About the Conscious Parenting Alliance

The Conscious Parenting Alliance helps all kinds of families laugh, relax and enjoy life more.  We offer dynamic, effective coaching, consultation, mediation and courses in the Bay Area.  Teleclasses coming soon.

The Conscious Parenting Alliance (CPA) helps parents and caregivers from diverse backgrounds relax and enjoy each other more.  Through our classes, parents and caregivers develop greater awareness, strengthen familial and bonds, and form supportive networks of families and allies.  Through coaching and mediation, families set up systems to help home life run more smoothly, work through both acute and chronic conflicts, and learn tools to keep the joy and harmony flowing.

CPA starts with the premise that caring for a child represents some of the most important work of the world. Much child-rearing literature teaches how to control children’s behavior without considering the contexts that give rise to those behaviors, nor the effects of using traditional models of authority.  We believe a better world starts with more connection. We offer tools, perspective and support to begin now.  We seek to lift the veil on the legacies of family and culture that have so far informed our caregiving, examine and evaluate what we’ve learned, and replace what no longer serves us with practices that heal, transform and help connect. 

The founders and facilitators, Jill Nagle and Shelly Birger, have a passion for supporting families.  They bring years of experience in conflict resolution, child development, education, family support, community building, interpersonal communication, parent advocacy and nonviolence to the Conscious Parenting Alliance.