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Nurture LLC is your partner for personal, professional, and organizational growth. For decades, lead educator/consultant Dr. Fran Kaplan and our professional Dialogue Facilitator Corps have fostered development, innovation, and well-being across hundreds of diverse public and private organizations.
We empower individuals, groups, and workplaces to embrace their potential by:
Building knowledge through customized, engaging education
Teaching practical skills
Facilitating healthy relationships
Providing ongoing support
We live in increasingly complex local, national and global societies. Nurture LLC’s interactive multimedia presentations help audiences develop and/or deepen their
Knowledge and historical understanding about their own social groups and those with whom they may interact
Awareness and understanding of the lived experiences of individuals raised in families and societies different from their own
Desire and ability to take first steps toward building healthy relationships, managing conflicts, and innovating solutions with a variety of individuals and social groups
Our presentations include Resource Lists for Further Learning that contain online articles, books, films, and graphs curated to support your journey.
Our in-demand presentations share the historical and contemporary contexts crucial for understanding the dynamics of diversity in America.
Our staff training programs incorporate more time for learning and small group discussion so participants can go deeper.
We provide supportive consulting for wherever you and your organization find yourselves to be on the journey.
Our programs include participant evaluation and feedback. We ask, for example: “What is the most important new awareness, idea, fact, or feeling you are taking away from this session?” Typical responses include:
“Think outside the box. Exercise empathy. Treat everyone with respect and as a unique individual.”
“I really enjoy listening and getting so much better at it! I love learning about others and am learning more about myself as a result.”
“Helped me connect with colleagues that I would not otherwise have an opportunity to have a meaningful discussion with”
“There are other co-workers that see the urgency and need for change. I feel less ‘alone’ in the endeavor and begin to see it happening.”
“The caring circle was wonderful, magical.”
We believe our country is currently experiencing a uniquely “teachable time” in its journey towards realizing its founding ideals of liberty and justice for all.
Dr. Fran Kaplan formed Nurture LLC to advance and support that journey by using methods they’ve honed over many years to build bridges from our past to our future across racial/ethnic, urban/suburban/rural, generational, and other divides.
Dr. Fran has spent fifty-five years working against poverty and for social justice and peace locally, nationally, and internationally. A social change “entrepreneur,” she has founded and led multiple organizations. Learn more about Dr. Fran.
We look forward to partnering with organizations and individuals who seek to join the journey toward equity and build bridges together.