Welcome to The Village Formation Collective™

Pull Up a Chair.

There's a place for you here. Whether you're a parent, a young person, an Anchored Adult™, an educator, a practitioner, a researcher, a community leader, a policymaker, or someone simply searching for a different way to understand how people grow… welcome.

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Many diverse hands holding seedlings in a circle, planting roots together

Human beings were never meant to grow alone.

The Village Formation Collective™ exists because we believe belonging comes before becoming. The Village was lived first. The science came later.

The Floor · What the table rests on

Every table rests on something deeper than the tabletop.

Before we gather around it, it helps to understand what holds it steady.

4 Standards

  • Belonging-Centered
  • Trauma-Informed
  • Neurodivergent-Flexible
  • Gender-Inclusive, Identity-Safe

6 Frameworks

  • B.I.R.D.S.™
  • HAVEN™
  • C.I.R.C.L.E.S.™ Pathway
  • Love in Action™
  • RAM™
  • Congruence™
One truth, three languages

The same architecture, read three ways.

The Village Formation Model™
The lived methodology — how the Village holds and grows a person.
  • B.I.R.D.S.™
  • HAVEN™
  • C.I.R.C.L.E.S.™ Pathway
  • Love in Action™
  • RAM™
  • Congruence™
Scientific Domains
The evidence — where every discipline converges into one whole.
  • Physical & Earth Sciences 5
  • Behavioral & Psychological 7
  • Relational & Human 9
  • Systems & Organizational 11
  • Mathematical & Pattern 3
  • Cosmological & Astronomical 13
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Disciplines
Foundational Textual Tradition
The first 5 books — the Torah, the Pentateuch, the opening of the Christian Bible, the Tawrat of the Qur'an.
  • Genesis
  • Exodus
  • Leviticus
  • Numbers
  • Deuteronomy
  • Human Life / Life Itself
The table

The Village Formation Model™

Where it all meets. Lived experience, science, and the oldest wisdom become one prepared table — already whole.

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The Village Formation Collective™

The stewardship that holds the whole table — mission, partnerships, navigation, research, implementation. DBA: Village Care Connect™.

02

Village Roots Publishing LLC

The steward of the Theory, the Model, journals, certifications, licensing, curriculum, and facilitator resources.

03

Youth & Family Haven LLC

The implementation organization carrying retreats, fellowships, parenting pathways, family stabilization, and direct programming.

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The Chairs

The people. Every one placed on purpose. No one here has to earn a seat.

Three Expressions · One Village

The work is carried through three interconnected organizations.

The Village Formation Collective

The Village Formation Collective™

DBA · Village Care Connect™

The mission, community partnerships, navigation, research, and implementation of the Village.

Village Roots Publishing

Village Roots Publishing LLC

The steward of The Village Formation Theory™ and Model™ — journals, certifications, licensing, curriculum, and implementation tools.

Youth and Family Haven

Youth & Family Haven LLC

The implementation organization carrying retreats, Horizon Circle Fellowship™, the parenting pathways, and Family Stabilization™.

The Launch Wave · 10 titles

Books for every chair at the table.

From earliest childhood through anchored adulthood — plus practitioner guides and family stabilization tools.

Pay your way. Checkout accepts all major cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Cash App Pay — or split any purchase into interest‑free payments with Klarna, Afterpay, or Affirm (buy now, pay later), right at checkout.
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Early Childhood

Ready Set Grow!™ Book 1 · I Can Try Again

A guided journal for ages 4–8 — planting resilience, self-trust, and growth in the youngest learners.Read more

Ready, Set, Grow! Book 1: I Can Try Again is a guided journal for ages 4–8 — the first in a vibrant early-childhood series planting the seeds of resilience, self-trust, and growth in the youngest learners. Full-color, interactive pages and a simple, repeatable refrain give little ones space to color, respond, and carry one quiet truth through every hard moment: I can try again.

For parents: this is the journal you fill in together — the book that turns “again” from a discipline word into a love word.

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Tweens & Teens

Becoming Me™ Guided Journal

The Becoming Me Guided Journal is for the young person quietly in the middle of figuring it all out — and for the parent who wants to wal…Read more

The Becoming Me Guided Journal is for the young person quietly in the middle of figuring it all out — and for the parent who wants to walk beside that journey without taking it over.

It invites tweens and teens into a reflective practice that honors who they are right now AND who they're growing into. Pages aren't filled with rules — they're filled with questions, space, and gentle scaffolding for identity formation that respects every reader's pace, story, and inner life.

For parents: this is the journal you wish you'd had — and the one your child will let you see, sometimes, on the days they want to share.

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Young Adults

Pathfinders™ Book 1: Built for More

Pathfinders Book 1: Built for More is for the late-adolescent or young adult who knows they were made for something — and is starting to…Read more

Pathfinders Book 1: Built for More is for the late-adolescent or young adult who knows they were made for something — and is starting to see how big "something" can actually be. It's also for the parents, mentors, and elders cheering them on.

This guided journal grounds vision in real life: identifying what you're being built for, naming who your people are, and learning the steady rhythms that take dreams from inspiration to direction.

For parents and mentors: this is the journal you give the young person you believe in — the one that says, I see what you're carrying, and I trust what you're building.

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Fellowship

Horizon Circle Fellowship™ Guided Journal

The Horizon Circle Fellowship Guided Journal is for emerging adults building lives in real time — finishing degrees, starting families, t…Read more

The Horizon Circle Fellowship Guided Journal is for emerging adults building lives in real time — finishing degrees, starting families, taking first jobs, choosing communities, becoming the adults their childhood selves were quietly counting on.

This journal isn't trying to give you answers. It's trying to give you company. Through reflection prompts, small practices, and space to think out loud on paper, it walks alongside the work of becoming an anchored adult — one belonging-centered page at a time.

For the parents and mentors in their corner: this is the journal you give the young adult you're still rooting for. It says: you have a horizon, and you don't have to walk toward it alone.

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Adults

Anchored Adults™ Guided Journal

The Anchored Adults Guided Journal was written for the adult holding a lot — parents, kinship guardians, professionals, mentors, elders —…Read more

The Anchored Adults Guided Journal was written for the adult holding a lot — parents, kinship guardians, professionals, mentors, elders — quietly asking the same question every day: am I still becoming, or am I just managing?

This journal is the reflective companion that says: you're allowed to keep becoming. You're allowed to grow. You're allowed to have a journal that doesn't tell you to do more — it asks you to see what's already true.

For your family: when an Anchored Adult has language for what they're carrying, the people they hold get to breathe easier. When you stabilize you, the people who love you get to grow too.

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Parents

Parenting Pathway™ Participant Guide

The Parenting Pathway Participant Guide is for the parent ready to grow into the parent their child actually needs — not by being perfect…Read more

The Parenting Pathway Participant Guide is for the parent ready to grow into the parent their child actually needs — not by being perfect, but by being intentional. Designed for a Parenting Pathway cohort or a personal reflective practice, it walks you through a relational, eight-week pathway built for real parenting, in real households.

This isn't a parenting "how to." It's a parenting "how me" — a guided pathway that helps you see yourself first, so that when you show up for your child, you're showing up as someone who knows themselves.

When a parent is grounded, the child gets to be a child. The work you do here travels into every interaction with your child, into your home's emotional climate, into how your family grows.

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Practitioners

Parenting Pathway™ Facilitator Guide

The Parenting Pathway Facilitator Guide is the field-ready companion for facilitators leading Parenting Pathway cohorts — everything you…Read more

The Parenting Pathway Facilitator Guide is the field-ready companion for facilitators leading Parenting Pathway cohorts — everything you need to hold an eight-week cohort with fidelity, warmth, and skilled relational care.

It walks facilitators through the canonical structure: weekly objectives, session flow, key teaching moments, group reflection prompts, troubleshooting guidance for tender moments, and clear fidelity checkpoints — plus language for how to hold a room of parents with dignity, even when the room gets quiet.

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Cohort Participants

Family Stabilization™ 8-Week Participant Guide

If you're the one holding everything together — the schedules, the meals, the worry at 2 AM, the quiet hope that your kids will turn out…Read more

If you're the one holding everything together — the schedules, the meals, the worry at 2 AM, the quiet hope that your kids will turn out okay — this guide was written for you.

Over eight weeks, it walks you through a gentle, guided pathway that meets you where you actually are. Each week gives you reflections, soft exercises, and small household practices that help you breathe, regroup, and build the rhythms that change a family's whole story over time. No judgment — just language for what you've been carrying, and a path forward that honors your pace.

When a parent has language for what they're navigating, the child feels it. The work you do inside these pages travels through your household, into your child's becoming. You stabilize you. They get to grow.

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Practitioners

Family Stabilization™ Facilitator Guide

The Family Stabilization Facilitator Guide is the field-ready companion for facilitators leading Family Stabilization cohorts — everythin…Read more

The Family Stabilization Facilitator Guide is the field-ready companion for facilitators leading Family Stabilization cohorts — everything you need to walk families through an eight-week stabilization journey with fidelity and warmth.

It carries the canonical structure: weekly objectives, session flow, key teaching moments, group reflection prompts, sensitive-content guidance, and clear fidelity checkpoints — plus the relational language and held-space practices the work actually requires when families bring their real lives into the room.

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Families · Standalone

Family Stabilization Binder™

The Family Stabilization Binder was built for the parent who's been doing it all and is ready for the home itself to start carrying some…Read more

The Family Stabilization Binder was built for the parent who's been doing it all and is ready for the home itself to start carrying some of the weight. It's the practical companion to the 8-Week Participant Guide — where reflections become routines, ideas become rhythms, and the household starts holding your family together with you.

It's not a planner or a chore chart. It's a relational, household-level instrument that gives your family the structure of belonging — the kind children feel without you having to explain it.

And for you — the parent who's been holding it all — the Binder is a mirror that reflects back what's working: your steady hand, the rhythms you've already been building, named and honored.

The Village Bundles

Bundles

Collections gathered together — more of the Village in one place.

The Developmental Collection

Do you know a family where every person could open a book made for exactly where they are in life? The Village runs on a developmental arc — birth to…Read more

Do you know a family where every person could open a book made for exactly where they are in life? The Village runs on a developmental arc — birth to end of life — with one for each stage: ages 4–8 (I Can Try Again), ages 8–13 (Becoming Me), ages 13–17 (Pathfinders), the emerging adult, ages 17–26 (Horizon Circle Fellowship), and the Anchored Adult — grown in the body by age and biology, and becoming anchored in their own life and in the lives of others (Anchored Adults). One for every stage of a life, under one roof.

Get the bundle · $129.95

The Implementation Collection

When a family is falling apart, there’s always someone they call — the one who stays calm and holds the room. That might be you. This is what equips…Read more

When a family is falling apart, there’s always someone they call — the one who stays calm and holds the room. That might be you. This is what equips you to guide the work: both complete collections — Parenting Pathway and Family Stabilization, participant guides, facilitator guides, and the binder. You don’t carry the work for them; you help the family carry it themselves. Because parenting and stabilizing were never two jobs — you can’t raise a family without a stable, anchored adult. And when you’re ready to lead it, certification comes through the cohort — where the cost of this collection comes right back to you: join both cohorts and the full $265 is credited to your tuition; join one and half comes off. Get the tools in your hands now — nothing paid twice. Join a cohort →

Get the bundle · $269.95

Anchored Adults™ + Parenting Pathway™

What would it look like to do your own becoming and your parenting on purpose? Two separate works that together make a person whole: the Anchored…Read more

What would it look like to do your own becoming and your parenting on purpose? Two separate works that together make a person whole: the Anchored Adults Guided Journal, where you meet yourself with curiosity, intention, and truth — and the Parenting Pathway Participant Guide, where you carry that steadiness into how you show up for your child. One turns you inward to grow. One sends that growth forward. Because the parent who does the work is able to show up for their self, their child, their home, and their community.

Get the bundle · $78.98

Anchored Adults™ + Family Stabilization™

Can you see yourself steadier — and your whole house steadier because of it? Two separate works that together make a person whole: the Anchored…Read more

Can you see yourself steadier — and your whole house steadier because of it? Two separate works that together make a person whole: the Anchored Adults Guided Journal, where you tend to your own becoming with intention and truth — and the Family Stabilization Participant Guide, where that inner work becomes something you steward for your whole family. One is the journal to help you return to yourself. One is the gift you steward forward by stabilizing your family.

Get the bundle · $78.98

The Complete Village Library

You’ve met them all now — every stage, every seat, from the child learning to try again to the Anchored Adult holding a whole family steady. This is…Read more

You’ve met them all now — every stage, every seat, from the child learning to try again to the Anchored Adult holding a whole family steady. This is the whole arc in your hands: all 10 launch titles, one shelf. For the family that wants to grow together, the church or organization ready to carry the work, or the person who looks around and sees 5 people who each need a different door in. Come on in — the whole 10-title launch collection is waiting for you.

Get the bundle · $374.90
LaKeya Dawn
From LaKeya Dawn

I built this because I needed it.

“I know what it's like to lose faith and find it in community and fellowship.”

LaKeya Dawn is a founder, author, human-development practitioner, and lifelong believer in the power of belonging, healing, and everyday becoming. Her work was not built only through theory. It was lived first — shaped through hard seasons, loss, restoration, parenting, mentoring, community work, and years spent walking alongside children, youth, and families navigating real life.

She is the founder of The Village Formation Collective™, Village Roots Publishing LLC, and Youth & Family HAVEN™ LLC — organizations and pathways designed to strengthen belonging, steadiness, leadership, and healing across generations.

Her work centers one core belief: people grow best when they feel safe enough to belong, honest enough to grow, and supported enough to keep becoming. It all stays rooted in one guiding truth: Love in Action™.

I am here. You are here. Let's get to work.
— LaKeya Dawn

“You are not broken. You are tired. You are holding what nobody trained you to hold — and what nobody has helped you set down.”
— LaKeya Dawn, Founder
Begin Your Journey

Whether you're here to learn, partner, become certified, license the Model, explore our books, or simply discover another way of understanding human growth…

You're welcome here.

Pull up a chair. There's a place for you in the Village.

Who we serve

There's a chair here for you.

The Village holds different rooms for different people. Find yours.

Why “Dignity”

Dignity is the door, not the floor.

Dignity is an inherent birthright. It is the door into the world and the door into The Village. You belong before you produce, perform, or prove. Wherever you see “Dignity” in this Village, the door is held open without proof, performance, or apology.

Come do this work together

Find your pace. Branch where you need.

Letters From the Village

The Living Front Porch.

Weekly letters from LaKeya, the team, and the Village itself. Pull up a chair. Stay for the conversation.

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