MISSION

Together, we’re building a connection-based community that centers care. By building loving containers to rest into where we all have the freedom to create, play, learn, question and explore, we’ll practice what it truly looks like to care for ourselves, one another and the earth.

We commit ourselves to environmental and social justice, self-work and growth, acceptance, presence and mindfulness, and interdependence with one another and the earth.

VALUES

Care: We are here to weave a community of interdependence, love, kindness and care. We take care of each other, we lean on each other, and we show up in community.

Connection: We value building strong connections with ourselves and children, with each other, and with the wider community, recognizing our interdependence as well as honoring our unique selves and paths. As Dan Siegel describes it, our kids (and us!) need to feel seen, safe, soothed and secure in community. That is true connection.

Growth: We create a space of exploration and experimentation in which all members of the community, both children and adults, can continually learn from one another and the world. We commit to learning and growing together as parents. This is a place for us to practice the self-introspection and self-work needed to show up as the parents we hope to be for our kids.

Mindfulness: We practice being present and mindful with our children and with one another in order to experience the fullness of life and our connections to each other and the world. As my 6 year old describes it, we are practicing "bringing our minds and bodies to the same spot" so that connection, true, deep connection, can take place

Justice: We are creating a progressive, diverse community that centers the lived experience of our BIPOC members, our LGBTQ members, and our members from other marginalized communities. We center social justice with anti-racist and anti-bias practices, and learn and unlearn together how to dismantle systems of oppression. When we inevitably make mistakes, we practice restorative justice and make amends while preserving the dignity and humanity of every community member.

Acceptance: We meet each other with acceptance and love. While we uphold our values and practice our principles together, no one will do this perfectly--it’s just not possible! So we consciously practice together, knowing that all of our ancestral and tempermental constellations are different and we may make different decisions along our parenting journeys.

PARENTING GUIDING PRINCIPLES

These principles were created collectively by the Wild Roots Community in San Francisco and are lovingly adopted by Wise Earth Collective.

• We believe children are whole beings that need to be honored, respected and heard.

• We value building and maintaining strong connections with our children.

• We believe in the importance of secure attachments and healthy interdependence.

  We understand the power dynamics in a parent-child relationship and actively practice power sharing to disrupt oppressive hierarchies

• We value a full range of emotions, understand emotions can teach us about ourselves, and believe the release of big feelings is the body’s natural emotional repair process.

• We believe that all acting out behavior is communication of a need and/or developmentally appropriate.

• We encourage individuality and value differences in personality, temperament, interests and self-expression.

• We value and foster our children’s innate wonder of and connection to the natural world.

• We recognize that the primary work of childhood is child-led, imaginative play.

• We believe children know themselves best.

• We listen to and respect the pace of each child’s growth and learning.

• We recognize the importance of touch in regulating and showing care to our children.

• We believe in modeling and encouraging an inclusive environment for our children.

• We believe in supporting children through conflict resolution involving restorative justice.

• We develop consciousness and resist biases about gender, race, skin color, class, culture, sexual orientation, etc.

• We foster a passion for social justice in our children.

• We trust our children and our own instincts over mainstream culture.