About Fresh Perspectives Workshops
How it all began…
The tumultuous transition from working as a full-time teacher and resource consultant to becoming a full-time mom had taken its toll. Sleep-deprived and flying by the seat of my pants, I seriously wondered whether I was up to all that motherhood demanded. I felt isolated, overwhelmed, and incredibly incompetent.
A middle-of-the-night epiphany changed all that. While walking the halls with a colicky child, I generated a series of subjects pertinent to parenting that I thought would be informative and fun to discuss with other moms. I created a flyer outlining a year’s worth of workshops, sent it out the following morning, and Fresh Perspectives was born.
Each month, numerous groups gathered throughout the Bay Area to explore a distinct set of topics. Our workshops were dynamic, revitalizing, and collaborative experiences. We each left with a reservoir of practical, parent-tested resources and inspiring new perspectives.
Now, after more than twenty-five years of facilitating workshops, it is impossible to shelve all that kept us laughing and living with a measure of sanity during those challenging years. The satisfying solution, I concluded, was to get it out of my hands and into a world of women who could benefit as all of us had. We/those who participated with me in the very beginning/wanted our own children, now having children of their own, to reap the rewards of the incomparable Fresh Perspectives experience.
First introduced in 1980, these workshops have proven timeless in spirit, even as the subject matter has evolved. What endures is the power of women coming together with intention around topics that matter. My hope is that this experience rekindles the same warmth and magic that made our time together so memorable.