You love Charlotte Mason’s vision, but somewhere along the way it became something to measure up to rather than a way to live. You have faithfully applied it in your home and in your teaching. Yet you are not experiencing the rest you long for.

You have not failed. Something else is at work, and it is far more common than you might think. Somewhere between the vision that drew you to Charlotte Mason and the reality of your ordinary daily life, you began comparing yourself with the life you had imagined, instead of resting in the life God has given you. This is not

a character flaw; it is a deeply human tendency, and it can be healed.

Learning to Live is a fourteen-week formation course, including a two-week break, that addresses the source of the strain: it is not your methods, but your loves. Drawing on Charlotte Mason’s philosophy, the Christian concept of Ordo Amoris, and the attentive work of beholding Christ, it forms a mother’s inner life. Rather than asking her to do this alone, it invites her into cooperation with the Holy Spirit, the true Educator, who forms from within what no course, curriculum, or resolution can produce from without.

Each week spreads a feast before you: picture study, poetry, time in nature, living books, habit formation,

Lectio Divina, and so much more. Some of these are the very practices Charlotte Mason gave her students at Scale How. Slowly, through beholding and becoming, the comparisons and ideals that have driven you begin to loosen their grip, and your attention turns towards the beauty of Christ. You will not do this alone, but in community.

“We warm ourselves at each other’s fires, and glow with the heat we get.” — Charlotte Mason

A mother's inner formation overflows into the atmosphere of her home, whether she intends it or not. That atmosphere shapes her children, and what shapes her children shapes future generations.

By the end of this course, you will not have a new system to maintain. You will have begun a sturdier, more peaceful way of living, one that keeps growing long after the course is over. 

"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me — practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you."
— Philippians 4:8-9