One-on-one coaching
Bring what’s happening in your relationships, your parenting, your work, or your life. We’ll make room to understand it and practice what comes next.
8-hour package · Virtual or at the farm
Explore coachingDandelion School of Self
A little more room to be human.You don’t have
to hide
to belong.
A place to learn about yourself, practice being in relationship, and do some hard things with people alongside you.
For adults, kids, and the people who care for them. Online and at the farm.
Learn. Attempt. Reflect. Repeat.
A little more room to be human
You can care about people
and still have
a self.
Maybe you’ve become very good at being what everyone needs. Maybe you’re trying to parent differently, find your footing, or keep loving your work without losing yourself in it.
Here, we practice asking for what we need, making choices, hearing each other, and finding a way back when things get hard.
There’s room to struggle, disagree, and make mistakes. We also practice taking responsibility for how we affect one another.
Ways to work with us right now
Find somewhere
to begin.
You can start with the support that makes sense for your life.
Family Practice
Foundations and individual family support, with the option to include youth sessions. Find the combination that fits your family.
For caregivers and children
Explore Family PracticeEmbodied Practice
Being Yourself, Together, a half-day with horses, or a private farm intensive. Different ways to learn through experience.
Explore the options with us
Explore embodied practiceHi. I’m Sara.
This work has
deep roots.
My husband, Matt, and I built Discovery Horse, then Dandelion: a farm, a community, and a way of working alongside children, families, and the people supporting them.
Years of that work—including building and running our Medicaid-funded program—gave us a lot of experience with what helps people participate, connect, and find their voice. Changes in Medicaid disrupted the business we built. We’re bringing what we learned into this next chapter.
We have extensive experience with neurodivergent children and families. We pay attention to pace, energy, communication, and what helps each person take part.
I bring expertise. You bring authority over your own life. Both belong here.
I’m very good at making room for other people to be imperfect. Publishing my own website? Apparently that’s my homework.
What we’re growing
A community
to keep practicing in.
School of Self is growing toward ongoing membership, with places for adults and kids to build relationships, return, and keep learning together.
A path for adults
Bring your whole human.
The vision is an ongoing adult practice community: people who get to know one another, offer honest feedback, work through differences, and make room for the next attempt.
You can begin now with coaching, an embodied experience, or a free Community Conversation.
Come meet usA path for kids
Room to grow friendships.
Youth sessions can be a place to begin. As the community develops, Friendship Circles will offer small, thoughtfully formed groups where children can practice being together.
We’ll pay attention to the relationships and support that help each child participate as those groups take shape.
Start with youth sessionsOngoing membership and Friendship Circles are in development.
Courageous visibility
Let yourself
be known.
Sometimes courage looks like saying what you actually think. Asking for help. Letting someone see that you’re unsure. Staying in a conversation when your first instinct is to disappear—or saying no and letting that no be known.
At School of Self, we practice being in relationship without leaving ourselves behind. Your preferences, questions, boundaries, and whole human self belong in the room.
You choose what you share. We can slow down, make room for the discomfort, and get curious about what helps you participate. Being visible doesn’t mean being available for everything.
Online, that includes meeting with cameras on. In person, it might mean naming what you want, asking for something different, or allowing yourself to be a beginner with someone alongside you.
Showing up gives us something real to work with. You can begin before you feel confident.
Embodied Practice
Less figuring it out.
More finding out.
Sometimes you learn something about yourself by being in an experience: making a choice, meeting a horse, noticing what happens in a group, or giving yourself time to pause.
We offer different ways to do that, with room to notice what happens and reflect together.
Explore Embodied PracticeFree · Live online
Come to a
Community Conversation.
Meet us, bring a question, and get a feel for what it’s like to practice with other people. A free place to begin.
Wednesdays, noon–1 p.m. Central, on the listed dates. We meet with cameras on, with room to arrive a little unsure.
See dates and join a conversationPrefer to meet us at the farm? Come to our October 10 Open House
School of Self, in practice
There’s room
to begin.
We’re learning and building, too. You can start before everything is figured out.
Find your place to begin