You want your child to be strong enough to face the world — and open enough to come home when it hurts.
Human Values Collective gives parents a simple weekly practice starting at the dinner table to raise kids with courageous hearts.
If your child breaks a vase and you get angry, you've just taught them something: it's not safe to tell you the truth. The goal is a home where the hard stuff still gets said out loud.
Every Friday. One value. And questions to ask at Dinner This Week!
How It Works
You don't need a degree in moral philosophy to raise kind kids. You need a table and a place to start.
Step 1: Listen
Start with the Human Values Podcast. Real parents. Real teachers. Real conversations about what it looks like to raise kids who are open and honest.
Listen free on Podcast apps, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts!
Step 2: Practice
Get the Value of the Week, a free Sunday email with one human value and a family conversation card you can use at dinner this Sunday. No prep. Just some questions to start the conversation.
Every Friday. One value. And questions to use at Dinner This Week!
Step 3: Transform
Work together as a team to overcome the Sunday Dinner Challenge! A quest to do the value of the week for 8 weeks straight! Including resources, videos calls, and more tools to help you learn along the way and build a new healthy habit with your family.
One Dinner at a time.
What Parents Who Start Tell Us
"Our middle son, who's 13 and was always the quietest, has started to open up and share more than he ever has. He's even come to us about things he never would have before.
We have three kids, and the biggest growth has come from him. This is the one tangible thing I can say I'm truly proud of: our family shows up every week to talk about these values. Every single time, we're all happy and proud that we did it."
~ Angela, mom of three
"The progress has mostly been in me. Increased patience, increased creativity in mediating sibling clashes, and increased intentionality with my words and actions."
~ Sarah, mom of two
"This program reminded me to show up as a peaceful and loving presence for my son, and that's been everything. I'm truly grateful I stumbled upon it."
~ Raven, homeschool mom
Who's Behind This
Javier Payano
Founder & CEO
Javier knows what it's like to grow up in a home where nobody talked about the hard stuff, and to realize, as a parent and teacher, that silence is learned.
For the past decade, he's taught music and human values at a Chicago public high school, watched those practices transform classrooms, and brought them home to his own family. He trained at the Institute of Sathya Sai Education in Thailand, was recognized by 3Arts with a Make a Wave Award, and has worked with parents and teachers across Chicago to build exactly what he wished had existed when he was growing up.
Human Values Collective exists because he couldn't find it anywhere else, so he built it.
The Cost of Waiting
Every month without a values practice, your child gets closer to the age where they naturally stop telling you what's wrong.
Conversations based on good values now will strengthen the bridge between you and your child before the relationship is tested.
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