We are so glad you’re here!

We are Donny & Joy Prouty, creative educators/professional artists living alongside our seven kids on a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest. We seek to share experiences with our children that ignite great curiosity and compassion within them for others & for the world.

What we’ve learned is that presence is not just as simple as being in the same room together. Parenting has been the most challenging thing we have ever done, but it has also offered us many opportunities to grow, learn & connect -when we’ve let it. 

Looking back, we realize our biggest perspective shifts have happened when we stop seeing our children as distractions from productivity and instead as powerful guides into wholeness.

For us… we have felt the isolation of trying to prioritize emotional health and self-expression as priorities in our family culture. (We also kinda felt like we never really fit anywhere.) Because of how crucial we have seen community support to be, we know that part of our sacred work in the world is to be gatherers of families seeking to do what we are doing but might be scattered all across the world. Presence heals. Becoming compassionately curious heals. Art heals. We just have to believe it is true and focus our energy on stepping forward in that belief!

We are so glad you are here.

You can get to know us a little better on Joy’s IG @joyprouty.