Biography

Jess Sieber Grasso is an advocate for women, children and families. Relationship building is at the heart of her work. 

Through her offerings, Jess promotes the ongoing development of consciousness and meaningful connection to nature. She provides ripe opportunities for adults to expand their awareness and experience more cohesion in relationships. For children, Jess provides a return to timelessness in nature. Her modeling of genuine curiosity and enthusiasm hold children in a safe and expansive container that builds their confidence and sparks their awareness and appreciation of the natural world.

For a decade Jess was a lead mentor and the program director at Wilderness Youth Project of Santa Barbara, where she was mentored in the field of nature-connection and facilitation.

Jess holds a master's degree in Human Development with an emphasis on Leadership. She is a certified Parent Coach through the Jai Institute for Parenting. 

As a wilderness guide, nature-connection mentor and trained council facilitator, Jess has been facilitating transformative, nature-based offerings for all ages since 2003.

Jess has been a guest lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Ventura College, as well as an instructor at Antioch University, Santa Barbara.

It is with deep gratitude, reverence and humor that Jess continues on her own journey of life-long learning so she may best support those she works with and continue cultivating meaningful relationships with others and the natural world. 

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Jess' Extended Bio in Her Words:

Through my parent coaching work, I help families to shift from overwhelm and reactivity to responsiveness, empathy, attunement and cooperation. The parents I serve are eager to better understand their children, reflect on their own patterns and limiting beliefs and upgrade the quality of their family's everyday life. 

My work with women (not all mothers) encourages a reclaiming of one's innate worth and potential. Women who work with me are inspired to transform their relationship with Self in order to feel a deeper sense of connection and purpose so they may take action from a place of self-honor and knowing.

For ten years, I was a part of Wilderness Youth Project, a high-functioning, culturally grounded organization with values rooted in relationship building, nature connection and social change. I started as a volunteer and advanced to one of four executive leadership positions. I was able to excel because I was mentored, inspired, and guided to expand my own capacities while having daily opportunities to apply my learning.

I have also worked for organizations that struggled to practice what they preached, had high leadership turnover, and lacked systems of mentoring and constructive feedback. This spectrum of experiences has taught me countless lessons about what ensures growth and transformation, and what stunts it.

My spiritual journey began at the age of 19 upon attending my first Siddha Yoga Intensive and receiving shaktipat (an initiation of awakening spiritual energy). In years to follow I continued to encounter teachings, practices and mentors in the fields of yoga, meditation, nature-connection, and consciousness. Becoming a mother in 2015 elevated my journey of self-awareness and connection to Spirit beyond my greatest expectations. Over the past five years I have engaged in ongoing apprenticeships and mentoring with consciousness and energetic centered coaches, honing my intuitive and mentoring skills.

It is my passion, pleasure, and purpose to guide people to further develop themselves while cultivating a deep connection with the natural world. The lenses of nature connection and social change greatly influence the design and integrity of my offerings, as I source my inspiration and edges for growth from the natural world and a commitment to being an agent of awakening.

I'd love to connect with you to see if we are a good match.