlying belief and hope was that if we could build structures of belonging and care for the most betrayed populations in our society then by including them we could begin to learn to build togetherness for all of us. My belief continues to be that if we invite in all parts of each one of us, across our differences, without discarding anyone or any part, we can rebel against fitting into a mold of society that no longer works for any of us and create a society that works for ALL of us.

How we built structures of belonging, where the feeling of it lasts to this day in the hearts of everyone involved:

• Our training programs taught young people how to care for themselves and be accountable to care for others. We developed layers of support by providing a peer mentor program on top of a peer support program.

• Our educators and staff were walking their talk by actually doing the work they were teaching, while also learning to care for themselves so they could care for others better. They learned from who they taught as well, dismantling hierarchy of knowledge.

• We had consistent weekly meetings where we learned to bridge differences, to broaden perspectives by holding other peoples experiences, and celebrated one another’s successes. 

• We invited and had the hard conversations. We built trust and offered repair when trust was broken. 

• We co-created a learning environment that was focused on curiosity and brought in outside experts to better understand challenges the group was facing: including talking about our differences, isms, phobias, microaggressions and oppression. Both individuals and the group as a whole showed us where we needed more attention to move us all forward. 

• We educated the professionals who came in with a culture that questioned everyone, regardless of their status, while also honoring their wisdom. 

• We invited every part of every person and learned to care for the part and the person better every time. 

The program was wildly successful and we grew fast with minimal resources. We paved new ways for the populations we served and the birth and parenting communities in the Bay Area. The contract we held with Alameda County is now a paid part of Medical. We showed other organizations how to build and grow in community. We made mistakes. We learned from them. We grew from them, together. 

At the start of 2020 the organization closed, breaking down into parts and giving graduates the pieces to carry on in their individual work and hearts.  I am still in awe of what each of them created inside themselves, in their communities and in the world. 

We need more programs, more communities, more spaces that invite all of us and every part of us to the table, creating structure for belonging and repair.

I would love to share with you what I have learned and also learn from you. I would love to support you to create these structures in your partnerships, your family, your chosen family, your communities and your organizations or businesses. We need to come together, in a new way, with our whole selves, so that what feels like the end times are actually new beginnings.

Also, AN INVITATION IN MY BLOG…Inviting in larger structures of belonging and repair with an invitation to whiteness and white women, after the election results… Read

OFFERINGS

NEW OFFERING for NEW CLIENTS

A new invitation…I have been wondering about ways to support individuals and families through the unprecedented times we are currently in and the added pressures of holidays, so I am offering a 5 session package to new clients to be used over 3 months December 2024 - February 2025. The intention is a reset - a period of time to evaluate what is working and what is not, with a focus on how to do things differently moving forward and establish the structures to reinforce sustainable change in your family. My intention is to help you build structures of not just care for yourself but to build structures that support exquisite (higher volume) care for yourself, your family and your communities in times of uncertainty, big divisions and fear. Please share with people or families you think may be interested! For a 20 minute free consultation: Connect

ON-GOING OFFERINGS:

Family Coaching Groups

Drop-in Group: Parenting with Support - Wednesdays at 12pm PST. Join any Wednesday, just reach out for zoom link!  

My dream is to disrupt the isolation in parenting and prioritize thriving family nervous systems, transforming generations through support and intentional community.  This group invites parents into a container of support to have the opportunity to parent together. All with the vision that more webs of communities and connections will grow from there.  Please reach out if you are interested in joining the parenting group and please share the opportunity with parent’s who you think might be interested!

Social Entrepreneur Networking Group - Mondays at 8am PT, join any Monday.

Join a growing community of entrepreneurs from underrepresented or underestimated communities who are dedicated to giving back to their communities. We meet monthly to network, collaborate and dream up the world we want to co-create. Connect

Finding Hope in Times of Despair Writing Group : Moving Beyond Survival towards Nervous System Agility…Together building a new world for ourselves and the next generations Fridays at 8am PT, Join any Friday, just reach out for zoom link!  

Join a writing group that focuses on curiosity with prompts, sharing and community support around how we can all better support our nervous systems through inevitable change to build the world we want for ourselves and the generations to come. The group’s intention is to find hope in despair as well as agency in knowing when to stretch to take risks, and when to slow down and nurture - better caring for ourselves, others and the world. Connect

Climbing Coaching

Add indoor or outdoor climbing to your coaching package to embody your or your child’s shifts in a new way. Reach out if you are interested!

Check out updated website. Add climbing to your coaching. www.katwhippleclimbing.com

If you are CURIOUS about my offerings…connect with me for a 20 minute chat.