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“IT’S AN INCREDIBLE GIFT TO CRAFT AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE PEOPLE CAN HEAL THEMSELVES.”

As a teacher, I am to balance empathetic facilitation with structure.  I create a safe container through clear and honest communication, providing step by step tools that are accessible and empowering.  

I have led Expressive Arts workshops, Performance Art intensives, therapeutic support groups, movement-based practices, writing workshops, peer-to-peer counseling courses, and parent support groups. I am passionate about the transformation of creativity.

NON-COERCIVE, COLLABORATIVE PARENTING SUPPORT GROUP With rythea lee

This is a weekly parent support group on Zoom
Tuesdays from 4-5 pm EST, Starts February 25th


I am so excited to announce that I am offering a Parent Support Group membership, where we will meet virtually every Tuesday from 4-5pm EST. Monthly membership grants you access to the meeting Zoom link, as many group meets you'd like per month, and a growing parent community on Buy Me a Coffee!

This membership currently has 2 tiers:

1. Monthly Member

Supported by Buy Me a Coffee, monthly members access the weekly group's Zoom link, as well as a message board to communicate with me.

Click here to purchase your monthly membership.

Once purchased, the Zoom link will be emailed to you, and you can access the message board by creating your very own Buy Me a Coffee account.

This is an exciting option as I'll be offering more parenting and healing supports through this fun platform, Buy Me a Coffee! Stay tuned! 

2. Drop In
To drop into a Tuesday evening support group, please Venmo to and make sure to ADD YOUR EMAIL as a note to the Venmo payment! Email me if you have questions or problems: Rythea@crocker.com: 

Each drop in is $15USD

Once payment is received, the zoom link will be emailed to you.

Support Group Details:

The structure is that whoever shows up can ask me a question or present an issue and I will give TONS of input on non-coercive, collaborative parenting. Other parents can offer support and validation as well. Sometimes I will offer a topic or a question and then fit in whoever I can respond to in an hour. Sometimes I will talk to you directly and sometimes, you will just listen to others processing. You can drop in for $15 a group (Venmo) or buy a monthly pass at $40 (see link below) and come to as many as you want. I found an app that charges people monthly and I'm SO EXCITED about it.

Here's the link again:

(https://buymeacoffee.com/rythealee/membership)

This is meant to BREAK ISOLATION, MAKE FRIENDS, AND BE TOGETHER IN THE MIND-SET SO THAT YOU DON'T FEEL NUTS!!!


About Rythea:
I have been an all-in non-coercive, conscious parent for 7 years. I have been a trauma therapist for 28 years! My daughter is 13 years old and has been on the journey with me and my partner in developing collaborative, mutually respectful, play-based ways of relating and being close. It has felt scary, unknown, and often lonely to treat my child as an equal, to see her as someone whose opinions, desires, and needs are equal to mine, to empower her voice, her knowing, and her choices. BUT the joy, love, and closeness I have with my daughter is unmistakable. Parenting has only gotten better, more fun, and easier through this collaborative, relationship-focused approach, and it has been transformative for our family.

How I will support you:
This support group will give attention to your stuck places, questions, problems, feelings, and break the isolation that comes with trying to change your mindset as a parent. We will also celebrate your wins, your courage, and the amazing fact that you are willing to grow. I am excited to connect you with other parents who are on this healing path and aiming to be closer with their children in a new way! This support group is designed to create a community that can support and encourage each other through time!

I have BIPOC reparations scholarships for parents who apply. Please email me with any questions and to apply at Rythea@crocker.com

Click here to explore resources for non-coercive, collaborative parenting.

Cancellation and Refund Policy: Once you pay your fee, there are no refunds.

 

 
Testimonials from participants of recent support groups:

“Connecting with other parents helps me "keep the faith" that our children matter and love is real! We can love our children unconditionally and be great parents. We can mess up, apologize, repair, and keep trying! Our children are amazing.”

“Parenting in America is such an isolating experience, even among friend groups it feels like you can’t say (or have to say) certain things. Just curating a space where we can share and hold each other was healing and helpful.”

“Finding Rythea has literally been life changing! I am so thankful I was able to be a part of this group and took so much away.”

“So glad I did this group! The take-aways are hard to explain, but my soul has been fed by it.”

“Rythea did a wonderful job balancing compassion and empathy for parents in the group, while also holding us accountable for our behavior as parents. Rythea holds the space with so much curiosity and enthusiasm, it is easy to bring more openness and joy to this intense work!”

"Having this support has been huge for me. Non-coercive, collaborative parenting is working to bring me into flow and into the most special closeness with my two kids. Nothing is more important or more enriching in life, and Rythea is such a warm, open, funny, relatable and wonderful guide. Her philosophy is total and it has helped my little family be its best. I am eternally grateful!"

"I am so grateful for this support with non-coercive parenting . It was so helpful to learn that so many other parents are struggling with the same things. Coming together once a week was a beautiful ritual to create for ourselves and our children. I am very grateful. It is hard for me to show up, I am glad I did!" 💚💚💚

"Parenting is isolating. Parenting is Lonely. It's a minefield of triggers and dark holes. This group simultaneously allows that to be ok and disproves it. Thank you Rythea for creating a safe place for parents to struggle."

"This group was worth the time. you remember that it's ok to not be perfect and you gain the strength to shift your mindset."

"Rythea Lee and the non-coercive parenting support group was a wonderful experience. I learned that many of us feel the same pang in our hearts when hearing traditional parenting advice, and she has provided a safe place to talk about those issues generally, and to be able to get into specific situations. Other parents sharing vulnerably, what they were going through on their journey, helped me feel less alone in this immensely rewarding, but society-defying road to long-term connection with our children. What a gift."

“A+ for Rythea (and assistant Maggie) you're both wonderful. I really appreciate how you can make space for literally anything that comes up. You really hear people and don't try to manage them. You validate their experience on a human/universal level, and then respond with actual guts and have some sort of a relatable answer and way of weaving in a story that demonstrates practical steps (always in a humorous or disarming way). You really know your shit, and you're not afraid to call out what you see but you do it with such acceptance and compassion of the person. Thank you!”

“Parenting is one of the most isolating parts of life. Being able to go on a journey with other parents trying to love our kids better is really a bright spot in a sometimes dark and lonely world.”

“I am so happy to see my kiddo want to spend time with me as we've gotten to know each other. Knowing she trusts that I will take care of her emotionally and physically is terrifying and I'm so happy that's where we are.”

“This parent support group has been so wonderful. In just six weeks I have seen so much change in myself and my relationship with my children. I highly recommend.”

“Rythea is amazing. This group switches gears from behavior modification to acknowledging the triggers and trauma we are projecting at our kids. In doing this it has created such connection and transparency with our kids; really allowing us to see them for who they are and what they need.”

“I can't think of any advice, any blurb or pump up poster that helped me get my parenting in line with where I wanted it to be before this. I will never be perfect but I will never be the way I used to be either. I would recommend this to anyone.”

“Rythea is an enthusiastic and perceptive guide to no-coercive conscious parenting. You learn just as much about yourself as your child and you meet a group of supportive parents who are going through diverse but relatable experiences. A real community. If you are interested in no-coercive, conscious parenting - i.e. tired of the same old toxic results from authoritarian parenting which seems to put more and more distance between you and your child - this is a great starting point! Thank you Rythea!”

“Having a group of other parents to learn and grow with as I work to improve my relationship with my child has been incredible. Rythea is warm, genuine, and a brilliant facilitator who created a safe space from the first session, with a diverse group coming from many different experiences as parents.”

“The structure was phenomenal - the grounding meditation, the freewriting, the peer counseling, and sharing with the group, the size of the group so that we could all feel like we got to talk with the whole group and also had these meaningful connections with individuals via the peer counseling. All really facilitated deftly with questions when folks needed to go deeper. I know some folks mentioned wishing it were longer but it was a super powerful use of 75 minutes.”