The Dandelion Garden

For Dandelion Program Graduates

A dedicated space for Dandelion Program graduates to stay rooted, stay connected, and keep growing.

The Dandelion Garden is the continuing home for mentors who have completed the Dandelion Program. It exists because the learning doesn't stop when the program ends and neither does the need for a community that truly understands the work you are doing and the challenges you are navigating. This is where graduates return to deepen their practice, stay connected to the Dandelion method, and continue showing up as mentoring leaders in the early childhood sector.

Join The Garden

What is The Dandelion Garden?

The Dandelion Garden is a quarterly online gathering space exclusively for graduates of the Dandelion Program. Facilitated by Sarah Moore, each session brings the cohort back together to reconnect with the tools and frameworks from the program and apply them to what is actually happening in your service right now.

This is not formal training. It is a space where people who have done the deep work together continue to hold each other, challenge each other, and grow each other. The conversations are grounded in The Dandelion Method and guided by what graduates are experiencing in real time.

Sessions will focus on:

Revisiting Dandelion tools and frameworks in the context of current leadership challenges
Shared reflection on what is working, what is hard, and what the work is asking of you
Peer mentoring and collective wisdom from a cohort who share your values and your sector
Staying connected to your purpose as a mentoring leader

Each quarter you’ll gain:

A grounded return to the Dandelion framework in practice
Real-world application of mentoring tools within your service
Ongoing connection to a community of leaders who understand the work
Support to keep showing up as the mentoring leader you have trained to become

Growing the Garden

Your Second Year in the Dandelion Community:

In the year after you graduate, you'll have the opportunity to facilitate one peer support session for the incoming Dandelion cohort, focusing on the tool or framework that has most influenced your practice.

It's a supported opportunity to put your mentoring skills into practice in a structured context, with preparation and guidance provided before you lead the session.

Stay connected to the work

Continue building capacity

Opportunity to take on mentees, and be mentored.

Support as you build a mentoring practice in your service.

Be part of the community.

The Dandelion Garden is designed for early education leaders and mentors who have done the program and want to stay genuinely connected to the work through continued practice, honest reflection, and the kind of peer support that only comes from people who have walked the same path.

As a member of The Dandelion Garden, you are part of something larger than a single program. You are part of a growing network of mentoring leaders who are changing the culture of early childhood leadership one service at a time. The Garden is where those seeds are tended.

Program format & investment

Program Schedule
The Dandelion Garden meets quarterly via Zoom, four sessions across the year.

What’s Included

Quarterly 60-minute online sessions with Sarah Moore and your graduate cohort
Access to a private Facebook group for ongoing connection between sessions
A curated resource library of Dandelion tools and reference materials
The Dandelion Approved badge - a recognised marker of your continued professional development and commitment to the Dandelion method

Investment

$25 per month or $280 per year. Join at any time.

Designed for Real Practice

The Dandelion Garden is about bringing your learning into your everyday practice as an early childhood professional, staying connected to the ideas, the tools, and the people that support you to lead your team and guide your practice.

The Power of Community

Mentoring leadership can be a lonely path, particularly when you are trying to shift culture in a service that is stretched, pressured, and under-resourced. The Dandelion Garden exists to make sure you never have to carry that work alone.

In The Garden you will find a circle of professionals who have trained alongside you, who understand the Dandelion framework from the inside, and who are applying the same tools in their own services. It is a space where the work is taken seriously, vulnerability is welcomed, and the collective experience of the cohort becomes a resource for everyone in it.

Together, you will continue to challenge assumptions, share what is working, celebrate growth, and hold each other accountable to leading in ways that are relational, reflective, and sustainable.

Grounded in the National Quality Standard (NQS)

Membership of The Dandelion Garden supports your ongoing professional development across key areas of the NQS:

QA4 – Staffing Arrangements: Continue building reflective, collaborative team cultures where educators feel genuinely supported and mentored.
QA5 – Relationships with Children: Sustain the trust-centred, emotionally attuned communication practices at the heart of the Dandelion method.
QA6 – Collaborative Partnerships: Lead courageous conversations that deepen relationships with families, colleagues, and community.
QA7 – Governance and Leadership: Embed reflective practice and conscious leadership into the ongoing culture of your service.

Join us in the garden.

The Dandelion Garden is open exclusively to graduates of the Dandelion Program. If you have completed the program and are ready to stay connected to the work, we would love to have you back.

Membership is open year-round and you can join at any time.

Fill in the form below to register and we will be in touch with your invoice and welcome details.

Not yet an alumni?

If you're interested but you haven't yet participated in one of our courses or done any coaching with Sarah Moore we recommend starting with a free discovery call so we can get to know each other a bit better and find an appropriate starting place for you.