North Carolina
Becca Lane
Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach©
becca@littleroundschoolhouse.
Asheville, North Carolina
www.littleroundschoolhouse.com
Becca has been a teacher for 8 years, working within many educational models with children birth through high school. After going through training to be a licensed public school teacher, Becca realized she was pulled toward Waldorf education. After quite a journey, she and her husband opened a early childhood program on their property (in a yurt!) for children ages 3.5-6.5.
Many families desire to bring the rhythm and simplicity of the early childhood classroom into their homes. Becca has often recommended Simplicity Parenting as a way to help parents do this.
Becca desires to share the philosophy of Simplicity Parenting not only within this school community but with the greater community where she lives.
Becca lives in Asheville NC with her husband, two children, eight chickens, angora rabbits, dog, and cat.
Whitney MacDonald, M.Ed
Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach©
whitmac@nc.rr.com
Triangle Area, North Carolina
sakpassage.com
919 608 1114
Whitney has been a coach and educator for over twenty years. His teaching career began while coaching basketball teams in youth at-risk programs in Oakland, Ca. As a coach and tutor he saw the impact that a positive male influence could have on boys in their teen years. After receiving his Masters in Education and Waldorf teacher’s certification at Antioch University, he taught and coached for fourteen years at the Emerson Waldorf School in Chapel Hill, NC. During this time he and his wife, Amy MacDonald, CNM, developed and implemented a comprehensive health education program for the students of the school. Even as we developed a successful program Whitney saw more was needed than a school could provide. Good kids from good families were struggling in the transition into manhood. It was clear that boys were not getting the support they needed during this time of transition so he set out to find a better way. Out of this, Sakonnet Passage was born.
He grew up in Ohio and Massachusetts playing sports of all kinds and developing an on-going love of the sea and the outdoors. His favorite places to be in the world are on the ocean or in the redwoods. Whitney has lectured on education both domestically and abroad and he’s doing on-going work in China. He’s also been active in Hands-in-Peace, an international organization which brings young people from societies in conflict together for cultural healing through athletics and cultural sharing. He lives in Hillsborough, NC with his wife and two teenage sons and their dog, Stella.
Raelee Peirce
Certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader and Coach©
raelee@noblemother.com
Triangle Area, North Carolina
noblemother.com
919 370 4274
Raelee has a degree in Communication Studies with a concentration in family relationships from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She began her work with families in 1996. Raelee is passionate about helping families find their own compass to navigate their journey of parenthood. Her sense of humor, confidence, and strengthening encouragement allow mothers and fathers to find more clarity, self-discipline, and contentment from their parenting experience.
As a Certified Parent Coach with the Parent Coaching Institute of Seattle Pacific University, she began working from home, providing phone coaching sessions to mothers in 2006 . Her work with parents is influenced by Waldorf education and parenting philosophies that encourage parents to follow their own intuition. Authors she promotes include Kim Payne, Naomi Aldort, Aletha Solter, Ronald Morrish, and Sharifa Oppenheimer. In 2009, she became acquainted with Kim John Payne at her Waldorf school in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She became a certified Simplicity Parenting Group Leader© and a Simplicity Parenting Coach© in 2010.
She is the founder of noblemother.com; she provides Simplicity Parenting© courses in the Triangle Area in North Carolina, and she is the Outreach Coordinator with the Center for Social Sustainability with Kim John Payne, responsible for social networking including Simplicity Parenting© blog editor, on-line training development and support, and website maintenance. She resides in Chapel Hill with her husband, their 2 children in a multi-generational custom-built home with Raelee’s parents.