My Commitment to Resilient Family Capital

The truth is: Money isn't enough. And family units don't just naturally fall into place by default. the odds of sustaining family wealth across generations are low.

If families want to flourish, they need to work at it.

I've partnered with the MacDermott Method because I am committed to providing families with strategies for building resilient family capital. I hope you'll make use of these resources, and start your journey toward growing strong family capital.

Get the Resilient Family Capital Workbook 

Are you reading Resilient Family Capital: The 15 Strategies Every Family of Wealth Needs? Get the supplementary workbook here, and download all the worksheets and activities you need to help build your family capital.

Resources for Building Resilient Family Capital

Learn more about the resources I offer for building resilient family capital.  

Resilient Family Capital Book 

With an introduction by me, Resilient Family Capital: The 15 Strategies Every Family of Wealth Needs provides strategies for using financial wealth to build resilient family units.

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Resilience-Based Parenting™ eCourse

Learn more about the 52 skills for raising resilient kids, designed for parents of teens and tweens who want to turn those difficult years into enjoyable years filled with laughter, bonding, and happiness. 

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Parenting Through Divorce eCourse

Yes, your kids will be okay. In fact, they will thrive! This toolkit for divorcing parents teaches skills for using divorce to grow stronger and closer to your children and redefine your future. 

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Resilient Family Capital: The 15 Strategies Every Family of Wealth Needs

When we think of the world "wealth," what most often comes to mind is financial capital. We think about money. Yet, most wealth-holders share a common goal: They want their children to be happy and self-sufficient. Certainly, they want financial capital, but what they want even more is strong family capital.

In this book, with an introduction by me, Lisa Strutzel, you can learn to: 

  • Raise children with self-efficacy and self-esteem, 
  • Honor each family member's values, 
  • Communicate well around difficult topics, and 
  • Develop a healthy paradigm for resolving conflicts.

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Resilient Family Strategies eCourse

Have you ever wondered why certain parents have such good relationships with their teenagers and tweens? Why some kids are so well-adjusted, successful and happy? Why some families are so tight-knit they seem to grow closer and stronger even through challenges and setbacks?

The great news is that resilience can be learned! There are things you can do to make your children and your family more resilient so that you enjoy your interactions, strengthen your bond as a family unit, and feel confident in your role as a parent...

... even when your children are teenagers. (In fact, especially when your kids are teenagers.)

This is the focus of Resilience-Based Parenting™—to make everyone in your family more resilient and to improve your relationships with each other along the way.

When you join Resilience-Based Parenting™, you will learn skills and have access to 52 tools that you have likely never learned and that will make you feel much more empowered and optimistic about the future of your family. You will receive:

  • 52 skills delivered weekly to your inbox.
  • Household membership to the Resilience-Based Parenting™ portal. Share the program with your partner or spouse.
  • Resilience-based resources validated in four clinical trials.
  • 52 weekly action steps to improve your family's resilience.
  • The opportunity to join Kristin MacDermott in our live office hours and have all your parenting questions answered.

Click below for samples from the program.

Skills-Based Lessons

Explore the pillars of resilient family units through our skills-based tools delivered weekly to your inbox. The audio lessons are brief (usually under ten minutes), and they will give you powerful aha moments for changing your relationships with your kids and improving family dynamics.

Skill

Weekly Activities

Put your new Resilience-Based Parenting™ skills to work by completing weekly activities that improve your children's resilience, decrease the friction in your household, and, perhaps most important of all, increase the positive interactions you have with each of your family members.

Activity

Additional Resources

The eCourse is packed with additional resources that will help you feel more confident about your role as a parent. We have been studying resilience for two decades, and our resilience-training programs and the skills included in this toolkit have been validated in four studies.

Resource

Parenting Through Divorce eCourse

You have heard the stories and statistics about divorce ruining lives and wreaking havoc on children.

But you and your children are going to be okay.

In fact, the expectation you should have of the Parenting Through Divorce course is that by the time you are done, you will feel confident that you and your children will thrive, that there will be a day in the not-so-distant future when you laugh so hard that your side aches, and you feel so happy that your smile is contagious.

In this eCourse, you will learn: 

  • Secrets for strengthening your connection with your child.
  • Strategies for parenting in the midst of emotional turbulence.
  • Lifelong resilience skills that will make you and your children more empowered and joy-filled, now, and anytime life throws an obstacle your way.

This program consists of seven weeks worth of audio lessons, activities, and resources that will be delivered to your inbox daily, so you can listen as you walk the dog, drive to work, or do the dishes. 

Daily Audio Lessons

Receive 49 brief audio lessons that fit into your life. Full subscribers will receive a new resilience skill daily, which you can listen to while walking the dog or driving to work.

Personal Autobiography

Tap into the best of yourself and your children. Our workbook helps you find your strengths and create a new family culture. Write a powerful next chapter.

Resource Portal

Subscribers have full access to the Parenting Through Divorce portal packed with downloadable resources proven to promote key resiience outcomes.

50% Discount on All eCourses

My clients receive a 50 percent discount on Resilience-Based Parenting and Parenting Through Divorce. Enroll now to take advantage of this offer.

Resilience-Based Parenting

$250

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  • 52 tools delivered to your inbox weekly.
  • Annual household membership to the Resilience-Based Parenting portal. Share with your spouse or partner.
  • New skills rolled out monthly.
  • Resilience-based resources validated in four clinical trials.
  • 52 weekly action steps to improve your family's resilience.

PLUS ... twice a month, you will be invited to join the live Zoom office hours with Kristin MacDermott, where you can ask the founder of Resilience-Based Parenting all of your parenting questions.

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Parenting Through Divorce

$210

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  • 49 audio lessons delivered straight to your inbox.
  • Six-month membership in the Parenting Through Divorce portal. And, if you are so inclined, permission to share with your ex!
  • The Personal Autobiography workbook delivered to your inbox packed with activities to build resilient family capital.
  • Additional resources validated in four clinical trials and proven to promote key resilience outcomes.

PLUS ... once a month, you will be invited to join the live Zoom office hours with Kristin MacDermott, where you can ask the founder of Parenting Through Divorce all of your parenting questions.

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About Kristin MacDermott, Resilience Expert

Kristin MacDermott is a licensed marriage and family therapist, as well as the creator of the MacDermott Method, an expert in resilience, co-author of Resilient Family Strategies, and co-creator of Parenting Through Divorce and Resilient Family Strategies. Kristin's resilience-training programs have been validated in four studies (including two randomized-controlled trials) with researchers from the Duke Clinical Research Institute, published in peer-review journals, and proven to promote clinically significant improvement in key resilience measures, including distress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, and self-efficacy. Over the past two decades, she has developed resilience-training programs for some of the highest performing people on the planet, including Navy SEALS, the Los Angeles Police Department, and healthcare providers at 20 hospitals across the country. She has created programs for cancer patients, divorcing families, corporate executives, parents, athletes, students and mentors and at-risk youth in inner city Los Angeles. Her passion is helping families. All of us will face obstacles. There's no preventing it. But when we teach children resilience skills, we open the doors for them to move past these obstacles quickly and access their best-feeling life. We give them the tools to choose good-feeling relationships, to pursue their dreams, and to grow into self-confident, compassionate, solution-focused adults.