Family Vision/Mission Workshops

Creating a Joyful Family: Couples Workshops

These workshops are geared for parents at every stage: Prenatal to Adolescence.

Part 1: Creating a Family Vision and Mission: A Parenting Workshop for Couples
When: TBA, 8-10 pm

Where: In Your Home on Zoom
Cost: $50-100/Couple -- Sliding Scale

RSVP: Registration form
This is a new format on Zoom, for this Covid era. This intended "date night" is a time where you have put your kiddies to sleep, or your teens with a movie, and you can relax together with special drinks and finger food.

This class is designed for couples to dream, hope, share and create their family mission and vision.  Parents lament the lack of time with their partner to have these meaningful conversations about core values and finding common goals. This is the time.  In this workshop, we will brainstorm together to get ideas flowing, then we will break up into couples, and develop the guiding principles of your family.  Think of it as a productive date night, a time to enjoy each other without children, build the framework for parenting, and establish your unique family culture.  Join us! Please reserve your spot soon, space is limited.

Now we have a Family Vision and Mission, how do we begin to practice this?

Part 2: Creating A Family Plan With Rituals

When: TBA, Please email nancyggnass@gmail.com to get the announcement

Where: In your home, on Zoom Cost: $50-100/Couple-- Sliding Scale

RSVP: (Date TBD)
This is a new format on Zoom, for this Covid era. This intended "date night" is a time where you have put your kiddies to sleep, or your teens with a movie, and you can relax together with special drinks and finger food.

This workshop is designed for couples to have time to create a plan to embed practices that reflect the family vision and mission.  As a class, we will look at the research at why and how rituals can shape your family's individual and group identity, what are the various kinds and elements of rituals, and how to incorporate them in your family.  Couples will have plenty of time together and with others in the workshop to create rituals that can be practiced daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally, annually and for special occasions.  It will be a good time of envisioning the fun and love of your family.  Join us! Space is limited.

Facilitated by Nancy Gapasin Gnass, Child Development Specialist, Consultant, Speaker, Teacher, Wife, Mother of Two Teens and SF Local.

What parents are saying about the workshops:
This class was a breath of fresh air for my partner and I. We finally had the chance to take a deep dive into our values and perspectives on parenting—something we never make time for! Nancy creates the right down-to-earth atmosphere that allowed us to laugh and really talk about the things that matter most to us.
--Marc and Ariela

The couples workshops with Nancy was time well spent -- the classes feel like a gift that every family should enjoy. Nancy led us through a balanced session of independent thought, authentic connections, and group sharing. The evening flowed effortlessly with ideas and values evolving into a collection of statements that resonate with how we envision our family, and plans on how we can practice these. The statements clarify the things we cherish and highlight the things we hope to strive toward. We highly recommend this class and we appreciate Nancy's skilled facilitation.

--Jon and Sadie

We loved Teacher Nancy when took our daughter to her child observation classes at City College, and we loved her even more when we learned what she had to teach us about creating a mission and traditions for our family. It was  a gift slow down from the frenzy that is modern day parenthood and have the workshop space to focus on what matters most to us and how we want to live. Nancy guided us thoughtfully through the process and even provided yummy treats. We are pushing her to do another so we can keep coming back for more!

-- Emily + Andrew

Nancy takes a very overwhelming topic of “family mission statement” and breaks it down gradually so that you leave class with a very good idea of what you and your partner value and want to create with your kids. It was really nice seeing everyone’s examples at the end and also planning a future date to look back on our mission to revise and solidify it. We hope to go to a future session with Nancy- what a unique and productive date night!

--Nikki and Dan

Nancy created a very welcoming and safe space for us to have a great discussion about our vision for our family. She provided thought provoking questions and our favorite part was being able to break out and discuss these with each other. We loved being able to walk away with our mission already created so we could share it with our small children. 

-- Ian and Susan

Nancy's workshop was well thought out and structured, while still giving each couple the freedom to find their own way to a family vision and mission. The prompts and examples were helpful, and being surrounded by other couples trying to discover the same thing created a great environment for focusing and thinking things through. The session gave us a thought-provoking jumping off point for continuing this important work at home, as a family. 

-- Angela and Michael

We enjoyed our family mission class with Nancy and found it really helpful. Most useful was simply the dedicated time to consider (and debate) our family values and arrive at a short-list of mission statements we can reference as we navigate the trade-offs present in daily life. We appreciated Nancy's kind wisdom of allowing our family's mission to be a process and to evolve over time, and the drinks and snacks were a nice touch too. 

-- Nathan and Julie Aleman

We're always so busy day to day working on the "how" we're raising our toddler to check in about the "why" we're raising him.  Nancy provided a space for us to pause and pick our heads up from looking at the ground in front of us to scan the horizon.  Sharing our inspirations for our family stories with other parents helped us really focus in on the core principles we want our family to embody.  --Andrew Casteel

My husband and I got so much out of Nancy's Creating a Family Mission and Vision workshop. It gave us the guidance and the space to really take a moment and think about the environment we are trying to cultivate in our home with our children. There is so little opportunity for this in our busy lives. We are hoping to take Part 2 of the workshop as well. Nancy has inspired me as a parent and an educator since I became a parent myself. 

--Hannah & Chris 

"All of us come to parenting with hopes for our children, our families, and ourselves.  We imagine the families we want to create.  We dream of all that we want for our children.  We hold a vision."
     --Becoming the Parent You Want To Be, Davis and Keyser

"A family mission statement is a combined, unified expression from all family members of what your family is all about-- what it is you really want to do and be-- and the principles you choose to govern your family life."
     --Stephen Covey

For questions or to sign up to get future dates send emails to: nancyggnass@gmail.com