Can you spare 30 minutes for a coffee?
🌿 Are you parenting or teaching children who our school system isn’t serving. Or have you done so in the past?
🌿 Have you survived your own educational trauma and see the patterns repeating?
🌿 Maybe you are reimagining what learning could look like rooted in love and compassion.
☕ You are invited for a virtual coffee with me. I’d like to hear your story.
I’d love to connect with you.
I'm a parent, grandparent, and former teacher who's navigated the education system from both sides. I lost my son Sam to suicide at 19 - he was neurodivergent, brilliant, and the system failed him.
I know what it's like when schools insist your child needs to change to fit what's on offer, rather than meeting them where they are. I know what it's like when the resources simply aren't available to do what should be done. And I know the harm and isolation that follow.
I’m creating a community space for us to heal, share our stories and gather our collective wisdom
I'm creating something I wish had existed years ago: a small, intentional online community space for parents, grandparents, carers, teachers, and adults who were themselves failed by the education system.
Not another sprawling Facebook group but somewhere we can actually connect without the noise. Somewhere we can recover our trust in our own intuition and our confidence to advocate clearly for our children - for all of our children - and to find some space to heal our own exhaustion, stress and and whatever we're carrying.
I'm imagining that this could be both a sanctuary and something more: a place where we heal ourselves and where our collective wisdom contributes to the wider conversation about how education serves our children.
Our community could include:
Story circles where people truly listen
Monthly themes that speak to the reality of this journey
Live gatherings for real connection
Invited guests who want to hear what we have to say
Prompts for shared reflection and conversation
I want to hear what would make this of value to you.
What would make you excited to meet the other people in the circle?