01 Inputs

Soil, roots & resources

What Tissande is built from

The people and resources behind this platform, as they actually are today.

• A small team of co-founders building and moderating Tissande alongside their own jobs and families.
• Each founder's own lived experience of parenting while working, which is why this project exists at all.
• A modest, standard web platform, chosen to keep the project simple and sustainable to run.
• No institutional funding, clinical partnerships or paid experts at this stage — this is a peer-built, peer-run project.

02 Activities

Daily currents

What Tissande does

The ongoing work that keeps the site useful and alive.

• Publishing first-person reflections and tips from parents, organised across becoming a parent, work & career, wellbeing, and family life.
• Reviewing every question and answer submitted to the community before it goes public, to keep the space safe.
• Maintaining the site in English, French and Spanish.
• Adding new ways for a visitor to find what they need — write privately, read others' words, or ask the community directly.

03 Mechanisms

Symbiosis

How this creates change

The reasoning behind why these activities matter.

• Reading another parent's real account can reduce the isolation of feeling like the only one struggling.
• Short, concrete reflections are easier to take in than long guides, especially for an overwhelmed parent.
• Peer-reviewed questions and answers offer support without pretending to replace professional care — every panel says so clearly.
• Publishing in three languages widens who can actually find and use this.

04 Outputs

Leaves & blossoms

What exists today

The concrete things a visitor can use right now.

• A growing public archive of first-person tips and reflections, contributed by real parents.
• A form for any parent to add their own reflection to the archive.
• A moderated "ask the community" feature: a parent submits a question, another parent can answer, and nothing goes live until it's reviewed.
• The site itself, fully available in English, French and Spanish.

05 Outcomes

A more resilient canopy

What we're seeing so far, and hoping for

Medium-term shifts we're watching for as more parents use Tissande — not yet formally measured.

• Parents recognising their own experience in someone else's words, and feeling less alone.
• A small but real peer community forming around questions people didn't feel able to ask elsewhere.
• More visibility for the uneven distribution of care and mental load at home, as something worth naming out loud.
• Early, informal feedback from real users shaping what we build next.

06 Impact

Future forests

The long-term change we're working toward

Where we hope this leads, if Tissande keeps growing.

• A place where the mental load of parenting is talked about openly, not carried silently.
• Peer support that reaches parents in the gaps institutions and formal services don't cover.
• A more equitable sharing of caregiving and emotional labour, at home and at work.
• A wider network of parents supporting each other, sustained by the people who use it.

3 4 5 10 16 This ambition aligns with the UN SDGs on health, education, equality, inclusion & peace.