The Bloom Umbrella™ ecosystem
The Bloom Umbrella™ supports flourishing through three pathways. Explore the one that speaks to where you are and what you hope to strengthen. There is no required order.
A trauma-informed pathway for identity reclamation, emotional safety, and healing without pressure. Bloom-Unbound™ meets people where they are, offering gentle reflection tools and structured support for rebuilding self-trust, voice, and agency.
True wealth begins with character. Bloom-a-Bean™ transforms financial literacy into a living, multigenerational practice, fostering delayed gratification, wise decision-making, and healthier relationships with money for sustainable family flourishing.
Explore The Money Garden™ workbook and companion guide →
Also from The Bloom Umbrella™: The 66 Steps of The Bloom Umbrella →
Bloom In Service™ supports volunteers, leaders, donors, partners, and community builders in directing knowledge, capacity, and resources toward sustainable contribution. It brings together youth leadership, volunteer storytelling, MELR, community and business planning, organizational capacity building, and grassroots stewardship.
See how four repeatable questions help a cooperative monitor its work, evaluate progress, learn, and report.
Read “What Counting Can Grow” →
BLOOM-A-BEAN™ FINANCIAL EDUCATION SERIES · THE FOUNDATIONAL STORY
Helping Children, Youth and Young Adults Build a Healthy Relationship with Money
By Janepher Otieno · The Bloom Umbrella Press
Janepher wanted dinner. Her mother planted the beans for a future harvest. What grew became more than food: a lesson in patience, care and the potential hidden in small beginnings.
This origin story and conversation companion turns that childhood memory into a shared learning journey for ages 3–21. Start with the story that seeded the series, then choose the pathway that fits your learner.
Available in paperback and Kindle editions.
Paperback: 32 full-colour pages. Kindle: illustrated reflowable reading edition; use a separate notebook for responses. The Kindle edition is not a fillable workbook or a printable PDF.
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Grow a conversation. Plant a possibility.
BLOOM-A-BEAN™ • AGES 6–9 • BY JANEPHER OTIENO
The Money Garden™ pairs a child’s workbook with a Parent & Facilitator Guide for a 12-week journey through saving, spending, planning, generosity, and everyday decisions. Explore together at home, in a classroom, or with a community learning group.
Story, drawing, rhymes, Money Missions™, and the Tula Pause™ make room for curiosity, conversation, and practice. Children plant a saving goal and explore how small choices grow over time.
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The companion to Workbook 2 helps parents, teachers, caregivers, and community facilitators guide money conversations with clear prompts and practical activities. Support thoughtful choices at a pace that fits your learners.
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Schools, homeschool groups, libraries, community organizations, and family programs are invited to purchase the workbook and companion guide for classroom learning, parent–child sessions, reading groups, and community money conversations.
Start with a workbook for each child and a guide for the supporting adult. Ask us about classroom sets, group purchases, facilitated sessions, or a workshop suited to your setting. Any group pricing or reproduction permissions are agreed separately.
Prefer PDF + EPUB? Shop the digital editions →BLOOM-A-BEAN™ FINANCIAL EDUCATION · AGES 3–21
Plant a bean, start a money box, and practise pausing before choosing. Bloom-A-Bean turns everyday money moments into a 12-week learning journey through saving, sharing, waiting, and needs versus wants.
Meet Bloom the Bunny, Sunny the Seedling, and Tula the Turtle. Their stories and the Tula Pause™ give younger learners a memorable way to slow down and consider a choice.
Trauma-informed. Educationally sound. Created by nurse educator and author Janepher Otieno, the activities connect money concepts with everyday experiences and supported practice—without shame, pressure, or comparison. Families bring different resources and experiences; learners can participate at their own pace.
Start with Workbook 1, ages 3–5, and explore its companion Parent & Facilitator Guide. Workbook 2: The Money Garden supports ages 6–9. Check the stage pages for current formats and availability.
Later stages for ages 10–21 are planned. Alongside parent and facilitator guides, planned peer-learning and mentorship editions will support older youth to self-lead, collaborate, and build financial confidence in peer-led teams.
Use the local coins and currency familiar to your learners when discussing saving and spending.
Financial learning for classrooms, families, and community programs.
Learner workbooks and companion Parent & Facilitator Guides help teachers, schools, homeschool networks, and community organizations guide learning with confidence.
Tell us about your learners, group size, and setting so we can discuss suitable resources and permissions.
Enquiries go to The Bloom Umbrella at hello@thebloomumbrella.com. Licensing permissions are confirmed in writing. Purchasing a book or digital download does not automatically include permission to reproduce or distribute it.
FOCUSED YOUTH INITIATIVE
For gaming-immersed Black youth and young adults ready to build voice, belonging, outward engagement, and opportunity.
BLACK-SERVING YOUTH INITIATIVE
GAMING CULTURE • VOICE • BELONGING • OPPORTUNITY
AVIGALO™ is a family-coined name formed from A Video Game Loving One. The journal also gives it a forward-looking meaning: Awakened Visionaries Igniting Generational And Lasting Outcomes. It began with one video-game-loving young person's story—not an autism diagnosis—and grew into a focused initiative for Black youth and young adults ages 18–30 whose gaming-centered lives have narrowed opportunities for connection, self-expression, education, employment, or community participation.
Why it exists: Gaming-immersed young people are too often described only through adults’ concerns about screen time, withdrawal, stalled plans, or conflict. Raising AVIGALO™ looks more curiously at what gaming may also reveal—persistence, pattern recognition, belonging, mastery, imagination, and a language through which support can begin.
The vision: to make gaming a bridge rather than a battleground. Familiar concepts such as respawn, level up, quests, and legacy mode help young people and the people supporting them explore resets, daily growth, contribution, and lives of significance.
A Guided Journal for Gamers Exploring Voice, Belonging, and Opportunity. Eight quests explore Survival, Stability, Success, and Significance through reflection, worked examples, varied activities, and optional Move Forward challenges.
The 96-page paperback and Digital Reading Edition are available. Explore the book and edition details →
Rehearse asking for help, notice body signals, sketch a transition plan, and compare two possible next steps before choosing one small experiment. Explore how gaming skills might transfer into learning, work, and community.
Readers choose what to keep private and what to share. A dedicated Supporter Companion helps parents, mentors, and allies listen, respect boundaries, and plan collaboratively without taking over. Guidance on finding community and professional support offers a starting point when more help is needed.
Program fit: Raising AVIGALO™ is designed for participants who can engage in structured group learning and personal-development activities with reasonable accommodations and without continuous one-to-one care or clinical supervision.
It is not a clinical treatment, crisis service, respite program, personal-care service, or intensive disability-support program. Participation follows an intake and program-fit process based on the participant's goals, readiness, support requirements, and the program's available capacity.
BLOOM UNBOUND™ • FEATURED BOOKS
Two books and reader resources on recognizing coercive control and rebuilding voice and self-trust.
BLOOM UNBOUND™ • SELECTED RESOURCE
The Songbird and the Weaver reflective framework held the #1 position in Amazon.ca’s Hot New Releases for Domestic Partner Abuse for several days. Its allegory companion reached #2 twice and #3 twice in the same category.
TWO COMPLEMENTARY BOOKS
Read either book first, move between them, or experience them together. Each stands on its own; together they offer story and structure.
Follow the Songbird’s full emotional arc in a single narrative. It suits readers who connect first through story and supporters seeking shared language for experiences that can be difficult to name directly.
Explore pattern-recognition tools, Observer Snapshots, reflection questions, relational frameworks, and practical integration for personal, professional, or facilitated use.
Bloom Unbound™ draws on reflective resources that support clarity, voice, agency, and the restoration of self-trust.
Among the resources we recommend is The Songbird and the Weaver by Liora Almas, together with its allegory companion and supporting reader materials.
Gentle reading note: These resources explore relational control and its effects on voice, perception, and self-trust. Please engage at your own pace.
Educational and reflective only. It does not assess, diagnose, treat, or replace individualized medical, psychological, legal, or safety support.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS • UNDER DEVELOPMENT
Clinics, shelters, community organizations, educators, and faith communities can discuss how the books and future facilitator resources might fit their work. We are developing licensing options for individual practitioners, small teams, and larger organizations.
Inquiries can cover staff access, permitted use, training needs, and the privacy and safety requirements of your setting. Scope, formats, and pricing will be agreed individually as the program develops.
Please do not include client names, case details, or safety plans in an inquiry.
