Showing Up with Intention as Parents in a Pandemic
Join Callan Blount Fleming (Tide Risers NYC Facilitator and CEO of Spark Collective) and Phyllis Bisch LPC (and Callan's mom!) for a conversation about how we can show up with intention while parenting during a pandemic. It's been a challenge- in a moment where emotions are naturally high, we may have let rules slide, we're worried for our kids, and we're having tough conversations, it can feel absolutely overwhelming. We may sometimes wonder: "Where did that version of myself come from?"
In our session, we'll leverage psychology and coaching and a conversation between two women who love each other and you to talk about how we can show up for ourselves first and continue to lead as parents through our values and with joy. And, you'll leave the session with exercises to call on in real time.
About Callan
Callan Blount Fleming, Founder, and CEO of Spark Collective, Tide Riser Facilitator NYC 2019, 2020,
Callan is the founder and CEO of Spark Collective, a social enterprise that delivers individual, cohort, and organizational leadership coaching, workshops, and culture transformation to create new personal and professional possibilities, one human at a time.
Through her own experience as a working mother, manager of working parents, and a business leader, Callan realized how we’ve designed work isn’t working for parents, and really, for most of us. Spark Collective thus launched a one-of-a-kind, transformational professional development program that supports companies to create the best conditions for working parents. In doing so, Spark Collective helps companies ensure that they are attracting and retaining the high-performing and diverse talent they know will help their companies excel, ultimately transforming workplaces to be inclusive of all.
Callan’s diverse work experience from startups to Fortune 100s and in teaching, finance, non-profit fundraising, and senior leadership roles uniquely positions her to support leaders in a variety of industries and growth moments. She is a NationSwell Council Member, board member for the Alliance for Decision Education, ICF certified coach, and Tide Riser facilitator. Callan lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, daughter, and son.
About Phyllis
Phyllis Bisch, Licensed Professional Counselor and founder of "The Girls Group
Phyllis Bisch is a Licensed Professional Counselor who works primarily with adolescent girls and has been in private practice since 1998. Phyllis sees clients individually as well as in group therapy. Her mission is to help young women become balanced mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, and socially. A question she often asks her adolescent girls is, ”Is what you’re doing helping you to become the woman you want to be?” She is best known for her group work with girls. “The Girls Group”, offers groups for middle school girls and high school girls. Group therapy is a powerful and affordable modality of treatment and Phyllis is award winning in this area.
Phyllis is the founder of “Total Image for Girls”, a self- esteem program for girls that became popular in the 1980’s and 1990’s and was affiliated with Neiman Marcus and Lilly Dodson. Over 800 girls participated in this program. It seems that Phyllis has always been involved in the development of young women. She was Supervisor of Flight Attendants for Southwest Airlines in the 1970’s, was an official judge of the Miss America local pageants in the early 1970’s. She thinks her most valuable experience was raising her two daughters, Shannon, and Callan.