LAUNCH DAY · MAY 13, 2026
By LaKeya Dawn · Founder, Village Formation Collective™

The Village Formation Model
Where Families Become.

A coordinated formation ecosystem. HAVEN is the four-fold relational methodology within the Model. Books, guided journals, and practitioner cohorts for households, Anchored Adults, facilitators, and the becomings they walk beside.

Founded and authored by LaKeya Dawn
The Library

Ten Books. One Methodology.

Each book is part of the HAVEN™ ecosystem. Guided journals for becoming. Practitioner manuals for cohort delivery. Household binders for family-level stabilization.

Ages 4–7 · Foundational Rung · Belonging-scale Entry

Ready Set Grow!™ Book 1

I Can Try Again
The foundational rung of the Village Roots Publishing developmental ladder. For ages 4–7 learning the first emotional movement: "I am safe enough to grow." Mama Nae' walks every page with "Dear Heart." Papa Joe walks every page with "Dear Golden Nugget."
34 pages · 8.5" × 11" · Perfect bound · Matte cover · Color interior
$15.99 paperback
Emerging Adults · Guided Journal

Horizon Circles Fellowship Guided Journal™

Building What Comes Next Intentionally
A year-of-practice guided journal for 18–26 year-olds learning to build a life with reflection, planning, money awareness, relationships, contribution, and intention.
192 pages · 8.5" × 11" · Perfect bound · Matte cover
$29.99 paperback
Pre-teen / Early Teen · Guided Journal

Becoming Me™ Book 1

Learning Who I Am While I Grow
A guided journal for pre-teens and early teens. Identity, voice, friendships, confidence, dreams — practiced one honest reflection at a time.
72 pages · 8.5" × 11" · Perfect bound · Matte cover
$17.99 paperback
Teen · Guided Journal

Pathfinders™ Book 1

Finding My Direction
A guided journal for teens learning to build direction intentionally. Identity, dreams, relationships, responsibility, future-building — one practice at a time.
83 pages · 8.5" × 11" · Perfect bound · Matte cover
$19.99 paperback
Anchored Adults™ · Participant Guide

HAVEN™ Parenting Pathway

Participant Guide — A Pathway for Anchored Adults™
The participant guide for the HAVEN™ Parenting Pathway. For parents, grandparents, kinship caregivers, foster caregivers, and trusted adults practicing HAVEN™ at home.
68 pages · 8.5" × 11" · Perfect bound · Matte cover
$24.99 paperback
Facilitators · Manual

HAVEN™ Parenting Pathway

Facilitator Manual — Walking Anchored Adults™ Through the Pathway
Complete facilitator manual for delivering the HAVEN™ Parenting Pathway in cohorts, circles, and community programs.
117 pages · 8.5" × 11" · Perfect bound · Matte cover
$49.99 paperback
Households · 8-Week Binder

HAVEN™ Family Stabilization Foundations

8-Week Household Binder
An 8-week guided practice for households learning to install HAVEN™ as the relational ecology of family life.
141 pages · 8.5" × 11" · Perfect bound · Matte cover
$39.99 paperback
Practitioners · Facilitator Guide

HAVEN™ Family Stabilization Foundations

8-Week Facilitator Guide
Session-by-session facilitator guide for walking households through the foundational HAVEN™ family stabilization corridor.
33 pages · 8.5" × 11" · Perfect bound · Matte cover
$34.99 paperback
Practitioners · Facilitator Guide

HAVEN™ Family Stabilization Intensive

16-Week Facilitator Guide
The full formation corridor for practitioners. Sixteen weeks, group + 1-on-1 + household visits, the 8 Tracking System instruments. Licensable practice corridor.
46 pages · 8.5" × 11" · Perfect bound · Matte cover
$59.99 paperback
Anchored Adults™ · Guided Journal

HAVEN™ Anchored Adults™ Guided Journal

For the Adults Holding the Holding Work
A guided journal for the adults whose job is to hold others — without losing themselves in the holding. The five movements of HAVEN™ practiced inside the practitioner's own life.
106 pages · 8.5" × 11" · Perfect bound · Matte cover
$27.99 paperback

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Founder-Led Cohorts

Walk the Methodology Live.

Books carry the methodology. Cohorts deliver the practice. Three inaugural cohorts. Limited seats. Founder-led from the first session.

8-Week Licensing Cohort · ⚡ INAUGURAL PRICE ⚡

HAVEN Parenting Pathway Founding Cohort

An eight-week founder-led licensing cohort for practitioners, facilitators, coaches, educators, and family-service professionals seeking the right to deliver the HAVEN™ Parenting Pathway in their own work. Walk the methodology with the founder beside you, then carry it forward into the families and households you already serve.

INAUGURAL PRICE
The inaugural Parenting Pathway licensing cohort runs at inaugural rate in exchange for full participation in the outcomes documentation. Inaugural facilitators help prove what the methodology produces and earn the right to deliver it under their own practice.
  • 8 weeks of live founder-led group sessions
  • Founder coaching on facilitator delivery
  • Complete HAVEN™ Parenting Pathway Facilitator Manual included
  • Certificate of Completion + Foundations Facilitator credential
  • Right to deliver the Parenting Pathway in your own practice
  • Lifetime access to the alumni circle
  • Year 1 license renewal waived for inaugural cohort participants who complete full outcomes data delivery (a $497 value)
  • Inaugural cohort: contribute to the published outcomes documentation
Inaugural Price · 12 seats only
$2,499 per seat · Pay in 4 available: ~$625/payment
Second-cohort founding rate: $9,997 · Standard rate: $9,997
Reserve Inaugural Seat
Inaugural cohort starts: [DATE TBD]
8-Week Practitioner Cohort · ⚡ SECOND TIER FOUNDING ⚡

HAVEN Family Stabilization Founding Cohort

An eight-week founder-led cohort for practitioners walking households through the Foundations corridor of Family Stabilization. For social workers, DCFS caseworkers, family service providers, behavioral health professionals, and faith-rooted family practitioners. The methodology is denser and the data-collection load is higher than the Parenting Pathway. Pricing reflects that.

SECOND TIER FOUNDING
The inaugural Family Stabilization cohort runs at founding rate in exchange for full participation in the outcomes documentation. Founding practitioners help build the data infrastructure that licenses the 16-week Intensive Practitioner Certification corridor forward when it opens later.
  • 8 weeks of live founder-led group sessions
  • Founder coaching on practitioner delivery
  • Complete HAVEN™ Family Stabilization Foundations 8-Week Facilitator Guide included
  • Access to the 8-instrument Tracking System
  • HAVEN™ Foundations Practitioner Certificate of Completion
  • Continuing access to the Practitioner Network
  • Year 1 license renewal waived for inaugural cohort participants who complete full outcomes data delivery (a $997 value)
  • Founding cohort: contribute to the licensable outcomes documentation
Second Tier Founding · 12 seats only
$7,997 per practitioner · Pay in 4 available: $1,999/payment
Standard rate: $14,997
Reserve Founding Seat
Inaugural cohort starts: [DATE TBD]
5-Day Immersive Retreat · ⚡ STANDARD · PATRON TIERS ⚡

Find Your Inner Haven Retreat · Inaugural Cohort

Five days. Four nights. NOLA region. February 11–15, 2027. Eight women healing from trauma. My methodology walked one day per HAVEN movement — held around my circle tables with no head and no hierarchy, because I refuse to hand healing women a hierarchy.

I do not gatekeep healing with cost.
I priced this retreat with patron tiers because the women who need this most cannot pay market rate and I will not ask them to. Sustaining Sisters cover their own seat and sponsor a Scholarship Sister.
  • 5 days, 4 nights in the NOLA region
  • One day per HAVEN movement — held around the circle table
  • Founder-led, no head, no hierarchy
  • For 8 women healing from trauma
  • Inaugural cohort: February 11–15, 2027
Standard · Patron tiers · 8 seats only
Sustaining Sister · $5,000 · Covers herself + sponsors one Scholarship Sister
True Cost Sister · $2,500 · The true cost of the retreat per seat
Honor Sister · $997 · Pay-in-4 available
Scholarship Sister · Reserved seats for women fully held by the cohort
Reserve a Sister Seat
Inaugural cohort: February 11–15, 2027
The Inaugural Package

The Whole Ecosystem at Inaugural Pricing.

Fifteen inaugural seats. The complete ecosystem at one inaugural price.

The HAVEN Inaugural Package

Fifteen seats for Inaugural Members of the launch. Each Inaugural Member receives the full ecosystem at a single inaugural price — every book, an inaugural cohort seat, a retreat seat, a numbered limited-edition print from Drop #0, and lifetime access to the Inaugural Member Circle. Once the fifteen seats fill, the package closes forever.

  • All ten Village Roots Publishing titles — the developmental ladder plus the operational manuals and journal
  • One Inaugural Founding Cohort seat — Parenting Pathway (Inaugural Price) or Family Stabilization (Second Tier Founding) — package holder's choice
  • Year 1 license renewal waived for the cohort selected — conditional on full outcomes data delivery (up to $997 value)
  • One retreat seat at Find Your Inner Haven — February 11–15, 2027 — True Cost Sister tier
  • One numbered limited-edition print from Drop #0 — The Family Collection, illustrated by Aniya Brenee'
  • Lifetime access to the Inaugural Member Circle
  • Inaugural Members listed by name in the canonical archives of Village Roots Publishing — part of the documented history of how this work entered the world
Inaugural Package · 15 seats only
$4,997 inaugural
Standard rate: $9,997
Once the fifteen inaugural seats fill at $4,997, the package closes at the inaugural rate forever and steps up to standard pricing.
Reserve an Inaugural Seat
Founder-Led Experiences

HAVEN Retreats

For those ready to walk HAVEN™ in person — in body, not just in book. Three days. Intimate group. Founder-led. The methodology received slowly, with rest, in sacred space.

⚡ Inaugural Cohort · February 2027 ⚡
Find Your Inner Haven™

The 5-Day Immersive Retreat for Women Healing From Trauma

Inaugural Cohort · February 11–15, 2027 · NOLA Region

A five-day founder-led immersive for eight women — held in real rooms, in real time, around circle tables with no head and no hierarchy. The lived, immersive application of the HAVEN™ methodology. Where the wail finds its voice. Where ancestral veneration is held. Where you leave a recognized Inner Haven Sister.

The retreat moves through the five movements of HAVEN™ — one day per movement. Day 1 Holding Space (Oil-Making & Blessing Circle). Day 2 Affirming Identity (Wailing Ceremony). Day 3 Visioning Direction (Solo + Sister Walks). Day 4 Engaging Responsibility (Ancestral Veneration). Day 5 Navigating Independence (Recognition as Inner Haven Sister).

  • 5 days · 4 nights · 8 women only · founder-led throughout
  • Pre-retreat: Welcome call, Companion mailed, altar starter mailer, intake interview, virtual cohort call
  • Retreat: All lodging, all meals, airport transfer, ceremonies, materials, branded tote
  • Consecrated wrist tie — recognition as an Inner Haven Sister
  • 90-day post-retreat arc: Day 30 + Day 90 group integration calls, alumna Sister circle
  • Future Self Letter mailed back to you at Day 365
PATRON TIER PRICING — YOU CHOOSE WHAT FITS
Sustaining Sister $5,000
Covers your own seat + sponsors one Honor or Scholarship Sister
True Cost Sister $2,500
The actual cost of delivering your seat — no subsidy applied
Honor Sister $997
Healing-priced honor rate — partial subsidy by Sustaining Sisters · Pay-in-4 available (~$249/payment)
Scholarship Sister Invited
Reserved seats for women fully held by the cohort — apply via the waitlist
Join the Inaugural Cohort Waitlist
International · Biennial
The HAVEN™ Pilgrimage Retreat

Sacred-Site Consecration Trip

A biennial international pilgrimage retreat modeled on the founder's own consecration practice. Sacred-site work. Ancestral honoring. Body-marking rituals where culturally rooted. Walking HAVEN™ where the founder herself first walked it.

  • 7–10 days · intimate group · founder-led throughout
  • Sacred-site itinerary curated per destination
  • All HAVEN™ books + retreat workbook included
  • Meals + lodging + ground transport included
  • Certificate of HAVEN™ Pilgrimage Completion
$7,500–$12,500 per person · destination-dependent · flights separate
Join the Pilgrimage Waitlist
Certified Practitioners Only
The HAVEN™ Practitioner Retreat

Advanced Practice for Certified HAVEN™ Practitioners

An advanced retreat for graduates of the HAVEN™ Family Stabilization Practitioner Certification cohort. Refines the practice, deepens the integration, supports the work practitioners are already delivering in their own settings.

  • 4 days · certified practitioners only
  • Founder-led case consultation
  • Advanced Tracking System training
  • Practitioner Network continuing-education credit
  • Meals + lodging included
$2,800 per certified practitioner · 3-pay option available
Join the Practitioner Waitlist
Drop #0 · The Family Collection

HAVEN at Home

Limited-edition fine-art wall prints honoring the everyday holding work of historically underrepresented families. The first drop launches as the inaugural collection of the HAVEN™ at Home product line — illustrated by Aniya Brenee' Ruth, illustrator of Village Roots Publishing™.

The Family Collection is a numbered limited-edition drop. Each piece is signed, numbered, and fulfilled in batched releases as orders are received. Wall prints first — puzzles, apparel, and home goods to follow as the line grows. Each piece carries the everyday holding work that HAVEN™ is built to honor.

Inaugural Members receive one numbered print from Drop #0 as part of the Inaugural Package.

About the Founder

LaKeya Dawn

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LaKeya Dawn
Founder
Village Formation Collective™

A methodology born from a life.

HAVEN™ — the relational methodology of family stabilization — wasn't designed at a desk. It was lived first. Through three generations of Illinois public service. Through raising a daughter at seventeen and watching her become a placement worker in the same system her great-grandfather served for twenty-eight years. Through the kinship work that named what didn't have a name yet. Through every elder who poured into who I am still becoming.

"I am HAVEN. I was born into it."

Village Roots Publishing™ is the publishing house behind the methodology. The Village Formation Collective™ is the broader ecosystem the methodology is building toward — campuses, cohorts, families, and the trained practitioners who carry HAVEN™ into their own work.

Books carry the work to scale. Cohorts deliver the practice. Practitioner certification creates the network. And every family who walks any part of HAVEN™ becomes part of the larger Village this work is being built to hold.

This work was built for the historically underrepresented. Lived experience is part of what made it necessary. The structural absence of these services — for the families and communities the coordinated formation system has structured itself around but never structured itself FOR — is the rest of it. The Village Formation Collective™ exists because the coordinated formation ecosystem I am building did not exist for the people I built it for. Three generations of my own family held the work without infrastructure. The absence of services is the unspoken curriculum historically underrepresented families have been forced to graduate from.

I built the corridor because no one was going to build it for us.

For Organizations

License HAVEN For Your Agency.

For DCFS-contracted providers, FQHCs, behavioral health agencies, faith-rooted family services, school districts, and any organization delivering family stabilization or reunification work — HAVEN™ is available for organizational licensing.

Single Practitioner
$3,500–$7,500/yr

One trained HAVEN™ Practitioner + use rights for one practitioner. Includes certification, bulk book pricing, Tracking System access.

Single Site
$15K–$35K/yr

Site-wide rights, up to 5 trained practitioners, bulk books, full Tracking System access, quarterly QA.

Multi-Site / Regional
$50K–$150K/yr

All sites in one region/division, up to 20 practitioners, full Tracking System, quarterly facilitator support.

Enterprise
$200K–$750K/yr

Whole organization, unlimited practitioners, full Tracking System, custom training, direct founder consultation.

Start a Licensing Conversation

Every license includes Certified HAVEN™ Practitioners on your team, the published methodology, and the 8-instrument Family Stabilization Tracking System — the licensable evidence base that satisfies DCFS, Medicaid, Joint Commission, and FFPSA outcomes requirements.

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