Family Pods
Family Pods are a space for mothers to slow down, reconnect with themselves, and build meaningful community with others walking alongside them. Together, we explore intentional ways of caring for ourselves and showing up for one another through the changing seasons of motherhood.
In our time together, we reflect on our needs, desires, identity, nervous system health, relationships, creativity, and the realities of modern motherhood, while being supported by a circle of people learning and growing together. Rather than navigating it all alone, pods offer a place of belonging, shared wisdom, honest conversation, and collective care.
Family Pods are facilitated by Amy Rupp, a certified matrescence coach and community builder who has spent the last nine years cultivating cooperative, community-centered spaces for mothers.
Together we explore:
Building strong, connected relationships
How to support our children’s emotional worlds while tending our own
The nervous system, for both caregivers and children, and how regulation shapes daily life
Exploring communication within partnerships and families, especially in the midst of stress and growth
Navigating the ongoing identity shifts that come with raising children
Creating rhythms, boundaries, and support systems that feel sustainable
How to move into our sense of play, wonder and joy as individuals and as a collective
This is not about having it all figured out. It’s about learning together.
How the Pods Form
Three times a year, the Forest Collective invites a small group of families to join and form a pod. Amy organizes and facilitates weekly meets that will then transition into independent pods that meet on their own.
Weekly 1.5-hour gatherings for 7 weeks - meeting outside at parks around Anchorage, Eagle River, and Palmer.
Guided by Amy Rupp as facilitator and matrescence coach
Join a Summer Po
Thursdays:
June 18, 25
July 9, 16, 30
August 6, 13
Choose from one of two pod times:
Afternoon Pod: 3:30–5:00 PM
Evening Pod: 5:00–6:30 PM