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Listening for Your Truth in Cafés and Other Safe Spaces
"You are only as sick as your secrets." BSF's Kathryn Leigh Goetz explores what it means to truly listen to yourself and why Cafés create the conditions for the kind of honesty that leads to real change.
Intimacy Issues and Protective Factors
How does the way we were parented shape our ability to be intimate, to connect, to love? BSF CEO explores Adult Attachment Disorder and how living the Strengthening Families Protective Factors can offer a path toward healing and stronger family relationships.
Basking in the MMMM with Journey to Vitality
Forget SMART goals. BSF's CEO introduces the LHASA goal — Living Holistically As Sacred Adventure — and reflects on what it really means to pursue vitality when the destination is less important than the path.
Parent Cafés Meet Micro-Enterprise in Nairobi, Kenya
What happens when Parent Cafés take root in Kibera, Nairobi, with no outside funding and a community determined to grow? BSF CEO visited the Soweto Forum Parent Café teams in 2018 and found the Protective Factors alive, well, and expanding into micro-enterprise.
A Parent’s Perspective on Child Welfare and Family Engagement
Family engagement is one of the most-cited and most poorly executed goals in child welfare. A parent with lived experience breaks down why the gap between philosophy and practice persists, and what relationship-based approaches can do to close it.
Bolstering Families’ Immune Systems through Parent Cafés
What if strengthening families worked the way immunology does — building inner resilience rather than targeting problems? BSF's CEO shares the theory of change behind Parent Cafés and why empowered parents are the real agents of transformation.