Meet Lisa

I’m a mother to three pretty much grown up people and I’ve been a teacher and facilitator in the East Bay of Northern California for over 22 years. I love creating spaces where people feel safe being with the real and often challenging issues of life, whether it’s day-to-day parenting or the beauty and struggle of being human.

It’s so important to me to be, learn and teach in community. I’m rarely on social media and instead get hyped and jazzed and pumped when I’m with people even if it’s on Zoom, it’s real and the magic happens!

In addition to teaching Parenting with Positive Discipline, I’ve held workshops for how to build your backyard worm bin and create natural cleaners, to Brene Brown’s Daring Way,™ knitting, and Wild Writing®.

Most recently I’m studying and performing improv and beekeeping!

Professionally I specialize in parent education through community talks and coaching. I also lead small group Wild Writing circles.

Parenting Education & Coaching 

Parenting calls us to be bigger and better than we feel we’re capable of being. We are all so tender around our parenting challenges, yet I’ve seen over 22+ years experience, the power of Positive Discipline strategies and practices to change lives. I offer one-on-one parent coaching, professional development for parenting educators and am offering an 5 week in person series in March in Piedmont CA.

Wild Writing® Circles

Writing circles are different from traditional creative writing classes because we embrace the messiness of writing and support each other without critique or judgment. I offer remote writing circle classes and asynchronous writing prompts by subscription. 

Sign up to receive infrequent emails from me with an invitation to a class, circle or a blog post.

Formal Education

• B.A. from Georgetown University, 1988.

• M.S.W. from the University of California at Berkeley, 1992.

• Positive Discipline Educator, 2005.

• Certified Positive Discipline Trainer, Positive Discipline Association, 2008.

• Certified Professional Co-active Coach, C.P.C.C. from the Coaches Training Institute, 2013

• Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator, 2014.

• Certified Wild Writing® Teacher, 2021