Parentera Lab
We research how modern couples decide what family means to them.
We listen to what couples actually say, compare it with research, and test simple tools that help two people decide together.
How the lab works
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Listen. What couples write and say about family, in their own words.
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Read. We compare it with research on families and relationships.
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Try. Simple tools for two, and we check whether they actually helped.
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Share. Essays, observations and tools, openly.
Questions we explore
Each question is a field of our research. We look at what couples say about it, what research knows, and which simple tools help.
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Why do we want a family at all, and what is it for us?
- 02
How do we stay two whole people inside one family?
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Why do we want a child, and how do we have one without losing each other?
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Who earns, who decides about money, and how do we make it a shared decision?
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How do we share the load so that neither of us disappears in it?
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How do we move countries together, and not each on our own?
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What did we bring from our parents' families, and what do we choose to keep?
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What holds us together on ordinary days?
Talk it through
A guided conversation for two. You name a topic you are stuck on, and the tool asks one question at a time, following the GROW coaching model: Goal, Reality, Options, Will. You talk it over between yourselves and write down what you agreed. The tool asks; you decide.
Try the pilot
Tetiana Nitiahina
12 years in business. Mom of 3 kids.
For twelve years my husband and I have been building a family by different rules than our parents did: through relocations, a pandemic and three children, with a new agreement each time. Now I study how other couples do it. I am training in action methods in coaching and I co-founded Katalink Global, a venture studio.
Kateryna Ostapchuk
25 years of business experience. Mom.
20+ years across Operations, Finance and HR leadership, executive search, and management consulting — including a decade advising companies on M&A, fundraising strategy, and international expansion across the US, China, Turkey, CIS, and the Middle East.
Kharkiv University of Humanities “People’s Ukrainian Academy” (PUA). Master of Social Science, Physiology and Sociology.
Dr. Iryna Holovnova
Methodological Advisor
PhD in Psychology (Candidate of Psychological Sciences), social psychology expert. 20 years improving the effectiveness of people and organisations; 300+ trainings in Ukraine, Israel, the UK and the US.
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