Cohli Compass

The village now makes house calls

Real 1:1 time with us, for families working out what this actually looks like. A month, a season, or a base you keep and travel around. Not the dream, the logistics. The school question, the money question, the what-if-it-all-goes-wrong question.

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Your call counts fully toward any Cohli cohort you join in the next 12 months.

Why We Built This

The question families keep asking us

"How do we actually do this?"

For three years, families have pulled us aside at dinner tables from Colombia to Portugal and asked us the same question. Not about the sunsets. About the logistics.

We have answered in fragments, on walks and in voice notes, usually while somebody's toddler was climbing us. Those conversations deserve better than fragments, and our calendars deserve honesty about what they can actually hold.

Underneath that question there is almost always a quieter one: what does this do to a child? Tiago grew up moving country every few years, first with his parents and his sister, then carried on by himself. So that one we can answer from the inside.

So we built Cohli Compass. Real time with us, prepared properly, written down, and yours to keep. It is not a course and it is not a funnel. It is the conversation we have been having anyway, with the care it should have had all along.

This might feel uncomfortable to start. That is part of the process. It was for us.

Lauren & Tiago

Before you decide

There is usually more than one version

Families arrive thinking the question is go or stay. It is almost never two options. There is the full leap. There is doing it for a fixed stretch and coming home on purpose. And there is changing the life you are in without leaving it. We do not think one of those is the right answer. We think most families have not let themselves look at all three.

What We Actually Talk About

The walls families keep hitting

Almost every family arrives stuck on one or two of these. Rarely all six, and never the ones they expected.

Education

The school question, and the unschooling doubts underneath it.

Money and remote income

What it actually costs, and how the work travels with you.

Healthcare and insurance

The unglamorous part nobody posts about.

Partner alignment

When one of you is ready and the other is not. This is the most common wall of all.

Community and loneliness

The thing families underestimate before they leave and feel most sharply after.

Legal, visas, taxes

Which questions to ask, and who to ask them of.

Who You Are Talking To

Two people, and the halves we each hold

Lauren

Sixteen years self-employed and location independent, as a massage therapist, nutrition facilitator and retreat chef, and a certified holistic health coach.

Eleven years building and holding communities, from small retreats to online groups of hundreds. She is Cohli's CEO.

On a Compass Call she takes education, rhythm, wellbeing, and the part that never fits in a spreadsheet: whether your family will actually be alright.

Tiago

He grew up moving country every few years, first with his parents and his sister, then carried on by himself. Averaged across a lifetime it comes to a new country every couple of years. So when you ask what this life does to a child, he is not theorising.

Four companies founded and one acquired, fifteen years in climate tech and social impact built from Lisbon to the Amazon, ten years investing in early companies, four languages spoken natively.

On a Compass Call he takes the money, the structure and the logistics: how the income travels, what it actually costs, and what tends to break first.

Between us, six years raising our own two children this way, cohorts on three continents, and one of us who has never known anything else. Most calls we do together.

What It Costs

Two ways in

Both are delivered by us personally, not by a team. That is the point, and it is also the limit.

Before you book: we open two call slots a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The booking page shows them in your own timezone, so there is nothing to work out in your head. You pick your slot and pay in the same place.

Compass Call

One deep conversation, properly prepared, whatever size the leap is

$240 USD

✓75 minutes with Tiago, Lauren, or both
✓We read your situation before we meet, so we do not spend the call catching up
✓A recording to keep, and to share with the partner who could not make it
✓A one-page next-steps note, written after and sent the same day

Book a Compass Call

Read the terms first, including how refunds and rescheduling work.

Leap Plan

The full year, mapped with you

$890 USD

✓Two 75-minute sessions
✓A written 12-month family roadmap: education, money, healthcare, insurance, questions for your lawyer, and community
✓Two weeks of WhatsApp voice-note support, answered Tuesdays and Thursdays
✓The Cohli resource vault, the documents we actually use

The Leap Plan is what a Compass Call can become. If a full roadmap is what your family needs, we will talk about it on the call and pick up exactly where we stopped.

Spots are few, and we hold only a couple of these each week so the cohorts stay the priority. If both fill, we will tell you when the next ones open rather than squeezing you in badly.

How It Works

Four steps, and you can do all of it in one sitting

Tell us about your family

A short form, about three minutes. Who is in your family, where the dream points, and the wall you keep hitting.

Pick a time that works

Our calendar opens straight after the form and shows the free slots in your own timezone. No email tennis across five time zones.

Pay for your call

$240 by card, taken securely by Stripe as you book. You will see exactly what you are buying, and the terms, before anything is charged.

We show up prepared

We have already read your form. You leave with the recording and a one-page next-steps note the same day.

And if we read your form and think a paid call is not what your family needs right now, we will tell you so and give you your money back. We would rather say that than take it.

Being Straight With You

What Compass is not

We are parents who have done this, not professionals you can rely on legally

We are not lawyers, accountants, tax advisors, or immigration consultants, and nothing in a call or a roadmap is professional advice. Where your plan touches visas, taxes, healthcare, or anything with legal weight, we give you checklists and the right questions to take to a qualified professional in your own country. We do not tell you what to do, because we are not the right people to.

What we can give you is six years of doing this with two small children, three continents of cohorts, and a fairly complete map of the mistakes. That is what you are paying for, and we would rather be clear about the edges of it now than have you find them later.

Questions

The things families ask before booking

No, and plenty of families will not. Some are heading somewhere we do not run cohorts, some want to do it entirely on their own, and both of those are good outcomes. Every family who goes nomadic makes this whole world bigger. The cohort credit exists because we would rather have you around our table, not because you owe us anything.

Lauren, Tiago, or both of us. Lauren tends to hold the education, rhythm and community side; Tiago tends to hold the money, logistics and structure side. Tell us on the form which of those weighs heaviest for you and we will make sure the right one of us is there, or both if it is genuinely both.

Not yet, honestly. Compass is new. We are running the first calls with families from our own community right now, and we will publish what they say once they have told us we can. We would rather show you nothing than show you something we made up.

Then you are in the majority, and this is one of the most useful reasons to book. Bring them to the call if they will come. If they will not, the recording exists partly for this, and it lands very differently than one of you relaying it over dinner.

The honest answer is that it depends on the child, and anyone who promises you otherwise is selling something. What we can give you is first hand rather than researched. Tiago grew up moving country every few years, with his parents and his sister, and chose to keep going as an adult. Lauren holds the education and rhythm side, and has spent years watching how children settle into a new place and what helps them do it. We will tell you what we have seen work, what we have seen go badly, and which questions to put to the people who actually know your child.

We hold a small number of slots each week, two, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and we run cohorts on the ground for months at a time, so it moves with the season. The booking calendar shows you the real next availability in your own timezone, so you never have to wait on us to find out.

Talk it through with us

About three minutes to tell us where you are. We read every one, and we reply in our own words.

Two slots a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays, shown in your own timezone when you book. You pick your slot and pay in the same place.

Talk it through with us Not ready for a call? The Village Post is free, and always will be. Before you pay, read the Compass terms. Five minutes, plain language.