Why Abide?
Abide is a programme designed to nurture the holistic development of children—body, heart, and mind—beyond academics alone. Our approach emphasises connection, inner sovereignty, and healthy relationships with oneself, others, and nature. We help home educating families create a learning environment that fosters curiosity, creativity, and self-discovery, while supporting mindfulness and focus. Our goal is to inspire a love of learning that aligns with each child’s developmental needs and natural rhythms.
How do we raise resilient, wise, and kind children?
At Abide, this question is at the heart of everything we do.
We’d love to open this conversation with you.
Are you home-educating your child?
Curious about a learning approach rooted in connection,
compassion, and inner growth?
We warmly invite you to book a call to learn about our approach and services.
At Abide, children are encouraged to:
• Ask meaningful questions
• Explore different viewpoints
• Think critically, while growing in self-awareness and emotional maturity
We help children build resilience through life’s challenges, and understand that struggle is part of growth.
Technology is used mindfully, while we place deep value on:
• Rest and stillness
• Connection and intuition
• Time in nature
• Real-life skills—like growing food and cooking nourishing meals
Children learn to listen to their bodies with curiosity and care.
All of this is woven into daily life, making learning alive, grounded and joyful.
A Unique Learning Approach
Nurturing Young Minds with Love and Compassion
The aim of Abide is to sow seeds towards freedom. Our approach is centred on contemplative learning, fostering a process of transformation and the development of wisdom and compassion. We work in close partnership with parents, who we greatly respect as the child's first and most important teacher. Our aim is to support parents who choose to home educate their children by offering our wholesome curriculum and learning activities.
We aspire to nurture an all-round development of children: their body, heart and mind. It is important for us to offer our support to parents in educating their children with four overarching aims:
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To re-awaken our children to their innate goodness
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To develop in children the capacity for clear thinking, analytical skills, grounded in understanding a greater view of reality
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To nurture in children the capacity for self-reflection, awareness and mindfulness
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To keep children connected with awe and wonder as a healthy and beautiful aspect of their being
Nurturing Childhood
A Unique Journey of Children
We, at Abide, aspire to support families who take the less traveled road and home educate their children. Through our learning approach we can contribute to this journey of raising responsible, creative and kind human beings who can think for themselves. Abide offers an environment for home educating children to learn in a way that inspires them. Their hearts and minds are nurtured by the content of our curriculum and experiential learning, which encourages enquiry, questioning, and seeing things from different perspectives. Our aim is to support families in educating their children to be free thinkers, capable of actions that are driven by love, kindness and compassion for all.
In our curriculum, we integrate contemplative and transformative learning by bringing together understanding, experiencing, and integrating. Our approach gives equal weight to the intellectual (head) affective (heart), and doing (hands) domains. This way of learning places the emphasis on developing wisdom and compassion that is to be lived in the class and in our personal life.
Empowering Children with Wisdom
We believe that the fusion of sense of place, heritage, contemplative and mindfulness curriculum together with our experiential curriculum can help children thrive and feel empowered to progress on the path towards inner freedom.
Our Abide service is here to walk alongside you in your home education journey.
Please book a call or get in touch via email at admissions@abidingheart.education
