Walking Together Down the INTENT Pathway
The Nia Membership is for parents and educators who are ready to move beyond inspiration into structured implementation.
Grounded in the understanding that every child enters the world with their own innate genius, NIA provides a full year of personalised 1:1 support to help you apply the INTENT Framework with clarity and confidence.
We walk beside you as you transform your parenting or professional practice so you are fully equipped to nurture the children in your care toward their highest potential.
The Pathways
The Pedagogue Pathway
Equipping educators to apply INTENT meaningfully in learning environments.
We support you to develop intentional, reflective, and powerful pedagogy grounded in deep understanding rather than routine or reaction.
The Parent Pathway
Supporting parents to nurture their children with intention at home.
We help you align your parenting with your values and your child’s developmental stage so your home becomes a space of clarity, consistency, and growth.
Parent Plus
Alignment changes everything.
When parents and caregivers share language, vision, and structure, children experience stability and coherence.
With the Parent Plus pathway:
- You receive structured parent coaching
- Your nanny or educator enrols in the Pedagogue Pathway
- We provide professional supervision aligned with your family’s goals and values
- We support alignment across home and care
Consistency builds confidence.
Confidence builds agency.
The 12 Week Initial INTENT Programme
The first 12 weeks guide you through the first full rotation of the INTENT Spiral.
You will:
- Engage with structured learning content
- Complete guided reflective and practical tasks
- Meet regularly for 1:1 coaching sessions
- Receive unlimited message and email support
This is deep, intentional work supported at every step.
The INTENT Spiral
A Practical Roadmap for Intentionally Nurturing Children
1. Identify
Clarify your philosophy and vision.
We support you to define the kind of person you are nurturing and the values that guide your parenting or practice. Through structured reflection, you develop a clear vision that informs your decisions with confidence and purpose.
2. Neutralise
Release assumptions and see the child clearly.
We help you step back from unrealistic expectations and inherited beliefs. You learn to observe without comparison and meet the child where they truly are, recognising their individuality and pace.
3. Theorise
Develop a working understanding of the child.
We guide you in observing patterns, strengths, interests, and challenges. Together we build a thoughtful understanding of how this child learns and develops, shaping informed next steps
4. Execute
Act intentionally and monitor impact.
We support you to design practical strategies and environments aligned with your philosophy and the child’s needs. You learn to track progress and adjust with clarity rather than guesswork.
5. Negotiate
Adapt in collaboration.
We help you refine your approach as the child grows and identify where additional support may be beneficial. This includes strengthening collaboration with caregivers, educators, and professionals to ensure alignment.
6. Transform
Commit to ongoing reflection and growth.
We support you in embedding this process long term. Through continued reflection, you strengthen your confidence and intentionally nurture the child’s evolving potential.
The INTENT Spiral moves parenting and education from reaction to intention, with sustained guidance throughout.
The 9 Month Follow Up
Change requires consistency.
After the initial 12 weeks, you continue with:
- Bi monthly check ins to deepen your work through the INTENT Spiral
- Ongoing unlimited support
- Long term implementation guidance
Plus all the benefits of the Umija membership within the Nia Onnim Research Institute:
- Monthly virtual seminars based on the INTENT Pathway themes
- Quarterly members meetings to shape NORI’s development
- Full access to the NORI Library including lectures, research, tools, and resources
- 20% discount on NORI products and services
- Access to working groups and evolving professional networks
- A place within a growing global community
- Along the INTENTional parenting pathway, we work together to identify a specific parenting philosophy, built on your values as parents, using this to develop a personalised plan for parenting your child in a way that empowers them to realise their full potential and achieve greatness.
- The INTENTional pedagogy pathway is designed for educators at all levels to identify, develop, articulate and enact pedagogies. Research shows that qualifications, and more specifically well-developed pedagogies, have the most significant impact on the quality of the education and care children receive.