Family Sovereignty Experiment
What about a community run hub? Does anyone want to winter together somewhere? Jan - March in Central America?
Costa Rica preferred as we are already here! For a little family sovereignty experiment? Also open to Canadian Snow Covered Cabins for a slower kinda vibe.
Reclaim family sovereignty
Learn to follow The Way of The Child
Allow community to lighten your load
Let’s find a place we can all live. My nervous system says separately in our own space an essential first entry. But within a shared community. A lodge. Casitas. Rentals in the same area. Open to new! We could find somewhere together or maybe you have the perfect idea. Budget because the name of the game here is sovereignty! We are saving for our futures. Preparing for the unknowns while also wanting to enjoy and experience life amongst like minded families. Conscious parents seeking mature grounded conversations, responsible for self but open to shared experiences. Who are seeking a grounded community experience. An experiment in community living.
We are a family of 4 from Canada, with kids 7 and 8. We are both creative entrepreneurs by heart and sometimes I do academic research. I’ve founded my own private school, we’ve done homeschooling, played with overlanding for a about a second, tried a bit of world schooling and now we have been experimenting in Costa Rica for 6 months and have tried 2 private schools because we wanted community. We’ve tried a lot of things and have blown through more money than we should have by making many mistakes. But I suppose that’s the name of the game and is part of forging an unknown path! We spent so long bouncing around communities, I’ve engaged in endless homeschool facebook groups in CR and Canada, and finding a place to land with a like-minded community of homeschoolers nearby, a dream not yet a reality!
So, I’m dreaming up a community experience…
I can provide rich and magical experiences for the children. We can collectively agree on a fair exchange, I’m open. I am tunnel vision obsessed with alternative education and I am beginning to build an academy for Sovereign Families and would love to play around and test some ideas amongst other like minded families. We can co-create our experience together. We can share some meals. Gather. Relate. And also be gifted more stability and time, grounded with our own families.
I’m envisioning children engaged in project based, hands on, challenging experiences. The goal here is to make real life so epic the artificial glow doesn’t stand a chance :) I’ll plan it all, I’ll manage the container, weave experiences, schedule outings, tours, learning opportunities. However, we’ll share responsibilities and each contribute our gifts and time as well. If all goes as planned in my mind - once a week you’re on duty (but around here, it’s called duty honours*).
The children will have local adventures sure, but this is more about rooted experiences and belonging. At the core of my belief as I build my academy is that each child is viewed as sacred. Exactly who they are meant to be. You don’t need to tell the acorn to become the Oak. It has the Oak within it. This is more about deepening each child’s individual skills and strengths. It’s about empowering them and building their confidence. It’s about allowing for mistakes and building resilience. Guiding them into ways of collaboration and sharing resources and strengths. During a recent project, my son took care of the engineering and my daughter took care of the design. It would look something like that.
It’s about allowing them to lead. To have autonomy and choice. To honour their unique essence. To help them remember what that is, by reducing or eliminating the artificial glow. Could we try to make real life so epic that the screens lose their appeal? Fighting for them to reclaim their focus. Their imagination. Their creativity. Allowing ourselves to do the same.
More experience.
More presence.
More creation.
Educating our children is not out-sourced. But, just like the children, we weave our strengths together and pool resources to give our children rich experiences. We each contribute a day of our time to the group. And the best part. The most beautiful part? We will also be gifted precious time - to spend with intent - on our own creative visions. Intentional time to pour into your project. With time to hear and support one another with our own creative passions. To add fuel and troubleshoot. To offer advice and to hold each other’s ideas in the highest regard. Kinda like, what if you help with my website and I help with your year plan?
We are passionate about creativity. My husband is building a collective for creatives and through this experiment we will be offering spaces for inspiration. Every week we gather for our version of church for “Creative Ground”. Offline club vibes. We gather with the intent to create. To regulate. To connect. Bring your muse - writing a book, knitting, painting, sketching, building. Open mic. Share if you’d like. A story. A reading. A poem. Anything.
We don’t know how to live in a community. But we want to learn. Maybe we could all read Creating a Life Together to learn. This is for those who maybe have pondered the Eco Villas, the community living. Who want their own space but crave Ways of Old. Foraging amongst sisters. Men out fishing for our dinners. It’s for those of you who also crave the depth and connection but aren’t willing to settle or go back to the lives we all left. We tried. The comforts of home, the pull of safety, a temporary retreat and nope, never mind, I remember now. Even imperfect this is still better. Every failure bringing us closer to the answer we seek. Closure to clarity. And for now, the next step for us isn’t to leap into a land purchase or into an eco community. The ease sure sounds good. But let’s start slowly. Attract the most deeply aligned families. Take our time. Ponder the path. But support each other along the way. Allowing our own passion projects to flourish. Creating more freedom. More sovereignty. More ability to maybe one day build our own multi home jungle acreage. Maybe. Let us see. Following the pulls. This one was a hard one to accept. To gather my bravery. To take the leap. Not usually the faint of heart but we’ve just fallen so. Many. times.
Gathering gold I suppose. Preparing us for what’s next. Highlighting cracks in our foundation. Past ways coming up to be cleared. Learning how to BE in this new way together. Because no it hasn’t been picture perfect and magical. Yeah there’s been a lot of that AND there’s also been equal parts tears, worries, mistakes and decision fatigue. Can’t retreat. Keep going. Find your people. Grow and expand together.
Care to join us?
You can read more to see if there’s an alignment!
*duty honours: A phrase coined by my 7 year old and a guiding value of my academy. Our duty honour is to protect, guide, and to refill their waters 15 times a day.