NEST Collective — Together, we build what matters

Executive function support through a motor and participation lens

Support should fit the person—not the other way around.

NEST Collective helps children, families, educators, and communities understand how executive functioning, physical and sensory needs, everyday demands, and surroundings work together—and build practical, human support for the things that matter most.

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Find your way in

Begin with what you’re noticing, what matters, or what you hope could feel different.

Together, we’ll look across people, tasks, and environments to understand the whole picture and shape support around meaningful priorities.

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Child & family support

Collaborative executive function support that considers motor and sensory needs, participation, and the everyday routines that matter to your child and family.

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Schools & organizations

Professional learning and consultation that build on staff strengths, deepen shared understanding, and support sustainable practice.

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Learn & gather

Community education and creative experiences where people can explore ideas, make meaningful connections, and learn alongside one another.

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Support is something we build together.

For children & families

Build support around what matters to your child and family.

Our work begins with curiosity: What matters to this child? Where does participation feel easier or harder? What strengths, relationships, strategies, and environmental supports can we build upon together?

  • Executive function support
  • Parent and caregiver consultation
  • Collaboration across home, school, and community
  • Child- and family-centered goals and strategies

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Executive Function & Everyday Participation

Participation-focused coaching for families navigating routines, transitions, getting started, organization, emotional regulation, independence, and how thinking, sensory, and movement needs come together in daily life.

We look at the relationship among the person, the task, the environment, and the people offering support—then build practical approaches around the family’s own priorities.

Ways to work togetherFocused conversation · short-term support · a more comprehensive partnershipView options & pricing

Choose the amount of support that fits the situation you are navigating. Each option begins with your goals, values, strengths, and everyday realities, whether our focus is executive function, motor participation, or the places where they overlap.

One focused conversation

Explore

A single, focused conversation designed to help you understand the situation you are navigating and leave with a direction.

  • Pre-session reflection
  • 75–90 minute collaborative consultation
  • Personalized summary with key insights and next steps
  • Thoughtfully selected resources or tools, when they add value

$165

Try, reflect, and adjust

Build

A focused experience with time and space to move from understanding into action and learn from real life—not simply create a plan.

  • Everything included in Explore
  • Up to three additional 75-minute conversations
  • Approximately six weeks of support
  • Updated reflections, resources, and next steps as needed

$495

Comprehensive, intentionally paced support

Grow

Our most comprehensive partnership: building understanding, refining support as life unfolds, and gradually creating more space as confidence grows.

  • Everything included in Explore
  • Up to 10 conversations over 12 weeks
  • A cadence that gradually spaces conversations farther apart
  • Ongoing reflection, individualized resources, and evolving next steps
  • A final reflection and roadmap

$1,195

Support is intentional and episodic, with the goal of building understanding, confidence, and capacity—not long-term dependence. Motor-focused support is a future offering; joining the interest list helps shape what comes next.

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For schools & organizations

Build shared understanding into everyday practice.

NEST professional learning pairs a deeper understanding of executive function, neurodevelopment, movement, and access with concrete ways to invite the learner, prepare the environment, create access, and build independence.

Professional learning options60-minute training · half day · full day · customized partnershipsView formats & pricing

Focused training

A 60-minute learning experience centered on one clearly defined topic, including brief pre-training collaboration, preparation, and customization.

$175

Half-day professional learning

A practical, high-impact experience that builds shared understanding and connects it to support strategies across the school day.

Starting at $650

Full-day professional learning

Foundational learning followed by a collaborative workshop that moves teams from understanding to application, systems planning, and supports shaped around their students and goals.

Starting at $950

Professional learning guide

Explore sample training topics.

View training topics, formats, and starting prices in an easy-to-share guide for your school or team.

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Let’s create what your team needs.

Customized options can include a one-time learning event, a focused consultation, or an ongoing capacity-building partnership. The goal is to leave your team with shared understanding, practical tools, and systems that continue working long after our time together.

Consultation, coaching, and customized systems work are scoped separately.

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What we’re growing

NEST-style motor systems support

Coaching-centered motor services that integrate related service, UDL, and MTSS—supporting access without building unnecessary silos or caseloads.

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Inclusion & belonging consultation

Help more people participate in what your organization already offers. NEST examines environments, communication, routines, and participation expectations so disabled and neurodivergent people can feel welcomed into the experiences available to everyone.

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Learn & Gather

Come learn, create, and make meaningful connections.

Community classes make neurodevelopmental information approachable and relevant to everyday life. Creative workshops give children meaningful things to do while adults experience supportive strategies through modeling, conversation, and shared participation.

It’s Not Just Hyperactivity: Understanding ADHDA community conversation for the people who raise, teach, coach, and create spaces for ADHD children. A free one-hour introduction, with the option to join a low-cost deeper dive series to follow.Join our next conversation →
Creative workshopsNEST creative workshops combine making, movement, problem-solving, and connection. A workshop might involve building a tiny world, designing something with moving parts, creating a project around a shared story, or exploring a hands-on challenge that invites planning, flexibility, persistence, and collaboration.Explore upcoming workshops ↓

Workshops for your group

Have a group or an idea in mind? Let’s shape something together.

Experiences can be developed for homeschool groups, schools, community organizations, families, or other small groups. Some may be designed around a particular theme or learning goal; others may simply offer a welcoming place to create together.

Create from a story

Bring characters, settings, imagined worlds, or shared ideas to life through hands-on making.

Design & engineer

Explore structures, moving creations, simple machines, and open-ended building challenges.

Shape, carve & compose

Work with materials through experiences such as soapstone carving, block printing, pressed botanicals, and mixed-material construction.

Create something together

Contribute individual ideas and skills to a shared construction, installation, or collaborative build.

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Upcoming NEST experiences

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About NEST

Clinical knowledge. Educational experience. A deeply human way of making sense of what feels complicated.

NEST Collective was founded by Shana Anders, PT, DPT—a school-based physical therapist, educator, parent of neurodivergent children, and unapologetic executive-function nerd.

Her work is shaped by clinical knowledge, years of educational practice, and the lived experience of supporting her family while learning to understand and support her own neurodivergent brain.

Shana brings movement science, school-based practice, and real-life perspective into work that is collaborative, strengths-based, and grounded in the belief that support should create access without taking away agency.

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Start a conversation

Let’s begin with what you’re noticing.

Share what feels important, what you’re hoping to understand, or where you would welcome support. We’ll explore the next step together.

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Wenatchee, Washington · Virtual and in-person support