The Village
A one-month family sabbatical

Raise your kids in a village.again.

A month at a resort campus 40 minutes from Singapore. A daily program for your kids. Real community for both of you. Your work, uninterrupted. One payment covers the lot.

5-minute form · no long-term commitment
Why families come

Everyone says it takes a village. Nobody tells you where it went.

You work from home, but the neighbourhood empties out by nine. The kids have activities, not friends-next-door. Most of your adult conversation happens in little rectangles on a screen. You're doing everything right — and it still feels like doing it alone.

66% of parents say parenting feels isolating and lonely. 79% wish they had a real way to connect with other parents. The Village is a month where you don't have to build that from scratch — you move into it.

The math

One payment, instead of eleven bills.

A month at home

  • Rent or mortgage bill #1
  • Groceries and the cooking that follows bill #2
  • The gym you keep meaning to use bill #3
  • Coworking passes or the kitchen table bill #4
  • Kids' classes, camps and clubs bill #5
  • Babysitters, when you can find one bill #6
  • Utilities, wifi, the rest bills #7–11

Each solved separately. None of them come with other families attached.

A month at The Village
  • Your family's accommodation on a resort campus
  • Three healthy meals a day, cooked for you
  • Gym, pools and daily fitness classes
  • 24-hour coworking with fast wifi
  • A daily program for the big kids
  • Drop-off childcare for the littles
  • Dinners with families who get it

One payment. And the village itself — the part you can't buy à la carte at home.

How a day actually works

Two days, one address.

You didn't stop being a professional. They didn't stop being kids. Here, neither of you has to pretend otherwise — your days run in parallel, five minutes apart, and end at the same table.

Your day
Their day
Deep work at the coworking space. The inbox doesn't know you left the country.
Morning
Big kids head to their program; littles to drop-off care. Both a short walk from your door.
A training session, a swim, lunch that someone else cooked. Then back to it.
Midday
Projects and field trips, not worksheets. Lunch with their crew.
Finish the workday properly — or take the afternoon off without planning a thing.
Afternoon
Pool time, games, the kind of play that needs other kids around.
Evening: everyone comes home. Dinner with your kids and the other families — cooked, served, and nobody's doing the washing up.
this is the part you came for

Rhythms, not rules — every family sets its own. This is what most days look like.

Built for both generations

Their month. And yours.

Kids 6–15

A learning residency, run by someone who's done it.

The big kids join Edventures Studio — a daily program of real projects, mentorship and field trips, founded by a mother who worldschooled her own two kids across four continents. They build things, present things, and make friends who get their life.

Littles 2–5

Drop-off childcare on campus gives the youngest a soft landing — and gives you your mornings. We'll walk through the details for your kids' ages on the call.

Parents

The month is yours too.

Whoever carries the family calendar gets a life of their own back: a real gym and daily classes, long unbroken work blocks, and — rarest of all — other adults at dinner who aren't on a screen.

One parent grinding on a deadline while the other finally breathes? Both patterns work here. Nobody is the accessory parent at The Village.

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This is not a school, on purpose. There are no transcripts and no desks in rows — it's a learning residency that pairs with whatever curriculum or schooling arrangement your family already uses. For a month, most families find that's exactly enough.

The sensible questions

You're the researcher in the family. Good.

"What about visas?"

The visa covers all of you.

Malaysia's DE Rantau nomad visa explicitly includes your spouse and kids under 18 as dependents. Many families simply use standard visit passes for a one-month stay. We'll point you to the right lane on the call.

"Is it safe? What if someone gets sick?"

Singapore is 40 minutes away.

Malaysia is among the safest countries in Southeast Asia, and the campus is a gated resort. For anything serious, Singapore — one of the world's best healthcare systems — is just across the bridge.

"How long are we signing up for?"

A month. That's the whole idea.

Cohorts start on the 1st of every month. Stay one month, extend month by month, or go home with a great story. It's a sabbatical, not a relocation.

What it costs

Comparable family programs abroad run $5,000–7,000 a month. The Village comes in well under — for most families, surprisingly close to what a month already costs at home.

Your exact number depends on your family's size, room setup and kids' ages, so we do the math together on a short call — line by line, against your current monthly costs. No surprises, nothing hidden.

From a Village family
"The kids ask when we're going back. Honestly, so do we."
A visiting family One month at the campus in Forest City
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How it works

Three steps. One month.

1

Apply

A 5-minute form about your family — ages, dates, what you're hoping the month does for you.

2

A short call

We check fit both ways, answer the researcher-parent's full list, and run your family's numbers line by line.

3

Pick your month

Cohorts start the 1st of every month. We handle the logistics; you book the flights.

Come for a month.

extend only if you love it

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