Meet Your Guide

Mandie Kender, MA

Mandie is an experienced therapist and parent coach who currently serves as Regional Director at OhioKAN, where she supports kinship caregivers and adoptive parents. She is the founder and owner of Authentic Living, where she provides conflict and mediation coaching and helps families and communities cultivate more peaceful, connected relationships.

Mandie is a Certified Transformational Parent Coach through the Jai Institute for Parenting and an ADHD/Executive Function Parent Coach. She is also a licensed provider of Calm and Connected: Parenting Children and Teens with ADHD/Executive Function Challenges© and ADHD & Executive Function Challenges: The Social & Emotional Impact on Learning, Motivation, Behavior, and the Family System©, both developed by Cindy Goldrich, Ed.M., ADHD-CCSP of PTS Coaching LLC.

Coaching with Mandie helped me understand that the struggles I was having with my son were normal and together with my son, I could make things better. She taught me how to see my sons' needs and that has changed things so much. We used to fight every day and now we fight maybe once a month. We are now able to see our conflict as a way to make our family stronger and we resolve them so much more quickly. - Name here

The one thing that really stood out for my family is learning how to use the No Fault Zone game when we have conflict. We resolve problems much quicker. - Name here

Thank you for such an amazing workshop. I’ve heard folks talking about practicing between sessions, so I know you have given folks an amazing new skill set. - Name here

I have started using the No Fault Zone in my classroom and it has changed how students talk to each other. Thank you for sharing this tool with us. - Name here

I have studied NVC for years, but your presentation helped me put it into practice and helped me move it from my brain into practice. - Name here