Connection Bridge is a 12-week, parent-first program that helps you stop living in daily crisis with your child's behavior — without shaming them, and without losing yourself.
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Families whose child's explosive, defiant, or confusing behavior goes way beyond what an app or a script can hold.
A 12-week, parent-first program that helps you stop living in daily crisis — without shaming your child and without losing yourself.
One 30-minute call to start. We listen, we find the fit, and if it's a yes you can enroll on the call.
You are not failing. The apps and the scripts weren't built for a kid whose nervous system is reading threat all day. Something else is needed — and it starts with you. Not because you're the problem, but because you're the leverage.
We're Sara and Matt, and we've worked alongside Minnesota families since 2013 — families whose kids have explosive, defiant, or confusing behavior. We don't believe in fixing kids. We believe in helping nervous systems come back into relationship, starting with the adults they read all day long.
We know how isolating this feels. You've tried everything and nothing sticks. After years of this work we keep landing on one truth: healing doesn't happen in isolation, it happens in relationship. Most services pull your child into a room, work on skills, and hand you a two-minute recap at the door.
Connection Bridge flips that. When you have more steadiness and a real plan, your child feels it before you say a word. And real change happens at 7:13 on a Tuesday evening — not in a 50-minute appointment once a week.
Healthy influence with your child, instead of feeling powerless.
Emotional safety at home, so your child can actually settle.
Parenting you can sustain, without the guilt, the frustration, or the burnout.
Two extended sessions just for new parents, so you land in a no-shame room and learn the map before the pace picks up.
Live teaching you can use the same night, built around a simple map we call the Relationship Triangle: what your child is asking for, how you show up, and how much to ask of them right now.
A small, steady group of 6 to 8 families who get it. The same people every time. This is the part parents tell us mattered most.
Bring the thing that happened Tuesday.
Around week 4 and week 9, to build a Family Rhythm you keep long after the 12 weeks.
Whoever does the caregiving counts: parents, grandparents, foster and adoptive parents.
By the end of 12 weeks, you'll have a Family Rhythm written down (not in your head) that both caregivers can actually follow on a Tuesday night — plus a short list of green-light and red-light expectations, so you're not guessing in the moment.
Portions of the program include modules from Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: A Course for Parents. Course developed by Robyn Gobbel.
Twelve weeks. Here's the honest rhythm, so you know exactly what you're saying yes to before you say it.
That's roughly two to three hours of live time in a normal week, except those first two weeks, which run about three. Always at the same times, so it becomes a rhythm instead of one more thing to track. And when a week falls apart, that's allowed. You come back. Nobody starts over.
You don't just get teaching. As a Founding family you get four specific tools, each one built for a specific fear.
A plain-language way to tell what's trauma, what's neurodivergence, and what's "just behavior," so you stop guessing and know what to try first.
Permission, and the math, to put your own steadiness first — plus the words to explain that choice to a partner or a relative.
Exactly what to say, and what not to, with schools, the county, and providers — so you can be honest without handing anyone a weapon.
A "Dear Grandparent" letter, a short watch-this video, and boundary scripts for the relatives who keep saying "just be firmer."
We're opening Connection Bridge to its first ten founding families. Founders don't get a discount — they get more:
When ten families are in, we start a waitlist at the same price.
You can't really know if work like this is right for your family from a page on the internet. You only know once you're inside it — with your real child and your real Tuesdays.
So when you enroll as a Founding family, we'll name together two or three shifts you want to see at your house. If, by the end of week six, you've been with us for real — both On-Ramp sessions, at least four of the first six Academy calls live, at least one Integration Circle live, and your first 1:1 — and you're not noticing any movement on the shifts we named, email us before week seven starts and we'll refund every dollar. No debate, no hard feelings.
Week six is your real decision point. Right now is just you giving yourself the chance to make that decision with actual experience instead of guesses.
for your family
— or $5,400 on a plan ($1,800 to start, then three monthly payments of $1,200).
We start new families once a month so the group stays steady. When this month's spots are full, we roll you to the next.
"This is where I feel valued as a parent, where I don't in other places. My whole life has changed. And she has changed for the better being out here. If I can learn a new way of parenting at 76, which is not easy, anyone can learn this for the betterment of your child and yourself."
"Previous to coming to Dandelion, my daughter and I had been through many programs, and nothing seemed to work because everything was so dictated on what their schedule was versus what she actually needed. Her progress has been tremendous. She is able to communicate with other people, she is able to leave the house and do shopping with me, travel and do things in the community. Previous to being out here, she would never, ever go with anybody."
"Dandelion is about creating a safe space and creating a relationship, whether it is with animals or through people. If something comes up and you need three hours to get it done, they will take that three hours and put everything else on hold to make sure it is taken care of. That is what happened to me, and that is what saved my child from foster care."
If quick fixes worked, you wouldn't be here. Real change starts at home, so we hand you tools you can use the same night. Coaching happens on the farm, in your home, or virtually, so it fits a full life.
Anything that works on the child alone tends to stall. Change holds when the grownups are in it too. We help you read what the behavior is actually telling you and build the connection underneath it.
No shame, no judgment — everyone is welcome. Behavior is communication, not bad parenting. We're here to help you understand what's really going on and hand you the tools, without the guilt.
Caregivers who commit to this see real change. It takes time — real change always does. Even if your child has been in therapy for years, doing it as a whole family is what makes the difference. And you won't be left guessing in the scary moments. We walk through them with you.
One 30-minute call. You talk, we listen, and together we choose the one expectation to lower first at your house. We're honest about fit, both ways. If it's a yes, you can enroll on the call. If it's not, you'll still leave with a real next step.
