Make Your Home A Place Where Everyone Can Thrive

Learn the effective, doable techniques for a less stressed, more connected family life with the structure and community to actually make it work

Open to all parents and caregivers - whether your child is 3 or 13!

There’s no denying it: raising kids today is too often overwhelming.

  • The piling up of toys, gadgets, clothes, dishes and so much other stuff…

  • The deluge of information, choices, and judgement about whether any of it is ever good enough…

  • The frantic pace of an always-on, ever-achieving lifestyle….

All of it gets in the way of building close family bonds and creates an environment that can make kids anxious, generate or exacerbate behavioral challenges, and generally disrupt their healthy development and growth. More often than not, it does the same for the adults!

Thankfully, the Simplicity Parenting Family Life Course offers evidence based, field-tested and proven methods for reducing this overwhelm and the problems it creates so that everyone in your family can operate at their best and share their gifts with the world.

What You’ll Get From This Course

Less:

  • Clutter of kinds - obstructing closer family connections and healthy growth

  • Stress - on your kid(s), yourself, and everyone in the family

  • Emotional outbursts and challenging behavior to manage

  • Judgement or anxiety about how you are raising your kid(s).

More:

  • Connection and closeness among family members

  • Peace and stability in your home

  • Enjoyment from parenting and time with your kid(s)

  • Confidence and satisfaction in your choices in parenting

  • Support, both from a trained facilitator and from other like-minded parents experiencing the same joys and challenges

This is not an instructional course on how you should parent.

Odds are, you’re already a “good parent.”

You probably are already making thoughtful decisions about your child’s screen time, your approach to discipline, and the environment your child grows up in.

Maybe you also listen to Dr. Becky, read Janet Landsbury (or the Simplicity Parenting book on which this course is based), or follow some other impressive parenting expert to understand the latest and best techniques for raising “happy, healthy kids.”

Perhaps you even have a snappy name for your parenting philosophy!

And yet…

The highly dynamic, highly complex nature of raising a human being (not to mention running a whole family!) means that the on-the-ground reality of parenting often quickly overtakes whatever brilliant new strategy you've come across.

And in today’s world there is always something more urgent, more demanding, or more distracting filling your time and preventing you from making the changes you know you want to implement.

And all the while our kids continue to grow up and apart from us.

This is an opportunity to discover how to continually refine your approach so that you deliver the best family life for your kids and yourself.

Effectively integrating any change into your life is much more likely to hold when you have a structured environment offering accountability, support, and a space in which you feel secure to be open and honest.

That's what this group provides.

We don't just nod along with the experts and then dream about what it would be like to have a perfectly blissful family life.

We work together to translate the ideals from a renowned expert in child development into practical and actionable goals and strategies that meet the realities of our own lives in the real world so that we can make our family lives more rich and more enjoyable.

We do this by creating a container in which everyone feels heard, respected, and appreciated and therefore open to sharing some of our most personal joys and hardships.

The truth is, parenting is hard work; and no book, or podcast, or course will ever change that.

But it doesn't need to be the isolating, never-ending struggle it so often becomes today.

With this group course you gain not only the practical tools for improving family life but also the community of support for providing each other the validation, encouragement, and support we all need to create family lives centered on harmony, joy, and genuine connection.

Plus, working together makes the whole thing a lot more fun!

What Parents Say

  • “The Simplicity Parenting Class should be a required course for all parents. There is an expression that kids don’t come with an instruction manual. This class is the instruction manual. I found that the material applies to other aspects of life including business.”

    Brian, dad of two

  • "It can feel daunting to take on a text and implement changes in your daily rhythm, but Drew's course helped us to make movements towards the kind of harmony and growth we’d always aimed for. We also loved that the class made it easy to maintain our personal values and ideals. "

    Sarah, kids’ ages 5 and 3

  • "Drew Sample's facilitated course on 'Simplicity Parenting' was outstanding. His deft approach to combining the insightful content of Kim John Payne with engaging discussion among the parents produced a superb learning environment. We now approach our children with more empathy, operate with a more conscious and constructive rhythm at home, and have removed from our lives some of the activities and possessions that were disorienting our family."

    Jamie, kids’ ages 12 and 6

  • "I woud highly recommend the Simplicity Parenting course to anyone seeking practical ways to bring simplicity and balance into their daily family life. One of the highlights of the course was the engaging discussions with other parents, which provided a valuable opportunity to gain different perspectives and insights. The material presented in the course offered excellent practical strategies that I found easy and useful in introducing Simplicity Parenting principles into my own family. Overall, the course was enriching, enlightening, and has made a positive impact on our family dynamics."

    Remy, kid’s age 6

How It Works

The course consists of video material outlining the principles of the Simplicity Parenting method, plus four 90-minute group workshops in which we discuss how to apply the material to address real-world challenges and evaluate what is working and what might require refinement. Participants will watch the videos on their own schedule and meetings will happen over Zoom, approximately 3 weeks apart from each other.

Time: Monday evenings, 7:00-8:30 pm

Location: Zoom (link sent after registration)

The group is open to caregivers of all identities - dads, moms, nonbinary, and non-parent caregivers. This material is applicable and effective for parents in any phase of child-rearing, and many have even mentioned from taking the course multiple times! Couples can attend group sessions together, alternatively, or in whatever way works best for your family.

After registering, you’ll receive links to watch the video materials on the Simplicity Parenting platform, invitations to reserve the space for group meetings on your calendar, as well as suggestions on the precise schedule for watching videos and thematic discussions for meetings.

What’s Included?

  • Video lessons from renown family counselor and Simplicity Parenting author Kim John Payne. These materials are based on decades of research and clinical work, plus the experiences of thousands of parents worldwide, and provide prompts for our in-depth discussions.

  • 4 group workshops in which we will discuss the video material and how to apply cross disciplinary techniques and strategies - from child and human development, peak performance and consciousness, and high-performance leadership - to address your real-life challenges.

  • A community of like-minded parents who will validate your own experiences, impart invaluable perspective, and cheer you on when you need it most.

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About Your Facilitator

Drew Sample is a dad of two, founder of The Fatherhood Circle, and an official Simplicity Parenting Family Life Course facilitator. When he is not tending to the immediate needs of his own family, he helps parents and caregivers find the structure and support they need to be at their best with their families and provide the family life they desire and deserve. He can generally be found outside rather than inside and is a certified Guide in peak performance, consciousness , and culture with The Flow Genome Project.