Raising Moxie®️

Education for Adults. Liberation for the Next Generation.

Raising Moxie®️ equips adults—educators, parents, and community leaders—with the skills, language, and frameworks to meet children’s developmental needs with precision, warmth, and oversight. Through community education and professional development, we build adult fluency to foster growth-promoting environments where every child can thrive.

We exist to ensure no child is pathologized for being out of sync with broken systems. Instead, we empower adults to lead systemic repair.​​

 

We go way upstream!

The Surf’sUP Method®️ guides adults to practice ways of supporting the essential foundations children need—so kids can tolerate stress and emotions, eventually learning to move with purpose, direction, and genuine human connection.

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• Build Adult Skill Fluency We explicitly teach adults how to lead with warmth and demand—because warmth without demand is enablement, and demand without warmth is harm.

• Reclaim High Expectations Warm Demanders* regulate kids naturally. We help adults embody this balance.

• Protect Foundational Needs Children’s needs—human connection, literacy, health, and physical protection—are civil rights, not preferences or privileges.

• Disrupt Systemic Harm We don’t fix kids. We fix systems.

• Model Vulnerable Leadership Authenticity is strategy, but with emotional resonance, it is power! 

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Our Belief

We believe that adult skill-building is the gateway to systemic repair. When adults are equipped to lead relationally and rigorously, children flourish. Our evidence-based programming is designed to restore dignity, elevate expectations, and protect every child’s right to thrive.

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We protect kids’ foundational needs, disrupt systemic harm, and

model authentic leadership.

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