Hello

I'm the creator of the Six Family Cultures Framework, an intentional and practical approach to helping families cultivate healthy family cultures through everyday choices and habits. I'm also the author of Birthing Beyond Babies: Cultivating Home Cultures That Birth Life, Love and Lasting Legacy, where I first introduced the principles that now underpin the framework.

My passion is to help families intentionally cultivate cultures that breathe life, love and lasting legacy, strengthening relationships, shaping character, and helping individuals and families thrive through every season of family life.

My Story

My journey has been shaped by a lifelong interest in people, leadership, and culture. Through my academic studies, I came to recognise the powerful influence culture has on shaping attitudes, behaviours, and long-term outcomes. That understanding deepened through many years of working across a diverse range of organisations and alongside people from different backgrounds, where I saw first-hand how, whether intentional or unintentional, culture has a profound impact on teams, organisations, individuals, and communities.

I also worked across three local authorities, including in commissioning roles where I was responsible for commissioning a range of services, including housing support and support for unpaid carers. In another role, I was involved in commissioning and developing training for foster carers and adopters. During this time, I developed a training workshop informed by secure-base thinking, which further deepened my understanding of the importance of relationships, belonging, availability and the environment we create for people to grow and develop.

By this stage, my own children were already teenagers, so this experience did not begin my understanding of connection. I had already been learning its importance through many years of family life. Rather, it gave me another professional perspective on something I had increasingly come to recognise - connection and belonging create an important foundation for influence, guidance and growth.

What I've Learned

At the same time, my greatest learning has come through my own family journey. Together with my husband, I have experienced the joys and challenges of raising a family through many seasons of life, including moving homes, communities, and countries.

Those experiences reinforced my conviction that while circumstances may change, the culture we intentionally cultivate within our family can provide stability, belonging, character, and hope.

I've also seen how culture can continue to influence family life as children grow into adulthood and establish families of their own. The ways we connect, celebrate, serve, take responsibility, practise compassion and remain committed to what matters can evolve with each season, while the underlying culture can continue to be carried forward.

The Framework

Bringing together these personal, professional, and academic experiences inspired me to develop the Six Family Cultures Framework, a simple, intentional, and practical approach to helping families cultivate cultures that breathe life, love, and lasting legacy.
A simple, practical pathway built around six essential cultures:
● Connection
● Celebration
● Conviction
● Compassion
● Character
● Consistency

I believe these cultures are not six separate things to achieve. They work together to create the environment in which individuals can grow and relationships can flourish through every season of family life. Connection creates belonging and a foundation for influence; the other cultures help shape what is cultivated within that relationship, while Consistency helps the culture become part of everyday family life and adapt through changing seasons.

Whether you're just beginning your family journey, raising young children, navigating the teenage years, launching adult children, or embracing grandparenthood, my hope is that these principles will encourage and equip you to cultivate a family culture where individuals and relationships flourish, and where a lasting legacy is built one intentional step at a time.

Contact

I'm always looking for new and exciting opportunities. Let's connect.

info@coachingtosoar.com