How to Cut Fruit for Yourself™

A Culturally Grounded Program for People of Colour. For those who learned to take care of everyone else first and never quite got to the part where they learned to take care of themselves.

In so many of our families, someone would quietly peel and slice fruit and bring it to you without asking. It was love, handed over without explanation. If you grew up where love was practical and words were scarce, you know exactly what this means.

But somewhere along the way, you picked up the habit of doing that for everyone else and forgot to do it for yourself.

This program invites you to turn that gesture inward. To practice self-compassion in the way it was always meant to feel and something you actually do. And to reparent yourself: by learning, now, to give yourself what care looks like going forward. Reparenting gets talked about a lot. What it means, why it matters. The how, less so — especially when you're doing it without a template, without people around you who speak this language, and with a guilt that sits quiet underneath every good thing.

A gentle, skills-based group coaching space rooted in culture, care and community.

You might recognise this:

• You care deeply for others but find it hard to prioritise yourself.

• Rest feels like something you have to earn. And you never quite feel like you've earned it.

• You're looking for care that sees the different parts of you, including the parts shaped by culture, family, and the particular exhaustion of living between worlds.

• You want to learn from psychologists with lived experience in this, not just clinical knowledge

• And you're looking for a community of people on a similar journey.

If this feels like you, this is a space created for us.

For over twelve years, I walked into therapy rooms and heard the same story wearing different faces. I know these stories from the inside, too. Finding care for myself has not come easily and I have lived the particular difficulty of knowing, clinically, what self-compassion looks like and still not being able to reach it at times. When I became a parent, and being faced with the same patterns again, I was pulled to do something with all of this became undeniable. This program is that doing. Twelve years of clinical learning and lived experience, shaped into a program designed by and for our community.

The Program

‘How to Cut Fruit for Yourself’ is a warm, skills-based group space for People of Colour (POC), led by Clinical Psychologist Vi Tran. Over six weeks, through the lens of self-compassion, reparenting and culture, you'll learn how to turn care inward as something that belongs to you. Even as adults we can learn new ways to foster kindness and show up for ourselves with wisdom and respect

This is not therapy and not a lecture. It is a space to practice. The approaches are evidence-based drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Schema Therapy — but the knowledge in the room isn't only academic. Lived experience is always in the room, including mine.

What we’ll explore

Over six weeks, we'll look at the patterns that formed before you had language for them — and begin, slowly, to soften them. Reparenting yourself through a cultural lens. The narratives and values you inherited, and what it means to examine them with care rather than rejection. The long habit of sacrifice. How to pause, breathe, and return to yourself with presence. Daily tools for emotion regulation that work in real life, not just in theory.

What You’ll Receive:

• 6 x Live Group Online Coaching Sessions with Vi Tran and special guest Vi-An Nguyen

• 6 x Pre-recorded Self-Paced Modules with culturally responsive, evidence-informed content (12-month access, with flexible extensions available)

• Thoughtfully designed Workbooks for each module, created to help you reflect

• Session Replays (Available as guided by the group, protecting the sensitivity of what's shared)

• A Community of a small group of people who understand the particular weight of being between worlds (Maximum 10 participants purposefully kept small.)

When and Where?

When: 7:00PM – 8:00PM AEST
Dates: Every Tuesday from 21 July - 25 August 2026, for 6 weeks
Format: Live online group sessions + self paced modules accessed via a Learning Portal with pre-recorded Modules (12 months access)

We're holding this online so that everyone across the lands we know as Australia can access it.

About this Space

Group spaces can feel overwhelming, especially if you've spent your whole life performing for others or managing how you're perceived. This space was designed with that in mind.

In this space, you can:

• Listen quietly and take notes, no pressure to speak

• Share when and if you're ready

• Know that care is held for those who find traditional group dynamics hard

• Participate in ways that feel right for you, not what the room expects

You are welcome exactly as you are. Participation is never performative here

Navigating Our Pricing

We want this program to reach the people who need it most. Finances are a real barrier to care. Our pricing tiers are adapted from the Green Bottle Method Alexis J. Cunningfolk which is a sliding scale framework built on trust and economic justice.

Supported Rate — $395 (code: ACCESS2026)

There are some spots available for supported rates if you have unstable income, if you carry debt or caring responsibilities that affect your capacity to meet basic needs — if paying the full rate would cause hardship.

Sustainer Rate — $760

This rate is for you if you have consistent income and can meet your basic needs if paying this rate is a real commitment, but not a source of hardship. This tier sustains the program for future cohorts.

Choose where you honestly find yourself right now. No application or explanation needed. If your employer or a funding body is covering your attendance, please choose the full investment tier. Spots are limited and the program closes once full.

What People Are Saying

"I can acknowledge and pay homage to my roots, upbringing and values that I've gathered along the way from my culture. But also allowing myself to have boundaries and/or let go of things that no longer serve/are a disservice.." — Former Participant

".. expertly guided accountability, a sense of solidarity, shared learnings.." — Former Participant

".. I already have recommended.. to a colleague who has spoken about how sometimes it feels that their Asian culture holds them back from being a "leader" at work.." — Former Participant

Limited to 10 spots

After this intake, the program pauses until early-mid 2027. If this has been on your mind, now is the time.

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Your Facilitators

Vi Tran

Founder & Program Lead & Facilitator 
Clinical Psychologist · Coach

Vi is a psychologist of Vietnamese heritage, daughter of former refugee and immigrant parents, someone who grew up moving between languages, expectations and worlds. She knows what it is to carry two cultures and find no space that holds both at once.

She has spent over a decade working with People of Colour navigating family, culture, identity and the kind of tiredness that doesn't go away after a weekend. She created workshops and programs like this because she kept hearing the same stories in the room. The answer wasn't more 1:1 sessions. It was something that could hold more people at once, without losing the depth that one-to-one work can hold.

Her approach is warm, direct and grounded in the specific. She won't ask you to translate yourself to access support.

Vi-An Nguyen

Special Guest Facilitator on Thriving at Work
Organisational Psychologist  ·  Coach 

Vi-An is an organisational psychologist who came to psychology through management consulting and community health. That path matters as she's spent years watching what happens to people inside systems that weren't built with them in mind, and she understands both the inner cost and the outer conditions that create it. She’ll be guiding you as a special guest for Module 5 and join as a coach for thought provoking discussions around what it means to “cut fruit” and thrive in your wellbeing with your relationship with work and your career.

Vi-An also works with identity, work, burnout, family and the particular weight of moving between cultures in her private practice. She runs anti-racist leadership workshops, hosts the podcast Spilling the Jasmine Tea, and carries the space with you that doesn't ask you to perform your way through it.

Fruitfully Asked Questions (FAQ’s)

Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ or reach out anytime.

• Why Cutting Fruit?

  For many of us raised in immigrant or collectivist households, love didn’t always sound like “I love you.” It looked like a plate of fruit left quietly on your desk. This program honours that language of care, and turns it inward..

• Is this your first time running the program?

  Nope! We’ve run this program before many times and continue to renew and refine it each time based on participant feedback. Every cohort brings new insight and care into how we carry and walk alongside you in this space. It’s a much loved program we are now running 1-2 times a year.

• Who is it not suitable for?

  If you're currently in crisis or require intensive support

  • If you’re already a client or have a personal or professional relationship with the facilitators

  • If you're enrolled in another coaching program

  • If you're seeking therapy (this is coaching not clinical treatment)

• Can I join from outside Australia?

  Currently, this program is for participants based in Australia. We’re working on making it more accessible internationally, let us know if you’d like to be updated.

• Do I need therapy or coaching experience?

  Not at all. This space is designed to meet you wherever you are in your journey.

• What if there aren't enough sign-ups?

  We require a minimum of 4 participants to ensure a meaningful group experience. If we don't reach this, you’ll have the option to:

  • Join the next cohort

  • Access the modules solo

  • Receive a full refund