Now that we’ve completed our first “practice” month of the year, the reality of 2025 is truly upon us.

Over the past couple of weeks, you may have found yourself staring blankly at an inbox full of 5,000 new emails, waking tired children 2-hours earlier than they are used to, trying to remember where you left their lunch boxes over the holidays ("Is that a...banana?!), and rediscovering how it is possible to make an edible dinner in under 20 minutes when everyone arrives home tired and hungry after a busy day.

Wishing for a new way

As you come to terms with the routines and machinations of your family’s daily “normal” for 2025, you may be noticing that many of your beautiful New Year’s hopes, dreams and resolutions that seemed so plausible a month ago are starting to feel a little…strained.

Perhaps you had resolved that 2025 would be the year that you would finally stop shouting at everyone and become a less grumpy parent (a longing for inner peace and presence?). Or maybe you resolved that this would be the year your children would stop fighting with each other and become best friends (a wish for family harmony?), or start getting themselves ready for school on time (cooperation?), or start washing the dishes (support?), or stop playing so many computer games (balance?)...

During the bliss of a summer holiday, these aspirations may have seemed very reasonable, perhaps even attainable. The magical combination of time, space, rest, nature, and togetherness can work wonders for restoring family harmony and inner peace.

But once the hectic pace of “real” life creeps back in, Daily Family Life 2025 can start to look a lot like November 2024 all over again. All of a sudden, the shouting, lateness and screen flood back in; peace, presence and cooperation may seem painfully beyond reach.

Reclaiming your dreams for a more peaceful 2025

In our first newsletter of the year, we want to share some new beginnings we've introduced at Peace Talks in 2025 - along with some offerings that we hope could support you in reconnecting with your dreams for the year. These are some ways we would love to be able to support you to find a little more peace, joy and ease in your family life.

From Chaos to Connection

Our 9-week online course is designed to help parents move beyond daily chaos and overwhelm and (finally) bring about the peaceful family life they long for.

Much appreciation to the wonderful cohort of parents who joined us for the first trial of our programme last year. We have taken their feedback, revised the format and are now offering this course in three different formats, to match your unique circumstances and needs:

Self-study option: Ideal if you prefer learning at your own pace and enjoy working independently.
Community cohort option: Perfect if you want the support and companionship of like-minded parents as you work through the programme, along with guidance from Jorinde and Sally. The next cohort starts mid-March (faciliated by Jorinde), so we encourage you to sign up soon if you want to join us (limited to 20 people).
Group and Individual accompaniment options: We also offer options for groups who would like to do the course together, and for individuals or couples who would like one-to-one support, advice and guidance from Jorinde or Sally (contact us directly for more information - limited places available).

Here’s some more information about the course and a link to sign up. If you know someone who might benefit from this support, we would greatly appreciate you sharing this link with them!

Our new website and teaching platform

In order to provide our resources and teaching in ways that are really accessible to people (especially busy parents!) we have been transitioning to a new website and teaching platform. We now have the following resources available all operating from a single platform (Kajabi):

We’re appreciating the ease, simplicity, and efficiency of having everything in one place, and we hope this makes your learning experience smoother too. We welcome your feedback.

Feel free to respond to this email if you have any questions about our courses or offerings, would like some support, or just want to chat. We love hearing from you. :)

Wishing you and your loved ones a wonderful start to 2025!

Sally and Jorinde

P.S. On the topic of 5,000+ emails....it is really important to us that only people who genuinely want to hear about our work receive our emails. If, for any reason at all, you no longer wish to receive emails from us, please unsubscribe below. We will celebrate your choice! (You can always sign up again later if you change your mind :)