My journey on the path of conscious parenting started when my son was three years old. What began as a desire to live in greater harmony with a strong-willed child has evolved into a life-altering odyssey into my own liberation and healing. Part of this healing was the realization that the nuclear family structure within which I was raised was and remains woefully inadequate for the mutual thriving of parents and children. And yet, the communities I’ve lived with have each struggled to answer the question of how to do it better, together.

Few topics are more tender to us as people who care for children than how to best accompany our children, especially when endeavoring to do it in a way that’s counter to dominant culture. And yet without a great deal of openness, curiosity and courage, we risk repeating the same practices with which we were raised, and inflicting the same wounds on our children that we are trying to heal now within ourselves, often oblivious to their origin.

The Village Child Project is where I engage in the research and exploration of collectively accompanying children through a lens of mutual liberation work. It is a place where I offer what I know, learn more from the communities I work with, and help weave a web of connection for those who share a vision of a collectively oriented nonviolent future for all. I work with an awareness of attachment theory, birth trauma, multigenerational and early trauma, Polyvagal Theory, neurodiversity and systemic nonviolence. If you’d like to walk beside me, please reach out.