Growing Together Begins With Relationship
Parenting can feel overwhelming.
There is no shortage of advice telling us what we should be doing, how our children should behave and what a "good" family should look like.
Rooted Together offers something different.
Rather than beginning with another list of parenting techniques, we create a space where parents can slow down, observe, reflect and explore their own family experience.
The emerging 7-Seeds Framework™ provides a set of lenses through which we can consider family wellbeing — not as a formula to follow, but as invitations to notice what may be happening within our relationships, routines and environments.
Whether you begin independently, join a group or work with Natasha one-to-one, you are warmly welcome here.
How would you like to walk with us?
🌿 Explore independently: 7-Seeds Free Resource
A gentle introduction to the Rooted Together approach.
Use the guide to pause, notice and begin reflecting on the relationships, rhythms and experiences within your family.
🌿Explore together: 7 Seeds Journey - Online Group
A small online group where parents can meet regularly to pause, reflect, share experiences and explore small possibilities for change.
Join a community in conversation.
🌿Explore one-to-one
Personalised online support, with local home consultancy where appropriate, to explore your family's rhythms, relationships, environment and everyday experiences.
🌿Stay connected
Rooted Together Newsletter
Occasional reflections, creative invitations and updates from the Rooted Together journey.
🌿 Meet us in nature
Walk & Waddle and Nature Explorers will return for in the Autumn/Winter season as Rooted Together face-to-face community work develops.
Find out more on Instagram: @rooted_together_network
WHO AM I?
I'm a Montessori Guide and creative practitioner with 20 years' experience working alongside children and their families.
The seeds of Rooted Together were planted during the many years of observing children, families and the environments in which relationships develop.
Over time, I began to recognise something that has increasingly shaped my practice:
parents don't necessarily need another expert telling them what to do.
They may need a listening ear, a thoughtful question, encouragement to pause and someone willing to look alongside them at what is actually happening.
Rooted Together has grown from this awareness and practical experiences.
My role isn't to have all the answers.
It is to listen, observe, facilitate, question and accompany while parents explore what may work for their particular family.
I am currently developing the Rooted Together Network through my Master's in Creative Practice with the Make Happen Institute and Plymouth University, using action research and reflective practice to explore how a relationship-centred approach might support family wellbeing.
My professional experience continues to inform this work through Montessori philosophy, early years practice, attachment-informed perspectives, nervous-system awareness, creativity practices and the potential that nature and community opportunities support connection.
Note: The intention of Rooted Together is not about placing all of these ideas into one prescribed parenting programme.
It is about exploring what becomes possible when we slow down enough to notice.
I'm still learning too.
Rooted Together is an evolving creative practice.
The families I work alongside, the questions they bring and my own reflections as a practitioner all contribute to its development.
Current Collaborators:
We value relationships with organisations and communities whose work connect to wellbeing, promotes healthier families, creativity, nature, education and stronger communities.
Developing relationships include:
Avalon Marshes Centre
Natural England
Creativity & Wellbeing Week
Make Happen Institute
Plymouth University
We welcome thoughtful opportunities to collaborate with community organisations, educators, health and wellbeing providers and local partners.
Have a Question?
Send us a note and let's start a conversation.